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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7635787" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>The danger of this approach is that you might define away the race, so that the ultimate result is that all races are just humans with different bumps on their foreheads. You'll end up with more homogeneity and not less, and you'll risk banishing the alien from your setting and making everything familiar.</p><p></p><p>At the very least, some thought ought to be given to how a race with lives ten times that of humans might shift their view on material possessions a simple practical matter. For example, no possession you have is going to last longer than you are, and any possession which could last longer than you becomes proportionately more valuable. So I would think that this would tend to encourage behavior which to humans would seem extreme and irrational, such as placing relatively little value on most material possessions, but placing great cultural values on those few artifacts of living that tied generations and groups together. Certainly at the least elven bankers could afford to take a much longer view of finances than their human counterparts. </p><p></p><p>I'm not suggesting those are the only interpretations, but I generally am impressed when at least some thought has been given to how very different being different might make one. I can't imagine my elves doing banking at all. Coins in particular owing to their free tradability provoke a very different reaction on the average elf than they do the average human. An elf in my setting is prone to looking at coin, which could have passed through any number of unknown hands, with the same squimishness you might look at a soiled food container or other inherently tainted object. (I could make the obvious not Eric's grandma friendly analogy, but I'll limit myself to letting you imagine it.)</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>American here. Americans actually are loud on average. This is because Americans culturally stand further apart when talking to each other than Europeans do. The result is that Americans naturally project to be heard, while Europeans by cultural inclination tend to want to get very close when talking - so close that it suggests an uncomfortable physical intimacy inappropriate to the setting or relationship. The reverse stereotype which as some basis in fact, is the European friend or relative that is inappropriately affectionate with a lot of hugs and even kisses inappropriate to cultural norms in America. Are such stereotypes a universal representation of the individuals from the two cultures? No, but they do seem to have some basis, and it is not - as each group sometimes imagines of the other, that they are just rude. The false stereotype of both Europeans and Americans is that they are rude. Loud is actually pretty reasonable though. (Rude is however IME a true stereotype of tourists regardless of cultural background.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7635787, member: 4937"] The danger of this approach is that you might define away the race, so that the ultimate result is that all races are just humans with different bumps on their foreheads. You'll end up with more homogeneity and not less, and you'll risk banishing the alien from your setting and making everything familiar. At the very least, some thought ought to be given to how a race with lives ten times that of humans might shift their view on material possessions a simple practical matter. For example, no possession you have is going to last longer than you are, and any possession which could last longer than you becomes proportionately more valuable. So I would think that this would tend to encourage behavior which to humans would seem extreme and irrational, such as placing relatively little value on most material possessions, but placing great cultural values on those few artifacts of living that tied generations and groups together. Certainly at the least elven bankers could afford to take a much longer view of finances than their human counterparts. I'm not suggesting those are the only interpretations, but I generally am impressed when at least some thought has been given to how very different being different might make one. I can't imagine my elves doing banking at all. Coins in particular owing to their free tradability provoke a very different reaction on the average elf than they do the average human. An elf in my setting is prone to looking at coin, which could have passed through any number of unknown hands, with the same squimishness you might look at a soiled food container or other inherently tainted object. (I could make the obvious not Eric's grandma friendly analogy, but I'll limit myself to letting you imagine it.) American here. Americans actually are loud on average. This is because Americans culturally stand further apart when talking to each other than Europeans do. The result is that Americans naturally project to be heard, while Europeans by cultural inclination tend to want to get very close when talking - so close that it suggests an uncomfortable physical intimacy inappropriate to the setting or relationship. The reverse stereotype which as some basis in fact, is the European friend or relative that is inappropriately affectionate with a lot of hugs and even kisses inappropriate to cultural norms in America. Are such stereotypes a universal representation of the individuals from the two cultures? No, but they do seem to have some basis, and it is not - as each group sometimes imagines of the other, that they are just rude. The false stereotype of both Europeans and Americans is that they are rude. Loud is actually pretty reasonable though. (Rude is however IME a true stereotype of tourists regardless of cultural background.) [/QUOTE]
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