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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 9724430" data-attributes="member: 177">I have no idea who feylin or garter folk are, so I cannot speak to them, specifically.  But, I can try to address some of the core question here, and I'm going to try to do so without reading the 11 intervening pages that already came up today - so please pardon if I cover ground someone else already has...A major issue here is that the "race" we think of for humans is, biologically speaking, pretty much nonsense.  We have been taught that people with different skin colors and small differences in facial features are a different "race", and we attribute all sorts of differences to being of different races, with no actual biological differences behind that.  For humans, "race" is a social construct. Which means that all the different human behaviors we see among people are not race-biology based - they are all cultural or individual.So, while we want to say, "well, hey, this species is biologically different, so they'll have different behavior" - if that behavior difference is on the order of differences we see among humans, claiming that difference as based in biology is hard to swallow.Why are we heck-bent on trying to peg behaviors on biology, when culture gives us as broad a palate to work with, while avoiding bad armchair psychologist takes on how biology impacts sentient behavior?</blockquote>