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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9742216" data-attributes="member: 18">To add to the post re: identity:You could possibly argue that Andor suggests (thought never outright states) that not having any clear cultural identity makes it easier for you to get sucked into either being part of the fascist regime, but even ol' Syril Karn does have a cultural identity, albeit a weak one, he's a <s>New Yorker</s> Coruscanti - but he seems to somewhat reject that because of his truly awful family. It does seem like a lot of the Imperials either never had cultural identities or have replaced them with "Imperial" (a phenomenon we still see in authoritarian groups today sometimes - especially ones that aren't localized fairly narrowly). But it also seems to suggest not having a clear/strong cultural identity might make it easier for you to fully commit to the broader revolution/rebellion, for presumably similar reasons. You won't go "Oh good Ghorm is free, time to go home and sit around in a very soft sweater", you'll keep fighting because the rebellion is what you have. So I think it's kind of a balanced equation?(Also I feel like an insane person that a STAR WARS show of all things is making us have this discussion lol. If you told me we'd get a show like Andor 20 years ago, I'd have said you'd got overly obsessed with WEG D6 Star Wars and needed to get real, it was gonna be all Jedi, Sith, Mandalorians and the like all the time from here out!)</blockquote>

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