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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8864798" data-attributes="member: 58172">[USER=6807152]@Scribe[/USER], I agree jargon is jargon. Its meaning is its technical usage. The nice problem to have, is D&amp;D is becoming culturally mainstream. Now the primary meanings of the term &quot;race&quot; − and problematically charged meanings − interfere with its very narrow gaming nomenclature. It is easy for many people to misunderstand D&amp;D when seeing the term &quot;race&quot;.Yeah, and that makes the term &quot;race&quot; even less useful and less self-explanatory.Some fun anecdotes.I have a good friend who is American. His dad is Irish, and his mom is Polish. My friend is a priest. He has two brothers, one is gay and one is straight but infertile. His parents expected no grandchildren despite having three sons. My priest friend eloped with a nun and got married. Heh, his very Catholic parents have mixed feelings about this.Boston surprised my brother and I. It is probably the most segregated city I have ever visited, but it seems to have nothing to do with race. Italians have their neighborhood, Irish theirs, &quot;Wasps&quot; theirs, Black Americans theirs, Jamaican Americans theirs, and so on. We went with our friends (Canadians from India and Sri Lanka) to a pub. It was all White college students there, but we didnt think much of it. We heard music upstairs, so decided to go dance. Upstairs was completely Black American, over a hundred easily. We had never seen this kind of self-segregation before. Two rooms of the same place, completely different. But it was about ethnic self-identity. It didnt feel like &quot;race&quot;. Anyway, we had a great time. Of all of the groups in Boston, the Blacks felt the most like &quot;normal Americans&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 8864798, member: 58172"] [USER=6807152]@Scribe[/USER], I agree jargon is jargon. Its meaning is its technical usage. The nice problem to have, is D&D is becoming culturally mainstream. Now the primary meanings of the term "race" − and problematically charged meanings − interfere with its very narrow gaming nomenclature. It is easy for many people to misunderstand D&D when seeing the term "race". Yeah, and that makes the term "race" even less useful and less self-explanatory. Some fun anecdotes. I have a good friend who is American. His dad is Irish, and his mom is Polish. My friend is a priest. He has two brothers, one is gay and one is straight but infertile. His parents expected no grandchildren despite having three sons. My priest friend eloped with a nun and got married. Heh, his very Catholic parents have mixed feelings about this. Boston surprised my brother and I. It is probably the most segregated city I have ever visited, but it seems to have nothing to do with race. Italians have their neighborhood, Irish theirs, "Wasps" theirs, Black Americans theirs, Jamaican Americans theirs, and so on. We went with our friends (Canadians from India and Sri Lanka) to a pub. It was all White college students there, but we didnt think much of it. We heard music upstairs, so decided to go dance. Upstairs was completely Black American, over a hundred easily. We had never seen this kind of self-segregation before. Two rooms of the same place, completely different. But it was about ethnic self-identity. It didnt feel like "race". Anyway, we had a great time. Of all of the groups in Boston, the Blacks felt the most like "normal Americans". [/QUOTE]

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