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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 9734934" data-attributes="member: 22779">Well, I'd say in the real world, without any different species (that we know of) on the planet, we still manage a pretty broad range of cultures.A culture is defined by geography as much as anything.  A group of sentient beings (mixed species) that lives in a far north, cold, tundra environment will develop a very different culture from a mixed group in a tropical environment.  The species that make up that group will have some impact, sure - like I said, the presence of halflings might impact cultural views of luck, for example - but, the idea that a group of humans in a given environment must have a different culture than a group of elves and a group of halflings and a group of dragonborn, all from the same general geographic area isn't really needed.Culture needs to be tied to more than just biology.  Biology is probably the least interesting way to develop a culture, IMO.  Oh, the elves have to be snooty tree huggers because that's what elves are.  <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937.png" title="Person shrugging    :person_shrugging:" data-shortname=":person_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />  I'd much rather that the people of the Great Forest - a mixture of a half a dozen different species, have developed the culture of the Great Forest.  Those people who live next to the Really Interesting Lake a short distance away, have developed their own culture.  Human cultures are not defined by biology by any real means.  Why would elves or dwarves or halfligns have an "elf" culture or "dwarf" or "halfling" culture while only humans have a bunch of different cultures?  I realize that's the traditional method of presenting races, but, again, a lot of that is simply based on 20th century thinking of the time where it was a lot more ... fashionable(?) to belive that cutures were defined by the color of your skin and people that look different from each other don't mix.</blockquote>

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