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Post by Insano-Man on Oct 2, 2018 13:26:31 GMT -5
This topic is a child of the Humanity article directory.EVERYTHING, EVERYWHEREThere is no human culture to rule them all. There is no heritage that stands over others. Just as it was on Earth, there's a culture, subculture, or microculture for every two people on the planet. Japesters, Clonestoners, Knobblies, Jiggesies - Set's got a million different outlooks per square kilometer. Layered over top are a billion more local flavors, from nomads, towns, and mercenary outfits putting their own spin on it. Looney customs and traditions work their way in when no one's looking. SECTIONS- Earth Influences- Xenophobia & Cultural Synthesis
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Post by Insano-Man on Oct 2, 2018 13:26:47 GMT -5
EARTH INFLUENCES
Just as it was on Earth, all the old classics hold true to this day. There are enclaves of Polish, Filipino, and Canadian descendants all over. American English and British English still duke it out for the top spot on language rankings. People still celebrate Halloween, Christmas, and even Cinco de Mayo. Towns hold onto old Earth history as foundations for their customs and traditions. Nationality and citizenship might not have much hold these days, but the legacies they forged are still going strong in the moral fabric of mankind.
At the same time, Earth is as much myth and legend as it is a basis. Most towns that practice old Earth traditions don't have any idea where they started. About half or more of all the humans on the planet don't even know Earth existed. Some of them look at the big empty spot and settle on the notion that Set is Earth. Not a single person can disprove them. Only the Loonies have any amount of hard data on the subject, and even they're not sure. Nobody knows what happened to the Blue Marble. Nobody's all that interested in finding out.
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Post by Insano-Man on Oct 2, 2018 13:28:16 GMT -5
XENOPHOBIA & CULTURAL SYNTHESIS
Xenophobia is a funny thing on Set. Humans hate aliens. Aliens hate humans. Ask anyone planetside and nobody'll disagree. Only spacers are mellow enough to get along with the greys and the frogs - and that's mostly because they don't have a choice. Plenty of people try to blame the Loonies for it, but the truth is that they're only a tiny part of the equation. Down on the ground, between glass sirens, meat monsters, and crabs, there's one, golden rule most humans and aliens live by; if it doesn't look like you, it'll eat you.
What makes xenophobia a funny thing on Erf is how it all works out in the end. Most aliens grow up around human culture in one way or another. If they're not dealing with the five-fingered pinkies on a daily basis, they're digging through the leftovers of the societies they built. They learn English, adopt human sayings and slang, and start forgetting where it all came from. Redworlders call on God and Jesus Christ for their go-to interjections. Boglanders dine on hamburgers and hummus. Unionites are the biggest break of them all; for every unionite with a geometry lesson for an avatar, about ten more use holographic humans.
The same happens in reverse, but not often. Mob rule means aliens have to huddle together and declare a kind of cultural independence just to hang on to their own customs. When humans start mingling with those enclaves, they adjust. They pick up alien languages as trade tongues and learn the faux pas to keep deals moving smooth. They settle down nearby in famines and hardship, integrate as best they can, and lose their heritage over generations. Redworlder culture is the usual suspect, and the greys' tendency to hold fast together makes it all the more likely. Others are usually too unusual, but that doesn't make it impossible. People who grow up around the less human of aliens tend to be dangerously strange individuals.
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