> I don't know about you but I do feel a lot safer living under a human
leader
> where he at least understands basic human needs.
The question is wether the elf (or dwarf; or troll; or human) slavers will
(quindly) ask you (or your leader) if you mind being enslaved...
There is something that puzzles me about statements like the one I just
quoted: Why do you always think that the oppressed are humans and the
oppressors ER? In third era Glorantha the opposite would be more likely
(I'm not saying this is what happens...).
Humans would want to have dwarf slaves for their skills; elf slaves for
their fertily magic and plant lore; trolls for their force.
Think of it: a society where you don't have food shortages thanks to elf gardens; your dwarfs conceive to you beautifull and complex homes with all the commodities you may think about; and all the hard work is done by trolls (which will live on any shit you throw at them)... And when any of them tries to rebel, you just throw at them the other two!
>>Sometimes it's even better if you
>>keep your culture: like in RW, when the dominant and the dominated ar
>>of the same race, the dominant can prefer not to enforce their culture on
>> you to keep the line that separates both peoples well delineated.
>
> Name one culture where this was so.
You know what the word gheto means (in Portugal we had "Mourarias" and
"judiarias" until the Renaissance - moorish and jew ghetos respectively).
Look at gypsies. Look at askenasi jewish communities in easter Europe until
the second word war.
Certainly, after some centuries the frontiers start to get more and more
fuzzy. But our current RW pattern of extensive cross-cultural fertilization
was not the norm not even in our RW. Most of the time, when you put people
from two different cultures in the same space the extent of mixing can
vary, but it takes centuries, sometimes millenia until they become one.
Sometimes it never happens.
> I think you'll find that in nearly
> all cases, the culture of the dominated has changed dramatically with
> respect to things that offend the culture of the dominator.
It can go both ways: when the visigoths gained control of the Iberian
peninsula they become heavily "romanized". The recent pike discussion in GD
remembered us that SDC had nomad leaders. I suppose that when the nomads
settled, they acquired most of the cultural traits of the sun domers.
In most of south America, religious practices combine a mantle of
catholicism with undercovered afro-based practices.
Once more, the things are not black or white. When two peoples live togheter you will find a range of behavior going from the purest to the more mixed. Since in Glorantha we are not dealing only with different cultures but with different species, I think it would be easier to have different people living togheter and keeping their cultures than in the RW.
Sergio
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