Re: [GZG] Gzg-l Digest, Vol 10, Issue 1

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se are all valid reasonings and definitely make more sense. I have
considered them all, to be sure, I just wish writers/authors would also
do the same. I know in my RPGs players get miffed because I don't do it
like they do in the movies/TV.

-Eli

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From: davebill <davebill@clear.net.nz> 

> Eli said: 
> 
> > One element that almost never seems to be represented in any sort of

> > fiction 
> > is diversity in alien species. Just about everything you see, seems
to 
> > have 
> > all the aliens of a particular species speaking the same language,
having 
> > the same culture, the same philosophies, etc. This happens I'm sure,
but 
> > it's way to common in sci-fi to be realistic. 
> 
> There is three possible reasons for this; 1) Laziness on the part of
the 
> writer or film/television maker; 2) The aliens encountered all come
from one 
> subsection of the alien race - eg in both Tuffleyverse and Traveller
2300 
> various ethnic groups colonise various regions of space. If an
outsider were 
> to turn up and run into the ESU block or the Chinese Arm, what 
> extrapolations would they draw for all humanity, based on the sample
they 
> had encountered? 3) Before a race can tap enough resources to expand
into 
> space, some form of Globalisation of the home world must happen. So,
not 
> only do smaller/weaker languages and cultures become absorbed, but
"racial" 
> characteristics become blurred as artificial boundaries such as state 
> borders become obsolete and people move and mingle more. Perhaps
variations 
> remain within the resulting blended culture, but to an outsider they
are too 
> subtle to catch. So, on Earth, we have everyone speaking English,
watching 
> American style movies, working in a form of state-regulated
capitalism, and 
> looking vaguely like East Asians or Chinese, or statistically, anyway.

> 
> David 
> 
> 
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