Worldbuilding is all fun and games when you’re in the ‘Lets give the elves bug pieces cuz it would look cool’ and ‘This city’s town gaurd consists primarily of lightning mages’ stage, but then you get into the ‘But what impact would on the culture and interpersonal relationships would being able to connect to a temporary hivemind have on this race’ and the ‘What type of agricultural habits and clothing do they wear, given their environment and unique body structure’ stage
I don’t get why people hate immigrants so much… Like they’re literally just… People… From another location….
My partner is an immigrant from the UK and still holds his citizenship. At a recent event, an acquaintance talked about how many “immigrants” get jobs over “Canadians” and they shouldn’t allowed to be management (which my partner is). My partner reaches across the table and goes “Hi, immigrant here!” and she goes “Oh I didn’t mean immigrants like you…” And you can so tell they just mean “brown people” or “Asian people” but they pretend it’s about jobs and shit.
That’s the same with my family. We were war immigrants from the soviet union and now live in Germany. Now the syrians are here because they also have war, and people keep asking me why I’m defending them so mercilessly. And when I tell them that my family (that is still alive) has gone through the same bullshit. But they insist that both scenarios are completely different. They’re not different, you’re just racist.
