A World of....

So our trip in your world has came to an end...

We need to get back to our world, which we realized, isn't that different from yours!

Social problems and cultural intolerance are something we cant simply get rid of...

These are the consequences of being an inhabitant of a World of...

Conflicts between cultures

I was looking at the year of 2008 and I saw the problem that Francis Baconmeister with the Night Elves:

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This is just another example of people from a culture trying to impose their cultural aspects into another culture. The father of Francis Baconmeister Junior made a restaurant of meat, but the vegans night elves didn't like it and processed him. Why can't the humans eat meat if they want? Why did the night elves think their culture was better than the humans'? Why do people force others to do things according to a culture and don't let them have the possibility to choose?

Strange cultures...

I was still looking at some old things... and I found a really strange culture from 2006:



As I always defend, we should accept other cultures! But do they really accept ours? Well, if they do, it doesn't look like... Punting gnomes isn't a very good way to show the acceptance of our culture! And they even say, in a shamelessly way, that the game they play doesn't make them aggressive!
Poor gnomes...

There is/was still one person with a good heart in my world...

I was looking at some things that happened in my world during 2007 and I found that:



It was nice to see that there was someone with a good heart trying to make people see that inside we are all the same. Although I think that he was probably wrong when he said that people should realize that there are no races, because that would mean that all the cultures would be homogenized into one. That wouldn't be very good, since it's nice to have a large number of different cultures. Maybe what he wanted to say was that people should accept the other cultures...

The Influence of Money in a Culture

I was born in a small town in Coldridge Valley. The people who live there aren't rich and they don't have much knowledge. You can't find very good items on the shops there, as well.








This is the town where I was born.

But if you look at the biggest city in Dun Morogh, Ironforge,you will see that the people there (with more money) have more knowledge and better shops.
The biggest problem with that is the snowball effect that it creates (poor people gets poorer, because they can't sell much of the insignificant items they have, and the richest people get richer, since they have success in selling most of the things they have).
This snowball effect can degrade a culture because of the created poverty.

If I were a rich gnome...

Ethnic Groups

An ethnic group is a group of people who identify themselves, or are identified as such by others, based on similar cultural or biological characteristics. As the concepts of race and nation, the ethnicity was developed, in your world, during the European colonial expansion. This happened when mercantilism and capitalism promoted global movements of people. However, nation-states always include people who have been excluded from the project (building the nation), or recruit workers from outside its borders. These people are typically ethnic groups.

Consequently, members of ethnic groups tend to conceive their identity as something that is out of the history of the nation-state. This identity is often expressed through "traditions" which are transmitted through generations.

Now I am going to show you the trailer of a movie whre you can see the presence of ethnic groups in our world:

Small Worlds...

Today I was thinking… If we look very close, we can see that in a city we can find a small world!
Really!

I was traveling through Draenor, and I reached the mighty city of Shattrath. This city was built in the ruins of an ancient temple, and we can find in it, the most diverse population you can imagine.




In this city we have refuges looking for a hideout, a place to get far from the diverse conflicts that are happening in our world. You can find races that usually fight with each other acting friendly, tired of fighting and now battling for something that really does matter: Peace.

That is what we found in my world…

In yours?

America… indubitably the most representative example in your world. An amazing mixing pot of different cultures. The home of people with a dream… A dream rarely achievable…



In Shattrath they are together fighting the war. In America, they are the war creators!

So as you can see, in my world, there are good intercultural relationships, where we do learn things from each other, using our differences in a good way.

Not like what happens (many times) in your world, where you mix your races and the result is a bloodthirsty society!

My message today: if you want peace, you may mix cultures. If you want war, stay alone. You are already bad enough, don’t get even worse!

War

War is a conflict between two or more organized groups. War can occur between countries or between other smaller groups like tribes or fractions from the same country. In both cases the groups can be isolated or form alliance.

Civil war is a type of war where a conflict provoke a wave of other conflicts, organized between factions or groups from the same country.

Expressions like economic war and psychological war is a type of war where weapons are not used.
The conflicts and wars happen because of religious, ethnic, ideological, economical, and territorial issues, or just because some group want something that belongs to other group.

The following video shows the rise of the death knight in order to conquer the world:

Cultural Expression: Dancing

In my world we have many ways to express our cultures. One of them is dancing!
We have many dances in our world, each one characterises a race. We usually like to dance because, since it's a body language, it helps us to express our feelings. Most of the times we dance to socialise, but, sometimes, we do it in a competitive way! Other times, we dance only to "throw away" the anger inside of us... The important is that it isn't a reason to fight.



HEY! It looks like the same happens in your world!

Racism

Racism is the way of thinking where people give importance to the existence of superior races.

Racism exists when people think that physic appearance, different characters and cultures are superior to another’s. Racism is not a scientific theory, it is just a pré built theory where the biological differences are not understood and people discriminate each other.

Shadism is one type of racism which is closely related to general racism.It is the belief that people whose skin is a darker shade of Black are better than those with lighter shades of Black. Shadism is distinct from classical racism in that it applies to people of the same color skin, but of different shades, discriminating against one another, as opposed to people of different color skin.

This kind of ideology was already used to justify slave and genocides which have occurred during the history of humanity and should be stopped at all costs.

On the next video u can see a parody about racism:

Difference between religions

Do religions have to be enemies forever? Our world deserves something better than the hostility between the different religions.

Not always is easy to understand the differences between religions and cultures.

That is why we should explore some ways to built relationships and trust between beings. The religious differences are sometimes used to support violence and hate. Part of the problem is that all the different religions consider themselves superior to their rivals.

On the last post my partner talked about his culture, now i am going to talk about mine...

Interculturalism

Interculturalism is the integration between cultures, helping their relationships and integration. Their relation is based on respect by the diversity of their costumes and believes.
This expression define a movement which has as point of view the respect for other cultures because it defends that all the cultures are the same (none is discriminated).

The interculturalism has the following objectives:
- Understand the pluralist nature of our society and our world.
- Promote the dialog between cultures.
- Understand the complexity and richness between the different cultures.
- Collaborate in the search for answers for social (economic, politic and ecologic) problems.

There is still no culture who has reached its total development. That´s why the dialogue between people from different cultures is a way for them to develop. The interculturalism propose that people should learn how to live in a pluralist world.
It is necessary the help of everyone in order to build a peaceful and respectful world.

Until today there was no culture who have reached it, neither in our world or in yours.

The next video is just an example of the differences between cultures…

Which one is THE real? Mine or yours?

In my world, as in yours, there are several different religions.

Many gods are worshiped by different races.

But you know, in my world we can’t find good examples of something that we can easily see your world: Holy war.

Yup, In my world everybody fights, but it is very rare to see a battle fueled by religious beliefs.
Some worship the Titans, others the Light, others the Shadow, others the Nature, others the different Elements… There are ALOT of beliefs in my world.

But they don’t fight because of that… They don’t HIDE the true reasons that make them to move! They are not as YOU!

There is a lot of tolerance about this topic in my world. TOLERANCE, the word I’ve been selling since my first post.
You don’t belive?

Just watch those two draws. First, there is the representation of the Night Elves Goddess, Elune.

The second one is a sketch of the Tauren’s Earthmother.



Do they look similar to you?

Well they are pretty the same Goddess, they are the Goddess of Nature!

Do you think Taurens and Night Elves do care about it? No! They just accept each other’s points of view!

So, my message: Be tolerant with other’s beliefs.

White and... Purple?

Night elves, Blood elves, Nagas, Satyrs… what do they have in common?


Well, technically they are all elves!

They are all descendents from the Night elves. Either by corruption (Satyrs), or forced mutation (Nagas), or by migrations (Blood elves), they changed their physical appearance and created new cultures, their own cultures.

On that process they got apart from each other, and once brothers in arms, they turned in war between each other! Why? Intolerance.

I will pick up one example: the relations between Night Elves and Blood Elves.

The Night Elves banned some members of their society due to the incorrect use of magic they have been practicing so far. Then the Blood Elves migrated to another continent, and made their own rules, their own culture.

Nowadays, they are enemies, and they thing about each other with disgust.

Similar to your world. Racism is very present on it.

The most significant example I can use is the hatred that there had been between white people and black people. The wars it originated, the black slaves, the butcheries… Humans have much more problems dealing with that than the Elves!

So my message today is: You are a Human and you are a Human, you are black and you are white. So? You are the same, you don’t see white cats fighting with black cats just because their fur color…