Xenophobic or simply humanocentric?
-- Ben Doom
Programmer & General Lackey
Moonbow Software, Inc
: -----Original Message-----
: From: Haggerty, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 2:27 PM
: To: CF-Community
: Subject: RE: The Grand List of Overused Scie nce Fiction Clich�s
:
:
: Re: Alien Races being uniform
:
: 1) Aren't the members of the human race often depicted as being
: the same way? For instance, encounters are usually made by way of
: a vessel, which is somewhat compartmentalized, role-based, and
: everyone is in a uniform. The exceptions are the wayfarers, the
: people who are in transit or who the members of the vessel come across.
:
: 2) The other side of this is that aliens are not depicted in any
: meaningful way. Star Wars movies, for instance, show us lots of
: aliens without ever telling us much about them. Greedo was a cool
: dude, but we are never told much about him or his people.
:
: None of this really bother me, but it is does seem a little
: xenophobic when you think about it.
:
: M
:
: -----Original Message-----
: From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 2:16 PM
: To: CF-Community
: Subject: RE: The Grand List of Overused Scie nce Fiction Clich�s
:
:
: One thing I don't agree with is the mark against alien cultures
: that have little variety. Maybe I'm being picky, but I see
: nothing wrong with an alien society that is _very_ uniform. As
: far as we know, our race (and it's wide variety of people) is
: rare in the universe. That being said though, it is kind of silly
: when _every_ alien race is depicted like that.
:
: -rc
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