Re: meeting of minds

Kristian Jensen wrote:
> Well, perhaps - and I could be wrong - the main reason I indulge in
> this activity is because I have what several call: "Identity
> Crisis".
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> So perhaps creating a fictional nation is my way of searching for or
> creating an identity. I think my case of identity crisis is severe.
I suspect alot of us have at least some degree of that.  I, too, have
never felt like a part of my culture.  The Faithful Ones' culture
contains some elements of what I wish existed in our culture -
especially stability.  The females stay in the group of their birth
their entire life (indeed, the word for female means literally "one who
stays"), and the males leave their home-group @ puberty, and join a
male-group, with whom they remain forever, tho the male-groups are
nomadic (the word for male means literally "one who goes").  They're by
no means utopian, however, as I intend them to be realistic, thus they
have some practices that I don't like.  I suspect a lot of other
conlangers feel this way, that their conculture, in some ways, reflects
their ideals and beliefs.  The humans of Ternovo (the planet where the
Faithful Ones live) also have elements of what I respect, and elements
of what I don't respect, but I haven't done very much with them, I only
know that they colonized Ternovo as a religious colony, containing what
I call "democratic theocracy", a government which I only have the
faintest ideas about, but which combines democracy and theocracy.
Perhaps a division of power between an elected government and the
church?  I also know that there is widespread discrimination against
Native immigrants in the Human Republic, made worse by the fact that,
for some unknown reason, the birth rate has been lower than the death
rate for the past 2 or 3 centuries among Humans, but not Natives,
causing a slow decline in the Human population.