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Re: CHAT: I saw it! I saw it! I saw it!

From:Hawksinger <hawksinger@...>
Date:Saturday, June 12, 1999, 21:19
Barry Garcia wrote:

> I always found it odd that in science fiction, all aliens from the same > planet are one homogenous culture. They all speak exactly the same way =
and
> dress the same. Its like an unwritten rule that diversity is something > only humans have. >=20
I think its just laziness. I am guilty of it too a certain degree too. Almost everything I know about Nowapan is about the Nowans, the other great cultures, for example, the Mr=E9, are little more than shadows. --=20 Brad Coon hawksinger@fwi.com listowner battleship-l http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Gorge/7264/battleship-l.html http://www.ipfw.indiana.edu/east1/coon/web/index.htm (home pg. et al.) http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Gorge/7264 (outdoor and prim.skills) http://members.tripod.com/~Hawksinger (wine and whisky pgs) Civilize the mind and make savage the body. (Chinese proverb)