Intergalactic Summit

now isn't that a question XD

Sorry, Ms. Kim, but I don't really see what you mean.

I believe that ethnicity alone doesn't affect who someone is on a biochemical level. Sure there are differences in medicine in how certain drugs react to certain peoples, but deep down in a person's core of being, I don't think it matters. The culture which raised you, the experiences you have, and the people you include in your life have a far greater impact than any genetic difference. Why people seem so insistent on hating each other simply because others look different is just... confusing to me. I hold no ill will towards anyone else simply because of how they look, but instead for my impressions from how they act.

Or, well, at least I try my best, anyway.

Im sorry, I think I wrote a bit too much, I will try to make my points more clear.
1. No peoples are born equal
2. Physical appearance alone doesn't matter
3. Greater physical difference depicts more greater difference in genome and thus deeper difference in biochemistry and thus abilities

And rampant inbreeding leads to drooling idiocy. Eventually. Or possibly insanity.

Ethnicity is another label created to simplify the classification of peoples backgrounds. People of a certain ethnicity often hold certain beliefs, cultures, and common experiences. However ethnicity is a flawed label because there are individuals with certain apparent ethnicities who have different upbringings and cultures than stereotyped. An example would be Minmatar slaves not holding "Minmatar" beliefs due to an Amarr upbringing.

People can identify with an ethnicity different than what others perceive of them. A brutor could be considered an ethnic Gallente by their peers if they were raised in the Federation while the brutor returns to Matar and re-identifies with the Minmatar ethnicity. Another example; Freedom fighters perceiving slaves of Minmatar descent as ethnic Minmatar when the slaves consider themselves a part of the Amarr ethnic group.

Both the perceived and perceivers perceptions matter though. Ethnicity matters in weird, irrational ways. Basically it doesn't matter besides when it matters. Politics and other human interactions often have ethnicity as a source of strife, with certain ethnicities distrusting others due to their perceptions. It, like all humam creations, is imperfect and has many bumps that cause confusion.

Hope that adds something to your answers.

-Eran

Edit: It's important to note that ethnicity is not always the same as "bloodlines". Ethnicity refers to social groups, not necessarily genetics (though it could also refer to genetics).

The Apocryphon says that all who are of the faith are Chosen; the Amarr Scriptures say the Amarr are Chosen. You seem to think the former is true and the latter false. But truth is that they are both true.

The Amarr are like wayward children; they have gone astray in liberalism. But God has not revoked their status as Chosen, and He will over time call them back to the true faith.

The people of the Minmatar Republic on the other hand God has given over to destruction, all of them except those few who have joined the true faith; they are to be hunted down, slaughtered, blooded, and sacrificed unto the glory of God. This He has revealed to me, Nauplius, a prophet of God unto the Empyreans.

So you see, ethnicity very much does matter to the red God — not so much to those of us already in the true faith, but certainly to those outside of it or who have strayed from it.

One without heritage has little to live up to. Complacency takes root. Idleness.
One without history has nothing to prove. The emancipated weak may hold their branches high, but their leaves will never grow as big as the ones who's roots reach deepest.

Heritage and ethnicity are far greater motivators than seeking new found power. It's much more important to save face than to make a new one. No man or woman of rich ethnic background can allow themselves to let the past of their people fall from fame.
Your name must not die with you!

Culture and genetics are two different things. Ethnic Culture is all important, genetic legacy... eh... not so much.

I'm walking proof that overspecialization in genetics is a very bad idea (recently corrected to what extent it can be, thank the Maker). To gain positive traits, you have to identify and breed them in, preferably from very different genetic codes, in order to avoid anomalies and the genetic maladies associated with inbreeding. Even within the wider selection of a single ethnicity, specialization merely maintains a genetic legacy, while doing nothing to improve it in terms of evolutionary success.

An old saying sums it up...
"Overspecialize, and you breed in weakness. Weakness is slow death."

Honestly, my culture means a great deal to me. My ethnicity, not so much. I could find out I'm half-Gallente tomorrow and not even bat an eye in response. I find it amusing when others rave about it, truth be told, given that the very concept of "pure" genetics, is flawed. We all share common genes, and even the most ethnically "pure" DNA has junk sequences.

Unless you're ethnic Gallentean, our blood tastes like freedom.