Intergalactic Summit

...Hm. This is a bit of a tricky subject.

I'm going to wait and see what atmosphere and response this thread generates before offering my personal thoughts, if that's alright.

I can only offer my own experience. Not sure what it's value is.

My mother was a Kaalakiota worker. She was only half Achuran but she showed it strong.

What I was told, occasionally she was subject to racial tensions from her co-workers, but these incidents were investigated into very seriously.

She grew up in an Achuran district, with only other Achuran families. This made my grandfather an outlier in that respect as a Civire man. I'm not sure how that effected him. I haven't spoke much about it with him.

Overall, I feel the attitude towards Achurans in the State is healthy. I observe some of the Achuran traditions in my routine (and I personally feel that these enrich my lifestyle) and it feels as if many businesses in the State are taking steps to do the same, or at the very least accommodate the Achurans in a way that is inoffensive so that our relationship can profit. SuVee and it's subsidiaries come to mind; it's with them that I feel that Achuran integration into Caldari culture is represented at it's best.

Corporate audit data recognizes me as Civire, which is similarly reflected in my pilot license papers. Some find my ethnicity a little difficult to place at a glance, however (my father is half Khanid). In the State, I've been singled out because of this only twice. But that was little more than hot-tempered words from colleagues passed up on when it came to promotions. This was before the meritocratic reforms.

Hmm, it ain't too often a subject comes up that loosens up my tongue for this long.

I'd be interested in hearing from fully ethnic Achurans.

If I may, we similarly hear little of the Jin-Mei in the Federation, and Intaki politics in the Federation are at times sensitive. By contrast, the Empire is monolithic, and the Republic fractious enough that we hear many points of view frequently. This is the nature of the thing. Each nation's politics differ, and the role of ethnicity within each nation differs as well.

My mother was Achuran, but I was raised on a CalNav station, perhaps with less exposure to the traditions than might be ideal. My support of the State -- and specifically the policies of Ishukone Corporation and others in the bloc -- stems from an appreciation of a Caldari ideal: birthright, rightness-of-place. Caldari Prime is an abstraction to me. That I desire it through peace and reconciliation seems fitting.

I graduated from the Capsuleer Selection Program into the State War Academy, class of YC114-2nd Quarter. There were only 12 of us; 6 Civre, 6 Deitis and 2 Achura. The Achura in our class were solid and dependable. They had a high aptitude and picked up on material at an exceptional rate. But they were not as patriotic as the other classmates, and their studies bordered on the esoteric. I myself have never been a very spiritual man and found it hard to relate to my Achura classmates.

We have not heard from the Achura because the Achura are not as invested in the war.

The Empire is just as diverse as the rest of the cluster.

Having been born into and serving Sukuuvestaa prior to my recent transfer to Kaalakiota, I have come to appreciate many aspects of Achur culture and perspective. Indeed, Achuran women can be particularly pleasant company whom can offer numerous opportunities for finding mutual understandings and despite the prevalent stereotype for Achur to be introverted, my own experiences in private have shown me they can possess an innate curiosity more than open to new experiences, innovation and experimentation. It is that talent for understanding and perspective, I believe, that has lead the Achur far not only within SuVee but elsewhere in the State. I have certainly come to respect the opinions of an Achuran aide-de-campe when conducting a negotiation.

The Achur of today are a well-integrated people whose relationship with the State and Caldari is premised upon mutual tolerance, respect, and understanding that begun when the first Sukuuvestaa exploratory vessel entered the Saisio system and has continued ever since. The Caldari State and its companies offer the Achur people the benefits of employment and corporate citizenship where service, duty and loyalty to The Company and The State is rewarded with prosperity.

In fact, I believe the established framework the Achur enjoy within The State in which their Homeworld is granted the privileges of a Special Autonomous Zone and their people offered the benefits of Caldari corporate citizenship and employment in addition to tangible military protections both corporate and national is a superlative model to pursue in the creation of new corporate enclaves and colonial protectorates to expand State spheres of influence outside its traditional borders.

As ethnic Achuran I feel that it is important that I speak my mind on this subject. Now mind you my view may not be the same as other Achurans.

I have never personally felt like an outcast or 2nd rate citizen to the State just because I'm not an ethnic Caldari descended from Caldari Prime. I have always been treated with the utmost respect by the ethnic Caldari and I treat them the same way. As I see it we are all Caldari. I don't care what you look like or what planet you may have descended from. All I care about is your actions and what you stand for, that is what determines if you are Caldari or not.

As for Caldari Prime, I may have no historical stake in it but that does not mean I don't care deeply about the current situation. I consider Caldari Prime just as important as my own homeworld Achura.

I am afraid that these tensions were not because she was Achura, but because she was half-Achura. I am myself half-Achura, but I have learned to, well, let's say, to "release" these tensions, I hope you understand what I do mean. Sometimes it was giving me more problems. Eventually, some of those, who were bringing such tensions, became my friends, others became enemies, ones considered me strong, others thought I was crazy, some respected, and others despised. But I surely made them to think twice before bringing such tensions again.

I'm pretty certain the tensions aren't because you're half-Achur.

They're because you're f***ing insane and have no grasp on reality.

Excuse me, what?



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