Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-26213507-20150928140042/@comment-1600847-20150930181614

Bronkiin wrote: I don't understand why looking after 'refugees', of whom we see almost none in-game, and 'tolerance', seems to be so high on people's priority list. As I've explained in the previous thread, racial differences are such an integral part of Tamriel that picking it out as a factor is just imposing our real world way of thinking and problems onto a completely different scenario and set of circumstances. All provinces are fundamentally mistrustful of other races and the unknown, so to decide that Skyrim needs to become a haven of equality is really rather strange. It should be noted the difference between "tolerance" and "acceptance". Acceptance would be really hard to do, but tolerance is simply allowing someone to exist near you without bothering them. That's fairly standard across Tamriel. "Acceptance", being all friendly, is much harder to come by. Only place I saw that in Tamriel was Cyrodiil.