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I'm speaking as someone who only has a layman's understanding of Elder Scrolls' history, but it's my understanding that the Aldmeri Dominion from ESO was essentially dissolved during Tiber Septim's whole "Conquer-all-of-known-Tamriel-and-become-the-God-Emperor" thing, and the Aldmeri Dominion as seen in Skyrim is an only 'recently' formed political entity.

As for the overall racial/political attitude of, I think it could be argued that most differing races of Tamriel have had groups that attempted to pull monumentally idiotic stunts in pursuit of their own racial supremacy.

For example, the Marukhati Selective - a radical religious group who decided they didn't like how Akatosh resembled the Elven God Auri-El, so ''they decided to fundamentally alter Akatosh through a time-warp and remove parts of Akatosh that they thought were 'too-Elven'. ''That would be like if the Catholic Church decided to alter the laws of physics to make the world flat just because they didn't want to agree with Galileo.

As another example, apparently the Dunmer started as a cultural offshoot of the Altmer called the 'Chimeri' (a.l.a. Skaal Nords differing from Skyrim Nords, Reachmen Bretons differing from High-Rock Bretons), but the Chimeri were cursed with ash-colored skin and red eyes from Azura - as punishment for their leaders discovering the Heart of Lorkhan and exploiting it to make themselves living Gods.

Returning to the original post, I agree that the Aldmeri Dominion faction from ESO probably has different political views and goals than those of Skyrim's Aldmeri Dominion, but I'm thinking that the sort of "me and mine are better than you and yours" attitude is kind of a common trend throughout Tamriel's history in general.