Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-12599067-20130928060857/@comment-13446185-20140227223526

After all, when have the Nords EVER allowed cultural minorities to live happily as unsegregated minorities in their communities? Ever? They even treat Nords who aren't the "right kind" of Nords as second-class citizens! (Magic-Users, for instance). But even if we don't agree, this has been a fun debate! Cheers. :)

I think the Forsworn are living in "barbaric" tribal communities out of *necessity*, likewise their reliance on banditry for survival and sustenance, rather than out of *choice*

The Forsworn are a wicked bunch (this is seen often with worshipers of malevolent Daedra), they definitely live in tribes out of choice as the Reachmen have at times ruled both the Reach and the Western Reach yet we have never seen a perminent Reachman settlement.

Assimilating into Nord culture (a culture that is OPENLY antagonistic towards many of their own cultural values... magic, daedra, etc) in order to have limited / partial access to Nord-controlled mines, land, farms (and generally under brutal authorities like the Silver-Bloods) doesn't seem like a very appealing prospect to me.

I never said they assimilated into the Nordic Culture, I said they assimilated into a civilized culture. The Reach is a land known to have multiple different cultures in it, I don't know about you but I've never seen a Reachman act like a Nord.

As I've said before, the Silverbloods are the only people oppressing the Reachmen and that is because they oppress everyone.

"civilized" Reachmen, like Ogmaud for example

Do you mean Omluag? Like I said above, blame the Silverbloods.

'After all, when have the Nords EVER allowed cultural minorities to live happily as unsegregated minorities in their communities? Ever'

Windhelm is really the only place where this happens.