Gridania and "outsiders"

[FJerome]

Frankly, there just is no grand villainy a foot in the Black Shroud. Its just an intrinsically defensive system of governance in the that turns people off. We as players are the ones that are putting our judgments of how things ought to be onto another system. I keep seeing a cultural imperialistism towards Gridania. We "get" the government of Limsa and Ul'dah, we understand corrupt politicians and thievery and cutthroat politics. Aren't we enlightened! However, we just don't understand the covenant spiritism that guides the Shroud and it spooks us. Its different and not Western. The biggest boogy man in the Shroud, (besides the actual one in Amdapor Keep), is just backwards people. Just that simple.

Actually I think the opposite of cultural imperialism happens for a lot of players; those of us who pick Keeper Mi'qote and Duskwrights are going to see the racism (archer's guild, lancer's guild, etc.) that Gridania holds against those species. Since the Lore tells us that those selected races also lives in the Shroud, mainly surviving outside Gridanian culture and their pact with the Elementals, I'm not sure what the proper RP response is other than to start believing that's something really wrong with the place?