How often do the different Races inter-mingle with each other?

[CyrilLucifer]

I'm tempted to agree with Theodric. Spoilering in case the topic has moved on, I haven't read the whole thread yet.

Honestly, the issues with racism and xenophobia in-universe are very diluted in ARR. Like, we're told that Gridania is xenophobic but I've never actually felt that way, even as a Duskwight.

Even doing something like the Archer questline where one character is all hostile and angsty towards outsiders, I never felt it. In fact, this hostile character was condemned. SE is sending me mixed messages here; Gridania is supposed to be insular, yet the one NPC that actually shows such behavior is scolded for it. I actually liked the guy, though, he was super cute and tsundere for you by the time the questline ended.

The same goes with Ishgard, really. Once we actually got in, I didn't really feel like they were terribly xenophobic.

It's kind of a big problem with ARR in general in that the city lore relies a lot of tell-don't-show. Which is really a shame for me, because I generally find inter-racial politics and long-standing grudges in fantasy to be extremely fascinating and they tend to be some of my favorite aspects of lore.

PS: Needs more sympathetic Duskwights. I guess Urianger uses a Duskwight model, so maybe he counts?