Thread: Patch 7.0 Notes

Originally Posted by Hasrat

We're going to fantasy-Americas filled with cultural references... where "tribes" might carry a certain connotation they don't really want to project.

Which is...what exactly?

I legitimately was not aware of any negative connotations that were commonly attached to the word.

Originally Posted by KageTokage

Which is...what exactly?

I legitimately was not aware of any negative connotations that were commonly attached to the word.

"tribe" is generally seen as a word that was chosen for them to make the nations they were organized into seem lesser than those founded by European colonizers. Calling the various nations that were here before colonialization "tribes" both minimizes that the nations were just that, nations, and in addition, leads to homogenization of disparate peoples, since it comes from the Latin tribus which was used to denote subsections of the population under the Roman Empire, rather than independent nations or peoples, similarly to how it was used for the 12 Tribes of Israel, which were smaller divisions under one or two nations.