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Endogamy is the practice of marriage within a certain ethnic, religious or social group. [[Daxia]]n people have for reasons of history and tradition, always frowned upon unions with non-Daxians. A partial explanation to this can be provided by the [[Zhangwo]] ideology, the core idea being that the Daxians have been so successful at building a bureaucratic empire because the divine have ordained them as a superior race. This idea has been both a curse and a blessing for smaller ethnic groups living in areas that border the Daxian heartlands; a boon because the massive Daxian people could have absorbed and diluted them into the greater whole if not for the fact that it was seen as culturally repugnant to marry a foreigner, a curse because their inability to marry Daxians meant they would never be truly accepted in that society, dooming them to subservience, suspicion and cruelty. One well known example is that of the [[Degei Confederation|Degei people]], a nomadic people that lived in the grasslands north of [[Daxia]] for hundreds of years and interacted and were influenced by it in many ways. The anthroposcopy of the average Degei has historically been considered to be close enough to the average Daxian as to be distantly related, the pigmentation of the skin and the elongated epicanthal folds lending themselves to a certain compatibility, if traditional looks were to be preserved in offspring. And yet despite the physical similarities, the [[Degei Confederation|Degei people]] were never truly seen as anything but uncultured, foul and treacherous barbarians, useful in a fight if you could get them to obey by feeding them trinkets and lofty but meaningless honors. Some historians have posited that the great revolt of [[Darukh Khan]] started with his innermost, most secret insecurity, that he admired the Daxian people but could not and would not ever be accepted by them as an equal no matter what he did. The allure of endogamy within Daxian society has ebbed and flowed across history and its hold has not always been absolute or equally respected in specific geographic parts of the empire. The settlers who colonized [[Xisheng]] found themselves fighting the natives almost from the very start and this hostile reception shaped their own attitudes and sharpened their native xenophobia; [[Xisheng]]'s Daxian's took refuge in their redoubts and limited their contact with the [[Crona]]n peoples for three hundred years. Comparatively the explorers who discovered and colonized [[Peratra]] were received peacefully and traded in peace with many tribes for a number of years, this coupled with the great distances to the homeland softened and cracked the allure of endogamy; [[Timbia]] today is an example of a society with a great degree of mixing between native Polynesians and Daxians. | Endogamy is the practice of marriage within a certain ethnic, religious or social group. [[Daxia]]n people have for reasons of history and tradition, always frowned upon unions with non-Daxians. A partial explanation to this can be provided by the [[Zhangwo]] ideology, the core idea being that the Daxians have been so successful at building a bureaucratic empire because the divine have ordained them as a superior race. This idea has been both a curse and a blessing for smaller ethnic groups living in areas that border the Daxian heartlands; a boon because the massive Daxian people could have absorbed and diluted them into the greater whole if not for the fact that it was seen as culturally repugnant to marry a foreigner, a curse because their inability to marry Daxians meant they would never be truly accepted in that society, dooming them to subservience, suspicion and cruelty. One well known example is that of the [[Degei Confederation|Degei people]], a nomadic people that lived in the grasslands north of [[Daxia]] for hundreds of years and interacted and were influenced by it in many ways. The anthroposcopy of the average Degei has historically been considered to be close enough to the average Daxian as to be distantly related, the pigmentation of the skin and the elongated epicanthal folds lending themselves to a certain compatibility, if traditional looks were to be preserved in offspring. And yet despite the physical similarities, the [[Degei Confederation|Degei people]] were never truly seen as anything but uncultured, foul and treacherous barbarians, useful in a fight if you could get them to obey by feeding them trinkets and lofty but meaningless honors. Some historians have posited that the great revolt of [[Darukh Khan]] started with his innermost, most secret insecurity, that he admired the Daxian people but could not and would not ever be accepted by them as an equal no matter what he did. The allure of endogamy within Daxian society has ebbed and flowed across history and its hold has not always been absolute or equally respected in specific geographic parts of the empire. The settlers who colonized [[Xisheng]] found themselves fighting the natives almost from the very start and this hostile reception shaped their own attitudes and sharpened their native xenophobia; [[Xisheng]]'s Daxian's took refuge in their redoubts and limited their contact with the [[Crona]]n peoples for three hundred years. Comparatively the explorers who discovered and colonized [[Peratra]] were received peacefully and traded in peace with many tribes for a number of years, this coupled with the great distances to the homeland softened and cracked the allure of endogamy; [[Timbia]] today is an example of a society with a great degree of mixing between native Polynesians and Daxians. | ||
====Daxian Racialism==== | ====Daxian Racialism==== | ||
A topic greatly discussed among scholars both foreign and domestic is the origin of [[Daxia]]'s racialism, how far back in history lie its roots and if ancient Daxians were even prejudiced against other races. While one the great sources and justification of [[Daxia]]n racialism is always named as ''Considerations of Yang Imperial Expansion'', written in 680 CE by Heian Xiujian, First Minister of the Yang court, most experts now agree that the true origin lies much far back, in ancient texts and rites of Daxia's native religion. While ''Considerations of Yang Imperial Expansion'' is the premier text used and expanded on at the dynasty level to inflame and denigrate the foreign, at the popular level it was the priests and [[men of the hedge]] who spoke to the commoners of the need to protect the purity of the lands from that which was strange, dangerous and '''unholy'''. Tablets dated as far back as 2,400 BCE contain religious poems and hymns extolling the pure and calling on the faithful to honor the Gods of the Earth and the Air by defending their [[Great Garden]] (interpreted to be the land of [[Daxia]] from the [[Shadows beyond the Garden]] and their servants. The tablets include an addition in less prosaic language, a listing of the known ''servants of the dark'' including the names of city-states to the west such as Nasrad, Khaton, Turaq and Rilban; cities then under the rule of king Iyachtu, an ancestor of the later self-style Highest of Kings, Xvim the Black. | A topic greatly discussed among scholars both foreign and domestic is the origin of [[Daxia]]'s racialism, how far back in history lie its roots and if ancient Daxians were even prejudiced against other races. While one the great sources and justification of [[Daxia]]n racialism is always named as ''Considerations of Yang Imperial Expansion'', written in 680 CE by Heian Xiujian, First Minister of the Yang court, most experts now agree that the true origin lies much far back, in ancient texts and rites of Daxia's native religion. While ''Considerations of Yang Imperial Expansion'' is the premier text used and expanded on at the dynasty level to inflame and denigrate the foreign, at the popular level it was the priests and [[men of the hedge]] who spoke to the commoners of the need to protect the purity of the lands from that which was strange, dangerous and '''unholy'''. Tablets dated as far back as 2,400 BCE contain religious poems and hymns extolling the pure and calling on the faithful to honor the Gods of the Earth and the Air by defending their [[Great Garden]] (interpreted to be the land of [[Daxia]]) from the [[Shadows beyond the Garden]] and their servants. The tablets include an addition in less prosaic language, a listing of the known ''servants of the dark'' including the names of city-states to the west such as Nasrad, Khaton, Turaq and Rilban; cities then under the rule of king Iyachtu, an ancestor of the later self-style Highest of Kings, Xvim the Black. | ||
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