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searches without decent keywords are doomed to failure [open]

May 19, 2011 23:51

Closing the last document she'd pulled up to read on stone masonry, Sakura sighed. She was pretty sure she had everything in place to start on repairs to the damage she'd caused, even if she wasn't sure there was anyone on ship who had a vested interest in caring. If it felt right to her to help remake what she'd unintentionally made a crater in ( Read more... )

kanoe zouichi, maridian, kang, setsuna f. seiei, sakura haruno, !status: open, hoshi hikari, !location: media library

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jesus_is_gundam May 22 2011, 07:57:08 UTC

Well, somebody was up and about today. Whether or not he should be was a different argument. But its not as if one ever did any strenuous physical work in the Media Library, of all places, so he probably wouldn't aggravate his injuries here.

He walked past Sakura quietly, and settled into one of the other terminals. There was something he needed to look up...

haruno May 22 2011, 08:55:54 UTC

She didn't look up at first, registering someone moving near-by, but without any particular damaging intent. Or at least nothing focused on her.

Looking over, she blinked in surprise as recognition struck. "Seiei-san?" He'd been "discharged" recently, if his progress had mostly been physical. "How are you doing today?" Turning to better face him, she let her omnicomm sit un-looked at on the horizontal surface of her terminal.

eradicating_war May 22 2011, 09:25:58 UTC

He raised an eyebrow as he looked in her direction. He didn't think he was that much older than Sakura that '-san' needed to added. He was only twenty-thr--

...one. He was only twenty-one.

He glanced away from her briefly, wondering how he could possibly be confused on his own age like that. He pushed that thought aside as he looked back at her.

"Haruno Sakura." Well, at least he was back to his more usual way of saying 'hi' to people.

haruno May 22 2011, 10:07:26 UTC

Old enough to be a teacher. Besides, at a perpetual sixteen for now, everyone felt older in a way that was hard to define. Then again, her agemates my and large didn't all feel like the peers they technically were.

He hadn't answered, but the return to how he'd addressed her in prior meetings is at better than it had been. "Still my name," she said in turn. It almost made her smile. He was one of the few people to use her name in full.

Yet he hadn't answered her question about his health, and so she asked something else for the moment instead. "What are you looking for?"

jesus_is_gundam May 22 2011, 10:35:24 UTC

"Nothing important," he answered. It was a lie, but right now he'd rather his own research not be made public. Celestial Being was a secretive group, even among its own ranks. As a result, getting Setsuna to talk about himself like pulling teeth.

Fortunately, he had barely started, so there wasn't much there for her to see, if she bothered to take a glance.

"Were you able to get a satisfactory answer regarding 'Hispania?'"

haruno May 23 2011, 02:24:37 UTC

She sat back, never having thought to glimpse over at his screen. If they were closer, perhaps -- but she lacked that particular edge without prompting from her environment. The same mentality that had her honestly ace an exam that was supposed to be solved through cheating showed up in other areas of her life, time to time ( ... )

eradicating_war May 23 2011, 02:56:22 UTC

He paused for a moment as he dissected her words. It was interesting, studying her confusion, since this was something that was more or less understood on his world.

"Your confusion seems to be that you think of 'nationality' and 'ethnicity' as being the same thing. They overlap in a way, but they're two distinctly different things. Ethnicity refers more to the genetic and cultural lineage of someone's bloodline. Nationality merely refers to your current citizenship."

He paused again, as he parsed out how to better explain how that divide came about. After all, if you lived in one country, shouldn't you be part of that nation's culture?

"How frequently do people travel to other continents on your world?"

haruno May 23 2011, 05:24:23 UTC

"Ethnicity?" She was quiet, listening to Setsuna's explanation. A genetic and cultural lineage of someone's bloodline made sense, if the word he was using to describe it was new to her. She recognized some version of that divide existed on her own world, between clans, and village, and country, if it was still jarring.

She was piecing this together, albeit slowly. "Not frequently at all," she said, looking up at him. "Civilians don't tend to leave their own villages all that often, and the merchants mostly move among the island chains to the East of our continent. I couldn't even tell you about nations outside of the landmass I live on." She frowned. "Is that all that unusual, where you're from?"

eradicating_war May 23 2011, 06:59:37 UTC

He had to think for a moment, on how to phrase this all so that she would understand. He wasn't the best with words, and this was a somewhat esoteric concept ( ... )

haruno May 24 2011, 08:06:35 UTC

Sakura straightened in her chair, watching Setsuna as he gave her his explanation. She could better understand what he meant, relating it to familiar parallels in her own life. Travel itself might not be so common, but moving groups still was to this day. Prior to the establishment of the villages, it'd been harder to track. Ninja Clans didn't exactly absorb each other, though there were a few times in history. With the establishment of the villages, some of the weaker clans stopped the overt affiliation, while carrying forward their traditions.

Then again, she knew of most those by proxy. Without a genealogy and clan of her own, she could only rely on what she'd read or learned through contact over the years. "Then it doesn't have so much to do with the country, and more to do with culture and shared history." Though as refugees... "Maybe even as an effort to keep what they can of a home they've been driven out of, in some cases."

Marco really could have been nice enough to state a country, not a cultural identity. Now ( ... )

eradicating_war May 24 2011, 08:50:50 UTC

"Correct." He decided not to elaborate further unless requested, apparently having already blown through his allotment of words for the day.

haruno May 25 2011, 05:49:01 UTC

She hummed under her breath, still considering. Setsuna had helped explain things unfamiliar to her in a way she thought she understood. It was more complicated than it initially appeared, if it did start to explain some of the defensiveness she'd inadvertently run into when talking to the thirteen year old Marco.

"Is there any reason," she asked, choosing her words carefully, "For people to be defensive about their cultural heritages? Is it common to attack people for being..." she trailed off. Different wasn't the right word, nor was integrated, since both only encompassed the ideas of alien nations clashing, or refugees moving into a new area. "Being something outside what a country chooses to define itself as, culturally? Do some nationalities clash with cultural identities?"

eradicating_war May 25 2011, 07:16:18 UTC

"Yes." Which is really how he knew all of this. Celestial Being was out to eradicate all armed conflicts, though that started with understanding why conflicts happened. And you really can't find a bigger and more complex source of friction and strife than when cultures grind against each other.

Part of him wanted to leave that explanation there, but as he considered her, he figured that simple answer wouldn't be enough. So, welcome to Racism 101, Sakura. Apparently he is old enough to be her teacher."Historically, whenever one empire would expand, they would treat the people of any land or culture they conquered as lower class citizens, sometimes reducing them to nothing more than property and selling them off as slaves. Refugees who fled were more often than not seen as barely tolerated but unwelcome guests. By my era, slavery was outlawed through the world, and the major powers strove for social equality between the majority and minority ethnic groups within their borders, but... That sort of attitude could remain as part of the ( ... )

haruno May 26 2011, 02:59:25 UTC

Respectable enough to be one of them , at least. (Respect and levels of stubbornness sometimes seem related ( ... )

eradicating_war May 26 2011, 03:42:05 UTC

He grunted in acknowledgment, then looked at her as if to say anything else?

haruno May 26 2011, 16:25:20 UTC

At first, it didn't seem like Sakura noticed he was looking back at her, still lost as she was in her own thoughts. Yet she shakes her head finally, a not quite universal sign to say no. Not right now.

She had enough to think about for the time being. Further questions would come later.

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