# Off-Topic Thread vol. 2 **URL:** \ **Category:** Intergalactic Summit\ **Created:** [July 4, 2019, 2:24pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/off-topic-thread-vol-2/171718 "2019-07-04T14:24:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5805
**Author:** ![Aria\_Jenneth](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/aria_jenneth/32/469792_2.png) [@Aria\_Jenneth](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Aria_Jenneth)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2022, 12:02am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/off-topic-thread-vol-2/171718/5805 "2022-12-07T00:02:32Z")
Hmmm. As you say, sir, but: > [@Solid State Rising](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/solid-state-rising/386634/28): > > We are at an impasse here. You see the blending of cultures and peoples into an single entity indistinguishable from one another except in the ways they choose to be disparate as a bad thing, I see it as a beautiful example of unity and solidarity. This is a meaningful distinction-- a _defining_ distinction, to the Caldari mind. To them, “blending” is a loss of identity, a diminishing of self. Perhaps it can be that, and still also “a beautiful example of unity and solidarity,” but the Caldari can’t see it that way. To the Caldari, this world is a crucible, where all who dwell within are tested-- not relentlessly, for where is the test if the subject is given no opportunity to grow soft and complacent? But inevitably, and without mercy. The ultimate goal and purpose of the Caldari is to survive-- to face and withstand the test, at all cost. To them, it is their very _unblended_ cultural identity that makes them strong, able to stand against all that comes. They’re afraid you’ll make them and (more importantly) their descendants weak and complacent as (to their eyes) you are. And when the test (once winter and war, now gods-know-what) comes, they’ll be found wanting and die. To put it from a slightly different angle, _you are a test of their will_. Your way is nothing if not attractive, but if they allow themselves to be seduced, they will perish alongside you. The right to remain themselves, undiluted, is one they hold as precious, even sacred. It’s why they don’t require or even encourage their clients to conform: to them, every way of life should stand or fall on its own merits (or lack of same), and to require change is to rob a people of its fair opportunity to compete on its own terms. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/off-topic-thread-vol-2/171718)._