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Old 05-09-2014, 04:20 PM   #135
Flyndaran
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Default Re: New Reality Seeds

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Originally Posted by Astromancer View Post
On another tack with India. Suppose that a noble, favored by both George IV and Victoria, were to marry into the family of a Maharaja? If intermarrige between the high nobility of India and Britain became first acceptable then (because of the vast wealth) fashionable. Picture an British Empire with a powerful resurgent nobility and a total rejection of 19th century racism, but otherwise rather right-wing. It could be a lively, if low probability, world.

Certainly the Great Game would be wildly different.
Why would racism stop? Wouldn't you just have racism against anyone not British white or Indian brown? And doubling down on classism/caste-ism?
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