If a race was truly Xenophobic, why would you in essence put your younger generations through the pilgrimage without giving them some form of protection, if they truly dispised and distrusted other races, you would often see Quarian pilgrims fully armed, Tali probably attained arms when she needed them after her information gathering in ME1, since I highly doubt you would give your younger members of society a grenade as a farewell present for normal use.
Additionally, they put Quarians on the pilgrimage, to give them an idea of the 'world' around them, if they truly disliked the rest of the galaxy then they wouldnt do this, not all Quarians come back to the fleet, for personal reasons, and if they were taught that all of the other species were horrible and bad for them, then they likely wouldnt socialise with them often at all.
You could easily add a conspiracy theory that they only do this to show younger members that the outside world is bad, but I dont think this is correct, its more of an ability to let them get an appreciation of a world they will likely never experience again, and of course to try and gain new technology away from the fleet.
Someone did previously mention that humans treat Quarians badly as well, but realistically the only humans who have been a little overzealous are the C-Sec officers, as even they can only really go off first impressions on what they have been informed to do by their superiors as standard protocol, their superiors likely being originally citadel races, non-humans then their routine would have a negative view on Quarians.
Putting it into perspective, I doubt that the humans who took Veetor in had that much of a problem with him, or wouldnt have kept him on the colony, in essence, the problem lies with others falling under the influences of citadel races' own views on other races, which are not fully true.
For instance, who'd expect a Krogan to be a romantic after first impressions with Wrex?
Modifié par Evil_Sarevok, 02 avril 2011 - 12:56 .