SandTrout wrote...
Tibet fell to China and has been brutally oppressed since. At least part of their fall to the Chinese is due to their buhdist philosophy of non-aggression, resulting in no feasable military.
Not true. The Tibetans are as self-interested and aggressive as any other culture. They even sacked the capital of China in 763 CE, during a period of instability of China's powerful Tang Dynasty. The Buddhist religion (or more precisely, the Tibetan version of it) is just there to provide stability and spiritual control over the masses, no different from any other religion.
The reason Tibet was eventually subjugated by China is because its lands cannot sustain a high enough population. This relates to Saphra's point of how the Asari's breeding practices will curb the population growth of other species.
Actually the Chinese also employed similar strategies to the Asari which contributed significantly to their dominance in Asia. They've absorbed countless different ethnicities and cultures into their own through intermarriage. The Huns, the Turks, the Mongols, the Khitans, the Manchus, were all significantly absorbed into Chinese culture and population, with their own cultural and ethnic identities either significantly diminished or utterly destroyed. The Manchus in China today look Chinese, speak Chinese, and behave in ways that are completely Chinese. They were not subjugated through sword and fire - they were subjugated through cultural and ethnic assimilation.