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[helpthisguyplease]

What is culture in your definition? Did they had the same language and religion or what? Did the normans and anglo-saxons had a different religion?

[Br3admax]

The dragon helped the Fereldans because it recognized itself within that army. Underdogs - sleeping giants - hunted to near extinction. Majestic and proud. With the potential to rule.

 

/head canon

I just noticed this. I really hope one of the twelve dragons I've killed in this series is this one. 

[helpthisguyplease]

Language and religion are not culture. You can be subscribe to a religion without following the customs or political views of the area where the religion originated. Language even less so

Ok so what is cultural difference between France and Belgium, England and Scotland. What do you think culture is?

[spoiler]Culture is the characteristics of a particular group of people, defined by everything from language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts.[/spolier]

[helpthisguyplease]

Local custom. Everyday life. Language and religion plays a part, but it's not what defines a culture. Someone from Idaho is completely different from someone from New York state is completely different from someone from Texas is completely different from someone from Kentucky. And this is all in one country. Not to mention smaller cities and towns Tampa, Orlando, and Miami for instance.

 

Bingo so why was Vietnam and Han China not different culturally?

[Br3admax]

I'm pretty sure it was the Fereldan Frostback. Rebel Queen's Ravine should have been a dead give away.

Yeah, at the same time I believe it was a "great dragon" not a high dragon that attacked first. I don't think the weakest dragon in  the game is the Queen of Dragons. 

[gothicshark]

Ok, this is going to be tricky, on a bus with an iPhone so expect errors of grammar and odd word replacements.

Couture is the common heritage, morality, and social norms of a society. Many times the culture of a region is mirrored by the local beliefs. However not always. I'll use the USA as an example. North America is nearly a homogeneous culture yet it has all ethnicities and religious beliefs contained within it.
The coulter is much subtler we nod our head for yes in one way, we eat larger portions. We fear police yet we are also rude to them. Culture is really complicated but easy to spot when surrounded by one that is different.

[helpthisguyplease]

I never said that...

Yep you did not said that you said that language and religion is not culture even if you know that religion comes with customs. So let me ask you when 2 things as language and religion are different do you still consider them the same culture?

[gothicshark]

Local custom. Everyday life. Language and religion plays a part, but it's not what defines a culture. Someone from Idaho is completely different from someone from New York state is completely different from someone from Texas is completely different from someone from Kentucky. And this is all in one country. Not to mention smaller cities and towns. Tampa, Orlando, and Miami for instance.

The religion I (fail to) practice started on the other side of the planet. But if someone were to say I was culturally Arab I'd look at them funny.

Actually from the tip of Alaska the northern parts of Mexico, the primary cultural norms are fairly uniform.

[helpthisguyplease]

Ok, this is going to be tricky, on a bus with an iPhone so expect errors of grammar and odd word replacements.

Couture is the common heritage, morality, and social norms of a society. Many times the culture of a region is mirrored by the local beliefs. However not always. I'll use the USA as an example. North America is nearly a homogeneous culture yet it has all ethnicities and religious beliefs contained within it.
The coulter is much subtler we nod our head for yes in one way, we eat larger portions. We fear police yet we are also rude to them. Culture is really complicated but easy to spot when surrounded by one that is different.

Well lets put it this way the normans and anglo-saxons pretty much had the same, morality and social norms like the women had to listen to the man and had no rights during marriage, you live and die in the same social standing you were born with, both had a feudal system, both had the same holidays and both tried to follow the indications of the church on how to behave in many aspects. If you watch closely the only difference between them was language and art. They did the same thing they worked the land, payed taxes had the same major holidays and were a patriarchy society as most of the world. The only difference between them was language and art, and that is not more then Vietnam and China.

[gothicshark]

Yep you did not said that you said that language and religion is not culture even if you know that religion comes with customs. So let me ask you when 2 things as language and religion are different do you still consider them the same culture?

I live in Los Angeles, I'm of German and Russian Jewish background, raised 1st Southern Baptist became a pagan and now I'm a born again atheist. I speak Californian English, my roommate born in Mexico city and a Sephardic Jew who speaks both Mexico city Spanish and Californian English, he also observed Jewish customs. We are both of the same cloture even thou we do not share the same beliefs or languages.

Much of the U.S. is defined by these differences.

[gothicshark]

Okay. Offer someone who isn't from Louisiana or Florida some fried gator. Hell people in NY make fun of people in NJ everyday.

I'm in Los Angeles and can easily find fryer food, with Cajun spices.

Local rivalrys are caused by people trying to spot the difference. NY and Louisiana are closer to each other culturally than NY an California. And California and NEw York are closer to each other culturally than New York and Peru.

Yes the Normans and all of midevil Europe had similarities, most of Europe descended from Roman imperial rule into warlord rule aka feudalism. However there are significant differences for starters Celtic people were mostly ( **** iPhone word replacements) female important leaders societies while Southern Europe including the Normans were (iPhone word replacement) male social important.

Really hate iPhones.

[helpthisguyplease]

I live in Los Angeles, I'm of German and Russian Jewish background, raised 1st Southern Baptist became a pagan and now I'm a born again atheist. I speak Californian English, my roommate born in Mexico city and a Sephardic Jew who speaks both Mexico city Spanish and Californian English, he also observed Jewish customs. We are both of the same cloture even thou we do not share the same beliefs or languages.

Much of the U.S. is defined by these differences.

You can not pinpoint what makes you 2 the same culture can you? Its so subtle that is very very hard to explain but since we can not pinpoint that we have to take something to separate a certain group of people from another and that is usually language and religion. For example Moldova and Moldovans say that they have a different culture from Romania and Romanians and that and their reason for that is "because we are" they can not find a good reason why their culture is different but they say it is. So when the Vienamese people said they are different people with different culture(including language and religion) and they made tens of rebellions because of that that means they are.

[Drunk Dutch Dude]

Tevinter/Qunari > Orlais > Nevarra > Ferelden. The Tevinter/Qunari are highly disciplined and strong soldiers. They are quite small and disorganised however, which hurts their potential tremendously. Secondly Orlais, it's basically medieval France. A rich and large superpower, capable of fielding enormous, well-trained knights. Nevarra is third because they resemble the Swiss  in my opinion, a proud, small people who are excellent at holding their ground. Last is Ferelden, they are quite large but thanks to the failure of the nobility they are constantly losing and in chaos. 

 

Orlais = Medieval France

Tevinter/Qunari = Early Prussia

Nevarra = Medieval Switzerland

Ferelden = 17th century Spain

[gothicshark]

You can not pinpoint what makes you 2 the same culture can you? Its so subtle that is very very hard to explain but since we can not pinpoint that we have to take something to separate a certain group of people from another and that is usually language and religion. For example Moldova and Moldovans say that they have a different culture from Romania and Romanians and that and their reason for that is "because we are" they can not find a good reason why their culture is different but they say it is. So when the Vienamese people said they are different people with different culture(including language and religion) and they made tens of rebellions because of that that means they are.

I can but not on an iPhone while riding a bus.

The differance between central China and Vietnam is equivalent to the difference between New York and Mississippi. Sure they have quiet a few reasons to hate each other and one is a temperate area and the other is swampland with mountains and hills. But when you look at the significance coltural markers they are not that much different.

[garrusfan1]

Tevinter has the strongest. They fought everyone else to a standstill and their cities are alot harder to breach. Their capital has never fallen. Orlais is the second strongest and is the deterent to tevinter.

[herkles]

actually minrathous has been sacked once its long history, of course that was by darkspawn.

[ThaWitchKing]

The darkspawn never sacked minrathous

[herkles]

The darkspawn never sacked minrathous

not true from world of thedas:

 

 

Tevinter, meanwhile, was greatly weakened by the Darkspwan sacking of Minrathous in 1:31 Divine

[myahele]

Seeing that one magister was able to get a foot hold in Redcliff and manage to hold it for a year+ despite constant (3 I think) siege attempts by Ferelden AND the inquisition. Another magister also unfiltered the grey wardens and we know what happened.

I personally believe that the Venatori have always existed prior to Cory's awakening and their goal was to incite as much political discord ala Loghains betrayal, the attempted assassination of the mothers which led to Cassandra becoming a Hero, etc.