Questions tagged [culture]
For questions dealing with the customary and artistic characteristics of a society.
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What unique differences might evolve in a society where an exclusively nocturnal and exclusively daytime species shared the same space?
Using 21st Century Western Anglophone society as a baseline:
How would the infrastructure of cities (For example shared leisure spaces, transportation networks and homes) differ from our own in order ...
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Would it be plausible for a group of pseudo-spiders to form a colony?
So, ants and bees form colonies, could my spider analogs from colonies? They’re the dominant species on the planet they live in, like humans are. The pseudo-spiders are about 2-3m long, about 1m tall ...
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Multi-Sophont Alliance, Episode 1: Is It Even Possible? [closed]
This question, if not the entire series, is based on the premise behind this painting by Dylan Bajda:
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Set in the world of Serina, the creatures on the boats are called "gravediggers" ...
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How Much is Too Much Land for One Province?
The Aurean Dominate is a sort of federated elective monarchy that rules all of the Planet Aurea (an approximately Earth-sized world but one where all the land is in the southern hemisphere and the ...
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How does my primitive species make baby carriers?
The Maruvans (plant/flowerlike species) are a very primitive and use Stone Age level tools. They can make clothes out of tree bark but I’m trying to figure out how they would make a baby carrier at ...
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The cultural effect of torture, imprisionment and war in a community [closed]
So, I've been writing about a planet called Tabor, a tidally locked earth-like planet with harsh conditions that humanity decided to use as a prison for political and religious criminals.
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Is it possible for another European-style medieval society to be on a separate continent?
In my world there are multiple continents with many cultures. In a far away continent, there are kingdoms that exist there. I was wondering how could they be medieval style like the mainland, and if ...
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Would a culture inhabiting the abandoned homeland of another people adopt parts of the previous inhabitants' language? [closed]
The Vareyn once lived in a fertile land at the head of a great desert, subsisting off of a great river and its bounty - until they were forced to leave after a catastrophic volcanic eruption.
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How would a town be designed for a winged race? [duplicate]
I am creating a world that has a race of winged humanoids, but I am unsure of how a town for them would be designed. They are a slightly smaller than human sized, pre-industrial, omnivorous species ...
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How do I design clothing for nomads?
I'm working on creating a pre-industrial culture of tundra-nomads that herd large, yak-like beasts with large bodies and thick wool, but I'm having trouble figuring out what their clothing would look ...
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What would social media look like in a setting where communication wasn't instant, and where content quality might be deliberately downgraded?
It's the near future, humanity has discovered a new element in the asteroid field that allows faster than light travel and communication through a brute force methods that's largely handwaved away at ...
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How do I design a musical instrument?
I am creating a tundra-nomad inspired culture, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to design instruments that will seem believable for these people and also be unique when compared to the real ...
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Measuring Time in a World Where the Sun Never Sets
First time here, so I don't know what to expect.
I'm writing a dark sci fi mystery story that takes place on a hypothetical megastructure called an "Alderson Disk" (Example seen Below). ...
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What would be the cost of living in a country where only millionaires and billionaires are allowed to live?
I am imagining a small country with a relatively small population; say around five million people, where by law everyone living there needs to be a millionaire or a multimillionaire/billionaire.
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How realistic would for Canada to become richer and wealthier than the United States because of climate change and global warming?
I believe that global warming could make Canada one of the most fertile land areas for agriculture and one of the countries with the most stable climates. So would be realistic that climate change ...
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