Questions tagged [culture]
For questions dealing with the customary and artistic characteristics of a society.
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What kind of pressures would make a culture force its members to always wear power armour
I'm writing a science-fantasy story where there is a culture that forces its members to constantly wear power armor in public. There are different types of armor depending on the specific job the ...
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What are the underlying social, economic, or cultural elements that create a scientifically minded society? [closed]
I am creating a little republic, one founded by religious dissidents and breakaway cults of the main religion of the setting. It's a trading republic, a wealthy one with high literacy by premodern ...
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Hobbies and entertainment for an aquatic race of stoics
These people, called the Ebrou, are uniquely adapted to fishing in underground aquifers because they do not need to breathe. They can take in ambient magical energy instead of oxygen, so they've been ...
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What would be the German and French attitudes toward marriage? [closed]
The story that I'm writing is set in an alternate, vaguely-medieval Europe. There are some differences, since in this world, magic has been a known and relatively steady influence on culture and ...
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is everyone dark skinned in a realistic cyberpunk story? [closed]
following global trends it suggest that eventually fair skin will be as rare as redheads are today as Europeans or ethnically "white" people are staling or going down in population, eastern ...
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How does constant darkness effect a culture's clothing?
In my world, Elves live in a tall forest with a canopy so thick that almost no light reaches the forest floor. Due to this, Elves have all but gone blind. The sun still warms the upper layers, but ...
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Why would yellow be considered a manly colour? [closed]
I am writing a story that is set in the Fourth World (metaphor meaning uncontracted people, hunter-gatherers, nomads, pastoral peoples, and some subsistence farming peoples, and sub-populations from ...
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What materials and building techniques would a Late Medieval-Renaissance city use next to an ocean?
I'm designing a coastal city (called Bruxport), and I'm wondering what types of materials and techniques would be used to help combat erosion, water damage, and salt build-up from damaging buildings?
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Futuristic fusion of university campus with desi cultural heritage preserved [closed]
So my idea is to redesign my university campus in a more modern and futuristic setting. But the aim is to keep the original cultural feel to it. For reference the campus is pretty old say 50-60 years ...
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If clock and calendar was reinvented with today's knowledge, what could they look like?
Our notion of recording and communicating time and date is based on very old concepts, many of them being built upon flawed assumptions (that the Sun should be at exact south at noon, that a year ...
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Would a bioengineered man with Aromatase excess Syndrome naturally accept that he looks naturally feminine? [closed]
I was searching about Aromatase Excess Syndrome and I read some case studies about it and I was imagining if bioengineering/Synthetic Biology was used to create a man with such a condition( not ...
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What would climates be like outside areas of controlled weather? [closed]
If weather was controlled in circuitous paths of airships, Swipes lets call the rainbands, where it rains predictably every 7 days, and these Swipes were 1000's of miles apart, what would the other ...
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How to justify the coexistence of countries with different levels of development? [closed]
Note: The word "culture" refers to a collective of peoples and countries using the mentioned technologies.
So I'm running into the problem that I want multiple technological environments in my world ...
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How does a wing membrane from shoulder to knee affect the clothing of a humanoid?
This species called Artisans has a second shoulder on the lower half of the ribcage which extends into a pterosaur-like wing, and a membrane that goes from the wing shoulder down to about the knee. I ...
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How many cultures can a world have without being too complicated? [closed]
I'm trying to create a dystopia that takes place on Pangea Proxima, and I'm using Azgaars Pantasy Map Generator to do it. As you probably know, Azgaars has a feature where the map has different ...
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