Marbur Wrote:There are many who believe that just because the Gaians are based in Bretonia they have to act & look like Bretonians...why is that?
Once a person joins the Gaians, they effectively renounce their citizenship & I've no clue why people would assume that a Gaian would feel any obligation of patriotism to a gov't that would sooner see them dead than look at 'em.
Last time I checked being Bretonian was a national/cultural/ethnic thing and not an idiology.
Even if you dont like what a part of the government is doing and you opose it in some respects, you are still a part of your nation, even if some notorious hail-to-the-chief nitwit says otherwise.
What you are saying kind of sounds like a one dimensional "your are with us or against us" or "love it or leave it" approach which you may find in some extremist group, but thats not how human society works in general.
Even if you have dedicated yourself to preserving the natural biosphere, you may still be attached to friends or familly at home that dont agree with you, and when you see them threatened you will still defend them even if it has nothing to do with the goals of your group. So if this goes down to Bretonia vs Kusari, its not paradox that Gaians should side more with where they come from, unless one of the agendas of Kusari was to preserve nature or something.
If I compared this to a situaion in real life...
My friend fled from the Mullas in Iran and my mom fled from the communists in east germany, but if someone pours out a load of ignorant prejudices and starts generalizing over everyone in Iran or the DDR, my mom and my friend often ended up defending the very thing and environment that they fled from. Even if extremists on all sides will always try to paint a black and white picture, the shades of grey will still always exist in what people see around themselves.