Master Of None

Chapter 2867: 2867. Culture Differences and Similarities

Remey was watching the arguments about the building of the alchemy labs, the herbalists storage, and the general storage for elemental materials. She was the one that Walker had pushed to coem and see these things, but as she listened in, she was not at all too happy.

While Walker was supposed to be handling the issues related to different cultures, she was now listening to the issues clearly.

”How is a dwarven alchemist going to get to these things? You made the damn shelves taller than what the elves can even reach!” The argument was only growing as one of the human builders was being shouted at by an alchemist’s assistant who came to check out the current building.

”And what? You want me to change the entire building blueprint for you? At least an elf would have the brains to get a ladder!”

”If you idiots want to argue, go outside and just call yourselves demi-humans. They are all about fighting.”

The last comment started a whole loud argument between the three. Dwarf, human, and elf all arguing about a single storage area.

It seemed to Remey that she had encountered a clashing of the races due to size and ability to utilize space the same as others. While this was expected because it was entirely unavoidable, she knew that it would be better to step in.

She didn’t though.

She noticed that one of the supervising builders had been drawn over. Unsurprisingly, they were a dwarf as well, however, the grim look on their face made it feel to Remey that she did not need to step in. sp she waited to see what would happen.

”All three of you are banned from working on anything. You will go and move the stones that the earth mages instruct you to move. You will do so for the remainder of today and the whole of tomorrow. The next time I hear any one of you making comments about other races or even your own and fighting about it, I will have all three of you delegated to the lowest jobs regardless of your talents or skills.”

The ruling silenced the three. It appeared that the two hammers on the belt of the supervisor were enough deterrence that they wouldn’t act up. Yet, Remey also grasped the fact that the supervisor had come to these punishments because they had dealt with this situation more than once.

”Miss hero, I take it you were waiting to speak with me about the tools and storage here?” He had noticed Remey standing aside too and from his words he was not surprised at all that she let him handle the workers fighting.

”I was, but I am more interested in the problems I have been seeing since I got here.”

A long sigh came as the supervisor brought about papers showing a few storage room blueprints. ”Each room is made similarly. We don’t have everyone prepared for those who would need assistance. Some races can’t even carry what would be on the shelves in the first place. Or they would damage the areas where we store things because of their size or natural traits. The harpies had sharp talons which carve up wood badly.”

”And no rune formations are able to be placed until the building is finished to protect them. So everywhere that we have materials stored right now is inconvenient for most people.” Remey saw how this would create constant tension since certain races might be in need of help at all times. Even with simple things like getting a few nails for the wall they were placing.

”Exactly that. It is showing us just how easy it is to group in one another. But that’s a growing pain. What we need more are tools that help people to work better. Extensions that can grab something from a high shelf. Carts that can wheel around heavier items. Or even someone that can craft protectors for legs or elbows for those who might hit their legs and arms where some would not.”

It was brilliant but seeing that the supervisor was struggling here, she understood that he was unable to make any of that happen. But his grim face changed in toa smirk. To him, she was the lucky clover that would make that all fixed. ”And better hats to protect our heads, damn heavy pieces of wood keep being dropped by people trying to show off their strength!” The shout followed Remey as she went to recruit a few crafters who could do just this.

Protective equipment was not the most shocking thing to be making, but Remey knew that it would be valuable to everyone as the building of Genesis as a whole continued. It would also help a lot of people.

Therefore, when Walker saw Remey darting back he wondered what she was doing and why she had a whole squad of younger crafters of various types with her.

He had just finished a conversation about languages and how even with the translation of the world system and world’s will, that having language skills would be ideal. How some languages were easily read and translated and some were impossible. Some of those working to organize books and explain why they would be valuable teaching materials for each culture could only fight about which would be ideal.

While the books could be figured out by onyx who was assisting within the library, it was Walker who found himself in the position outside meeting the carriages, where people argued about what to categorize certain tests and how they would be used to teach others about them.

He noticed and heard the chatter about making protective gear for the crafters that would fit all sizes and even assist in getting materials more easily. He had already watched those going over the potential teaching plans for just languages fall in to arguments about how easy for the dwarves it was to write a language with fewer meaning in their words but also how the elves made too many words with too much lengthy chattering to get a single meaning across.

Both had been offensive, but both had been a clear cut example of a problem that Remey had already solved for the most part. Or at least she was already solving it right now.

”I already see the issues clearly. You all are having trouble deciding how you will teach the languages and how the culture classes will be organized because of differences in original languages and the changes over time. You are all right to be arguing, but you should not be adding stereotypes to how other languages are made.”

Walker focused on the dwarves, ”is it not true that the dwarven race focused on crafting over all else? So why would you spend so much time crafting language when you could focus on skills and talent you saw before you? What about the elves? You focused on the in depth symbols and meaning to mana and nature, so why would you wish to lose some of those feelings by shortening your language as a people?”

The questions sounded more like Walker was starting a class of his own. ’What are the connections to how each language developed? What happened within these cultures that caused changes to language and what may we expect from Genesis as cultures come together and as the world’s will translates languages becoming one unified language over the years?”

He was pushing them to consider that if they separated everything and made it all about one race in its own box, that their class goals for education would begin to fall apart. That by the time they taught each and every student these separated boxes, they would be outdated.

”We are building the tools right now for the future to look at each culture and their origins as a whole. They can then look at the cultures together and how they changed once they began to unify. Each had importance different to the race, but now, they hold new meanings as both our foundations and as our growing future.”

His words were lofty, but they fit him and who he was. It also made all the educators that had been fighting about lesson plans for just language realize they had become too narrow minded by judging one another and their languages alone. They should have been considering how what they were teaching would keep changing over time. To the point separating each language class would cause more trouble than anything else.

”I believe that having one language class that reviews importances of languages in relation to their cultures will be ideal. Students may select more classes that focus on specific ones first. But we need to make sure we focus on the general foundations beyond all else.”

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