A fascinating reddit post about romulan culture

[Unimatrix Q]

A really great and interesting post from the Daystrominstitute on Reddit about secrecity in romulan culture and how it might have affected their relationship with the Federation, that i read today and want to share for discussion.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DaystromIn...crecy_and_its_impact_on_interstellar?sort=new

 

[EmilyRobertson]

Yep, that is really was interesting! Thx you for sharing!

 

[EmilyRobertson]

https://www.reddit.com/r/DaystromIn...crecy_and_its_impact_on_interstellar?sort=new

 

[FederationHistorian]

That was a really thought provoking post .

 

[publiusr]

Does Reddit have any ship art that doesn’t make it here or to scifi-meshes?

 

[Unimatrix Q]

Does Reddit have any ship art that doesn’t make it here or to scifi-meshes?

Seen some ship art in a few trekrelated subreddits, but i'm not sure how much of it is also published or linked to here.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Reading this article makes me think of a concept I read about learning Japanese, ‘Tatemae’ vs ‘Honne’, the way you publicly present yourself vs how you really feel.

This article presents a similar view of Romulans - They have a clean mental separation between the public self and the true self, whereas other cultures conflate the two and put the two in conflict. People see their public self as their private self, or deny the needs of their private self because the discrepancy with the public self causes anxiety.

Romulans are more honest about their dishonesty, and it could have caused a cultural clash when the Romulans assume dishonesty and subterfuge. The Federation reaches out a hand in peace and they assume it’s just their public persona.

 

[Unimatrix Q]

OTE="JirinPanthosa, post: 13786643, member: 47440"]Reading this article makes me think of a concept I read about learning Japanese, ‘Tatemae’ vs ‘Honne’, the way you publicly present yourself vs how you really feel.

This article presents a similar view of Romulans - They have a clean mental separation between the public self and the true self, whereas other cultures conflate the two and put the two in conflict. People see their public self as their private self, or deny the needs of their private self because the discrepancy with the public self causes anxiety.

Romulans are more honest about their dishonesty, and it could have caused a cultural clash when the Romulans assume dishonesty and subterfuge. The Federation reaches out a hand in peace and they assume it’s just their public persona.[/QUOTE]

Yep. And i especially like how well it works for some incidences and romulan characters in TNG. Talking especially about the romulan commanders in "The Neutral Zone", Alidar Jarok, Tomalak and Pardek.