Talk:Ethnic Detinans

As important as hair color is in Detina, no one speaks of "dark-haired people" as such. As you point out, they just go by Detinan, which is highly problematic. Detinan describes a civic as well as a racial identity, and in terms of political self-identification Rollant was infinitely more Detinan than Gremio. In an attempt to sidestep this issue, back in the first wave of WBtP articles we coined the phrase "ethnic Detinan." Not a lot of textual support for that phrase, but it can be inferred from the source material. It also has a certain precision that "dark-haired people" lacks.

By the way, while we get almost no non-American or even early American history analogs from the series, the little we do get, such as Napoleon's nightmarish retreat from Moscow, suggests that parallelism applies as closely there as it does in Detina. That being the case, it's surely no safer to assume that ethnic Detinans all descend from Mother Kingdom emigrants than it is to assume European-Americans are all of English or Scottish extraction. Turtle Fan (talk) 06:38, September 26, 2013 (UTC)