Ummm...[she stammered a bit, it was a lot going from just talking about where she lived to such a serious topic.]People have been well not nice to each other based on race, gender, sexuality and other things pretty much forever. But uh, from history classes I've taken I have heard back then it was pretty common to say "we're all human" as short hand to say those differences were less then skindeep.
[She took a deep breath before continuing.]
When Subspeices humans first showed up, absolutely no one knew what do with them and many people began to think that "We're all just human" didn't apply to us. Like scientists didn't know where they came from, let alone how to integrate them into society. For example, snake-like humans don't have legs and couldn't get into many public places, aquatic types have to be in water for hours a day or they will get sick, and harpys like me -we're lucky honestly- have hollow bones that break far easier then normal humans. It took decades for things to even reach an "acceptable" level of legal protection and societal integration.
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[She took a deep breath before continuing.]
When Subspeices humans first showed up, absolutely no one knew what do with them and many people began to think that "We're all just human" didn't apply to us. Like scientists didn't know where they came from, let alone how to integrate them into society. For example, snake-like humans don't have legs and couldn't get into many public places, aquatic types have to be in water for hours a day or they will get sick, and harpys like me -we're lucky honestly- have hollow bones that break far easier then normal humans. It took decades for things to even reach an "acceptable" level of legal protection and societal integration.
That's what I mean by "complicated."