Exploring Alien Culture (part 3)

Things change from generation to generation, and it is not uncommon to see some cultures experience radical shifts between generations. The plant-like Erwani in Solar Echoes have experienced a very distinct cultural shift, and the two generations are so at odds with each-other that they cannot co-exist. The older generation of Erwani, referred to as the “Elders,” are naturalists and despise anything technological. The are adamantly against the use of technology, and remained so even during the wars against their aggressive planetary neighbors, the Omul. The younger generation of Erwani recognized that the Omul's technological superiority was likely to win them the war, so these young Erwani studied and began to embrace the use of technology themselves, even integrating technology through grafts with their bodies. Though the younger generation was were able to defend against and minimize the Omul assaults to protect the Elders, the Elders refused to acknowledge this aid and attributed the Omul defeats to their own battle prowess. The Elders subsequently banished the younger Erwani for their connection with technology, though these young Erwani still graciously maintain their efforts to protect the Elders from afar. There can be notable disparity between generations experiencing cultural shifts today, and I have witnessed, first-hand, extreme differences between immigrants and the children they have raised in America. In some cases, children raised in America cannot communicate with their own parents—the children have become fluent in English from the public school systems while their own parents never learned to speak it!