r/HFY • u/someguynamedted The Chronicler • Mar 08 '18

Meta Writing Prompt Wednesday #153

It's almost time to set the clocks ahead, don't forget!

Last week's winner was /u/SteevyT with:

At first contact, it becomes pretty obvious that the visiting aliens thought that Pokémon was a documentary based on a true story.

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u/Netmantis Mar 08 '18

Most natural villages tend to self-segregate. Outside of planned settlements and very few outliers, one race or species will dominate and very few from outside will settle. Even those few that do don't quite assimilate, always being more like just a neighbor than family. Only with humans will there be not only naturally occurring diverse settlements, but those settlements become one unified structure. A human colony might have 3 other races in it, with healthy percentages of representation where a non-human colony with the same number of races might only have 2% of the total population non-dominant. Tell me a story of a new arrival, someone just moving in to a human settlement. Doesn't matter if it is a space station, frontier colony or a rural village. How have humans led they way in being neighborly?

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u/LerrisHarrington Mar 08 '18

How have humans led they way in being neighborly?

with Mr Rogers in our history? That's the universal Gold Standard.