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just in case |
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[Jun. 26th, 2008|11:14 am] |
Many have argued that the vampire is the most mysterious of the Others. These arguments rest mainly on the idea that death is mankind's greatest enigma. From there, one can easily make the connection to the undead. As someone with a finger on the pulse (so to speak) of the vampire community, I naturally find myself fielding questions about their nature. A surprising number have inquired about the nature of different ethnic races within the vampire race, perhaps because my branch of law concerns itself with racial discrimination a great deal.
As with many issues pertaining to vampires, ethnicity is difficult to gauge. Without a reliable census, there's no way of knowing, and the history of vampires is largely oral and unaccessible to most. However, the vast majority of vampires that I, personally, have dealt with in the Denver area are white. A simple explanation for this would be that Denver's coven(s) originated in Europe, and that its members come from a time and a place where racial diversity was nigh nonexistent.
One might even go so far as to assert that this theory reflects vampires as a whole, assuming the species originated where the modern vampire myth did: medieval Europe. However, such an assumption ignore the thousands of years of more primitive vampire myths, spanning across almost every society. Most are familiar with the saying: no smoke without fire, and it is my personal belief that vampires can, and probably do, exist everywhere that humans do, and in all their many forms.
Opinions, please. |
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