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So much change in just 97 years?

posted 8 years ago by joshua-browning2415
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Would so much change really happen in such a short amount of time? Let's start with the cultural changes. The people on the ark have a distinct culture with new religion, new cultural phrases (ie "May we meet again."), etc. The grounders and reapers have their own separate tribal cultures with a whole new languages, and seemingly no knowledge of the past.

And talk about the physical changes to earth. I know there was nuclear fallout but come on! They keep showing the Lincoln memorial, so we know they're in the middle DC, but absolutely no other signs of man-made structures??? No city ruins anywhere?

[–] joshua-browning2415 8 years ago

the one thing I think would have changed, hasn't really. although there's probably no pc way to do it, but to still have the separate races within such enclosed communities? I feel like there would have been much more racial blending, and the surviving human race would have been largely homogenized by that point. Especially the one's from the ark...