11-22-2016, 06:26 AM
(11-22-2016, 05:20 AM)Adriano Neres Rodrigues Wrote:(10-27-2016, 07:44 AM)jsgrimm45 Wrote: What is the reasons behind the fear in Grimm/Wesen relationships? Is it bias or genetic? As both are not pure human could evolution have played a role? Another question are Grimms also wesen?
Hi jsgrimm45.
I think the show gives signs the grimm/Wesen fear is a learned thing. Almost all wesen (including Monroe) have stories from their parents about how dangerous it could be for a wesen to deal with a Grimm. There few wesen types that worked with Grimms in the past and apparently they don't fear the Grimms today, like Chavez type wesen.
There was also that turtle type wesen that was killed by the Grimm with Darwin that Nick read about. That wesen never saw grimm before so they didn't feared the Grimm.
But looking to real life there is a theory called Dual inheritance theory (DIT), also known as gene–culture coevolution or biocultural evolution. It holds that genetic and cultural evolution interacted in the evolution of human beings. In other words, cultural traits alter the social and physical environments under which genetic selection operates. For example, the cultural adoptions of agriculture and dairying have, in humans, caused genetic selection for the traits to digest starch and lactose, respectively.
This can be considered in the show and applyed in the grimm/Wesen relationship. Don't you think?
About the grimm being wesen question I think the show never completely explained what a wesen really is. I mean... Lá llhorona for example... Was that a wesen or something else? If wesen is any magical or like human animal being not pure human, a Grimm is clearly not only human. A Grimm is human and something else. By this I think grimm is closer to wesen than to humans.
Seems like the old nature verses nature dilemma which has been a topic of conversations for years. I mean Monroe has books from when he was a child causing him to fear all Grimms and Nick was told by his Aunt and in a different way his mother and the books he inherited that all Vessen are bad