Board Thread:Lore and Fanon Discussion/@comment-11406405-20140312021236/@comment-6335668-20140312031733

Since it came up, I'd like to actually address the Maya issue a little now what the debate's cooled.

To speak of the Maya as extinct is to ignore a vibrant surviving culture in central America, where a significant number of people of descent primarily from ancient Mayan peoples speak one or more of the Mayan family of languages. They face significant discrimination and prejudice against them from the dominant cultures of their provinces and countries, and that discrimination won't be helped by pretending they no longer exist. It's a disservice to an old culture that's managed to survive, in a battered form, the ravages of the entire colonial period and which is now beginning to try and grow again.

If anything comes of this debate, I'd rather it be an awareness on the part of this wiki's editors that the Maya still exist than a simple settlement over what terms to use for our fictional nonsense.