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All their lives, they have been told about how the members of the other race are their sworn enemies and can never be trusted.
Their minds are filled with how bad the members of the other race were and this has created a preconceived bias in their hearts against other races.
'Has our elders been wrong all this time?' Some thought about it more deeply.
If these words were coming from someone without strength and renown they would scoff at him for his foolishness.
But these were words from a figure that is above the most powerful men that they knew.
This can be called an effect of strength. As even though the man before them is long dead, they still had the utmost respect for him.
But then again, 'old habits die hard'.
The middle-aged man waited a bit for his words to sink in and nodded in approval seeing that no one dismissed his words and thought deeply about it instead.