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Yeah you're right. I guess I mean outright ignoring one part is worse than not focusing on it. For example with language, you could just say there is a language but not actually flesh it out and translate things, or even just have a babel fish universal translator contrivance.
Although I was also thinking more like the Bangladeshi independence struggle, which was rooted in linguistic identity. It's one thing to never explain why the aliens in the MCU all know English, but entirely ignoring the role of language in human history seems flawed.
Especially since I consider language and culture in general as important to species-essence or human nature as much the ability to perform labor, so it should be present in the dialectic of history