That being said, especially in matters of after death beliefs, humans won’t say “humans believe…”, they’ll add specificity by saying “Catholics believe”, or drop the universal quantifier of “humans” and just say “I/we” leaving the exact contextual bounds ambiguous in the case of “we”.
At least in the Star Trek I’ve seen, Klingons are pretty fucking happy to say it’s the KLINGON way. The KLINGON belief. The KLINGON tradition. Pretty explicitly setting the bounds.
Entirely possible that every subculture is so enamoured with themselves that they really don’t consider other Klingon cultures “true Klingons”. So that’s an explanation.
But even with that, we even see Worf, the same singular Klingon, giving IMO two contradictory versions. Although as another has said, he might have just made one up to be a comfort to a friend.
Well, one infamous trek instance of a human speaking for all is who mourns for adonais: “Mankind has no need for gods. We find the one sufficient”
Klingons are full of braggadocio and disdain for what they perceive as the sheeplike homogeneity of the Federated planets - the Klingon claims have always struck me as less “this is what my culture is” and more “we are not the fucking federation”
Humans rant about going to heaven but they also believe the soul goes back into a newborn child
The royals stood guard over the queen but the tibetans leave their dead to be eaten by animals.
Then we have the indians who barbecue their dead
Which is it
That’s fair. Humans have diverse cultures.
That being said, especially in matters of after death beliefs, humans won’t say “humans believe…”, they’ll add specificity by saying “Catholics believe”, or drop the universal quantifier of “humans” and just say “I/we” leaving the exact contextual bounds ambiguous in the case of “we”.
At least in the Star Trek I’ve seen, Klingons are pretty fucking happy to say it’s the KLINGON way. The KLINGON belief. The KLINGON tradition. Pretty explicitly setting the bounds.
Entirely possible that every subculture is so enamoured with themselves that they really don’t consider other Klingon cultures “true Klingons”. So that’s an explanation.
But even with that, we even see Worf, the same singular Klingon, giving IMO two contradictory versions. Although as another has said, he might have just made one up to be a comfort to a friend.
Well, one infamous trek instance of a human speaking for all is who mourns for adonais: “Mankind has no need for gods. We find the one sufficient”
Klingons are full of braggadocio and disdain for what they perceive as the sheeplike homogeneity of the Federated planets - the Klingon claims have always struck me as less “this is what my culture is” and more “we are not the fucking federation”
That’s another great point. People do seem pretty comfortable speaking about their species as a whole in Star Trek, not just Klingons.