APPROVED. The Jedi are canonically very much in favor of acknowledging one’s birth culture and readily embracing differences. It’s ridiculously easy to demonstrate, so I will:
- Jedi wear very different outfits and seem free to choose them. Obi-Wan has traditional tunics when Ahsoka is likely dressed like a typical Coruscanti teenager (she’s clearly picking her own wardrobe, since she keeps wearing her movie outfit even after becoming Anakin’s Padawan), Luminara and Barriss have dresses and head coverings from their homeworld, Shaak Ti wears a (jewelled) headdress from her own people as well as an elaborate dress, Anakin gets to wear dark colors without anyone criticising him for it and Aayla’s clothes are the furthest thing from monastic. Even the younglings (aka, the tiny kiddos, not even Padawans) get to wear very different tunics in their TCW arc.
- Jedi are allowed traditional tattoos or symbols. Luminara and Barriss have Mirialans tattoos, Quinlan is covered in yellow markings (since he’s a Kiffar), Depa has Chalactan piercings, and the Grand Inquisitor had, like most Pau’ans, very faint red tattoos under his eyes when he was still a Jedi - according to Kanan’s vision at least
- Jedi have different accents. See Obi-Wan, Aayla Secura, Shaak Ti, Even Piell, Kit Fisto, Eeth Koth, Rig Nema, Yoda… Many of them sound like Basic isn’t their first language, which indicates that Basic isn’t the only language spoken in the Temple, and that it’s not forced upon younglings - and seeing as Gungi the Wookiee kid only speaks Shyriiwook, and Byph (one of the other younglings) doesn’t wear a vocal emulator like we’ve seen some members of his species (Ithorians) do, this is 100% solid canon and not speculation.
- They have a droid teaching lightsaber construction, indicating that they aren’t a bunch of stuck up luddites with superiority complexes over non-organics. They even call it Master.
- Jedi have very different lightsabers (design and color wise, although the crystal itself determines the color), and Padawans are obviously allowed to pursue the technique that suits them best (see Ahsoka.) Krell has two double-bladed staffs, Yoda has a tiny saber, Ahsoka has a shoto blade and she holds both of her sabers in reverse grip, we see curved hilts, etc.
- The High Council has basically ten different species represented in it at any given time in canon, you can check. Seeing as there are only twelve members, that’s a huge deal. The Senate, in comparison, is far less diversity-oriented (see Naboo, whose indigenous species only get a “representative” when the human population has had senators for hundreds of years now - also see the CIS, who are, strangely enough, mostly non-human systems. Almost as if the Republic has a problem later reflected by the highly xenophobic Empire, a problem entirely absent in the Jedi Order.) There are also tons of examples of cross-species apprenticeships (Anakin-Ahsoka, Quinlan-Aayla, Kit-Nahdar, Yoda-Dooku, to name a few), and in contrast Mirialans only seem to take Mirialans, in keeping with their customs. Almost as if diversity was encouraged but boundaries were respected. Hmm.
But yes, tell me again how the Jedi are evil child thieves who brainwash their victims into being repressed and identical and incapable of self-expression.
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