No, I think Sarek was unmistakably a loving parent---Vulcan reserve be dammned (which is why I sort of want to strangle a certain Memory Alpha article. You can be a very reserved person and still be loving!). But then he is Spock's father, and he chose a career as a diplomat and to marry a human woman. He's not typical for a Vulcan. 8} I was thinking more of the Vulcans outside Spock's family, and how the Vulcan people felt about hybridity in general.
I didn't really get the impression that all Vulcans were xenophobic from the film, but I suppose that was because I put down both the children and the one elder who called Spock's mixed blood a 'disadvantage' as not representative of everyone on the planet.
No, it's true that they're not representative and shouldn't be taken as such. But they are the only Vulcans aside from Spock and his family who have speaking roles. And these are the two main scenes featuring Spock with his people, and they're both hostile encounters. I can see how it's easy to come away with a negative impression of Vulcans. And while on the whole, fic dealing with the Vulcans have been nuanced, a lot of the ones I've read dealing with Spock growing up and his relationship with his people, paints that relationship as hostile and disapproving of him and his mother.
It is canon that Vulcans are quite insular as a people, and have a bit of a superiority complex. (Which to be fair---is not entirely unfounded. On average, they're smarter, and stronger than humans,
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No, it's true that they're not representative and shouldn't be taken as such. But they are the only Vulcans aside from Spock and his family who have speaking roles. And these are the two main scenes featuring Spock with his people, and they're both hostile encounters. I can see how it's easy to come away with a negative impression of Vulcans. And while on the whole, fic dealing with the Vulcans have been nuanced, a lot of the ones I've read dealing with Spock growing up and his relationship with his people, paints that relationship as hostile and disapproving of him and his mother.
It is canon that Vulcans are quite insular as a people, and have a bit of a superiority complex. (Which to be fair---is not entirely unfounded. On average, they're smarter, and stronger than humans, ( ... )
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