The way fictitious races are handled in today's cultural climate is a shame. It truly is a disservice to storytelling and art.
Yup.
There's quite a lot of topics that simply don't get handled very well in stories simply because of modern day cultural climates and the recent trend of people getting offended by any little thing that doesn't even impact them.
Races and their culture are often never truly explored and when it is it's often just "They're just humans that look different" with the occasional trope of "Elves live in giant hollowed out trees because nature goddess or something".
It's one of the more disappointing aspects of fantasy settings, there's so much potential for other races to have completely alien cultures to explore.
