How do integrated Aslans live?

[Ulsyus]

Been re-reading the thread and most of the discussion, even my post, revolves around the MALE and his drives, if we now include the female and drives. An Aslan family owning a large 15-20+ story tall building living in the top 5-7 floors and the male using the roof and top floor or two as 'his' lair (man cave) wile renting/selling sections of the lower floors to the lower classes of Aslan might allow to integrate and consolidate. This could give rise to the 'nice and safe' feel, but a business area that only the honest and honorable go (no PCs here ). If the buildings were large enough each building could be like a mini-clan.

Just my Cr0.02

That's a really effective way for Aslan families to acquire their own territory. Adopted!

The think I often ponder is how much of the Aslan's behaviour is truly driven by hard-wired biological evolution and how much of it is simply cultural practice.

There are plenty of terrestrial examples of cultures that viewed themselves as superior in from one to all measures. That hasn't stopped people from that culture moving elsewhere and their descendants changing cultures. Elements of some terrestrial cultures have produced tensions between "natives" (for the sake of the argument I'll just allocate that to individuals who happily identify with their current culture ahead of that of their ancestors) and newcomers who feel torn between two different worlds. We see it today. But we've seen it for millennia already, so it's nothing new really.

GURPS Traveler mentions aslan who have lived in proximity of humans in human space for centuries as racially but not culturally aslan and adapt to human culture turning their backs on their old culture. True aslan consider them disgraced and worst than aliens.

The GT Alien Races 2 book lists this under Aslan psychology:

A deep-seated territorial instinct causes the Aslan to be obsessed with owning land. Males covet land for its own sake

Which takes me back to the question: how much of a sophont's behaviour is driven purely by their biology and not subject to conscious and possibly rational modification, and how much is within their ability to chose?

C.J. Cherryh wrote

culture is how biology responds to its environment and makes its living conditions better.

Her books set in the Foreigner universe explore the idea of how some concepts just don't map across from one race to another.

Because the campaigns I've run were set in the Spinward Marches and generally only dealt with the Joes and Sword Worlders these aren't things I've had to take a definitive line of tack IMTU, so seeing everyone else's ruminations is pretty useful.