So guys there is one questiion wow races on what tribes it reminds u? To me I would say humans= ofc we,dwarfs reminds me alot on scottish worgens=reminds me on start on old England,now we have Night elves,gnomes dranei i dont know where to sort em we have horde orcs reminds me on vikings,tauren reminds me alot on Indians,Trolls reminds me on Haiti alot,here we have undeads blood elves and goblins i dont know where to sort em… and sethrakis reminds me alot on ancient Persia
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Undead - with all those Tesla coils i would suggest Mad Scientist Lab
Blood Elves - Evergreen and peacful lands, some sort of gardens in big kingdom.
Night Elves - wild races who live in the jungle in borneo etc.
Gnomes - hobbits in general
Draenei - aliens from outer space
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Ofc and firgoted Pandaren they reminds me on China
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Especially Kung Fu Panda anime 
also Kul’ Tirans as Inuit because of their fat, they look like they live in great north.
Ye and ZT again Haitu and Jamaica
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Taurens must be from Switzerland because someone has to give all that milk for fine chocolates or maybe Argentina coz its famous for all that good beef meat ![:laughing:](https://d1bg94bbsh66ji.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/laughing.png?v=6" ":laughing:")
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Hahaha good one 
essential ye reminds alot on kungfu panda 
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It’s a fantasy game, they don’t have to equal to what we see in the real world.
However, some of the races we see in-game do take some inspiration on our culture. What I infer fo the way they are represented in-game are:
Tauren / Highmountain - American indians
Orcs / Mag’har - Africa
Trolls - Jamaican / Caribbean
Zandalari - Mexico / pre-hispanic cultures in America
Worgen - British
Undead - Northern Europe / British / German (?)
Night elves / Nightborne - Asian
Goblin - Jew people (I know this may sound anti-semitic, but it’s the way Blizzard chose to portray this race with all the Jewish stereotypes).
Humans - humans in general (lacking in races because humans are a race in itself in the game).
Pandaren - Asian
Draenei / lightforged - Aliens
Blood / Void elves - sterotypical elves from novels / sci-fi, etc.
I’m not sure about gnomes. I guess they only draw inspiration in techologically advanced societies as seen in some cyberpunk manga / novels / films.
Sorry if I forgot any race.
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Draenei show a lot of Greek/Turkish stuff mixed with protoss.
You have elekk which were mounts of Persia and Alexander the Great.
Some of the Draenei naming is taken from Greek mythology (just from top of my head is Argus, which is a lot of things in Greek mythology… Also Austrian beer).
Only thing for the life of me I do not understand is why they have Slavic accent.
Tauren are obvi native Americans
Trolls are Jamaica or something like that.
Orcs are… Nothing in particular?
Zandalari are apparently heavily inspired by Aztecs.
Hoomans and Worgens are obvious.
So are dwarves.
Blood elves are I think the only race without any real life reference.
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elaborate pls, i need to know, while i am melting my silver and breathe heavily…
on a serious note, by their style and dialogues, they are meme collection of Brit stereotypes
Taurens seem similar to the Navajo Pagan Tribes.
Night Elves make me think of the Scots and Irish since they’re generally Druids and the Cat Sìth was sometimes interpreted as a Witch that could turn into a big Cat.
Draenei seem similar to Russia.
Trolls seem similar to Jamaica.
Undead actually make me think of the Gothic or Vampire Sub cultures rather than Races.
Nah, we dont have a prophet or spaceships, neither we came from some other world/ universe/ dimension and have some piety tbh. most importantly our females dont have hoofs, i have checked.
We are forsaken, cause well nobody likes us for our leader`s actions, but we are loyal and hardworking lot.
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Dwarves - Irish / russian
Nelves - indochinese matriarchal societies
Draenai - hindu
Orcs - African tribes
Tauren - na indians
Trolls - Caribbean africans
Zandalar - mesoamericans
Worgen - brits
Goblin - jews
Pandas - chinese
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KT - brits again
Forsaken - germans
Hm Tauren - na indians
Di dwarves - irish / russian
LF Draenai - hindu
Gnomes, belves - from literature.
Velves & nbelves are irrelevant
Dranei have an indian vibe to me, with their eleks and dance moves. Then their accents are russian lol
They must be balcanians xD
What?
The Kvaldir are viking inspired, but I never ever saw the orcs as it.
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W… what? Nightborne are CLEARLY French.
Kvaldir reminds me alot on Norse folks xD
More accurately, Kung Fu Panda reminds you a lot of Blizzard’s warcraft series. The Pandaren Brewmaster predates KFP by many years 
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