It's the kind of thing that makes you wonder why, huh? I mean, if mages are still common enough where you're from, and other races, why are they all gone in Saint Ivalice? Even if it was the isolation thing, or even... just not liking other races, I'd have grown up hearing about how someone was "stupid like those Bangaa" or "maybe your dad cheated on your mom with a Viera" about my hair. You'd still hear things like the big regional hospitals for the really serious, life-threatening injuries having white mages who're trained up to curaga, or "that's nothing a cure can't fix", but there's nothing like that at all! [That... has more than the slightest touch of 'THIS MAKES NO SENSE AND I HAVE BEEN SITTING ON THIS RANT FOR A WHILE'. Just... just a little.]