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[Mass Effect] If the Asari lifespan can be over 1000 years, how the hell is their culture so progressive?

I mean, I don't wanna sound insensitive, but the main way us as humanity have become more accepting, tolerant, enlightened, etc over the years is because the people who hold bigoted or backwards beliefs eventually die off. And yet somehow, the Asari Republics are governed exclusively by the Matriachs (1000+ year-olds), and they still manage to be the most moderate and welcoming and socially progressive culture by a long shot. Isn't that a bit improbable?
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Are they progressive though, or just a different kind of traditionalist? That Matriarch working the bar is an an example of the possibility that the Asari are at more socially stagnant than they may appear.

Sure, they're welcoming of outsiders, have a tendency towards individual freedom and are sexually open... But they developed almost all of those traits either on Thessia, or very early in their stellar exploration. There's no evidence of any real social or ideological shifts amongst the Asari, and the only person we know of who has voiced concerns over how they run things gets soft-banished to a fringe world and ends up working a bar?