History Main / HumansAreDiplomats

->''"Humans share one unique quality: They build communities. If the Narns or Centauri or any other race built a station like this, it would be used only by their own people. But everywhere humans go, they create communities out of diverse and sometimes hostile populations. It is a great gift, and a terrible responsibility-—one that cannot be abandoned."''

* ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'' is a somewhat Downplayed example of this trope. The [[UnitedNationsIsASuperpower United Nations of Earth]] is one of the preset human empires in the game whose default behavior is Federation Builders, meaning they will favor creating galactic federations based on mutual benefit to all members, and they start with the Xenophile ethos which favors good relations with other alien empires. On the other hand, the ''other'' preset human empire is the Commonwealth of Man, a highly militaristic and xenophobic empire born from a previous interstellar colonization effort by the UNE gone awry whose survivors have spent decades trying to survive against a harsh and unforgiving environment. And in ''Stellaris'', the ethics of a given polity can shift due to events, so the UNE could drift away from being Federation Builders towards something less altruistic over time (by the same token the reverse can also happen, though given the nature of events that tend to happen in a given campaign this is rarer -- the game is described as "starting out as ''Series/StarTrek'' and ending as ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40K''.")

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* ''Series/TheHexer'': Vesimir, being in the series an old human druid, prefers to use diplomacy instead of swords to resolve conflict with the elves living around Kaer Morhen. His insistance of talking first, killing maybe is one of the factors leading to reveal of [[spoiler: Gwidon's conspiracy and getting him expelled]].

** To be fair, though, the [[BlueSkinnedSpaceBabe asari]] are the ones with the interstellar reputation for diplomatic ability and cultural outreach; humanity, by comparison, is still rather supremacist.

->''"Humans share one unique quality: They build communities. If the Narns or Centauri or any other race built a station like this, it would be used only by their own people. But everywhere humans go, they create communities out of diverse and sometimes hostile populations. It is a great gift, and a terrible responsibility—one that cannot be abandoned."''

* Humans in ''Franchise/StarTrek'' pretty much run TheFederation, and the Federation has been shown to be by far the most diplomacy-inclined power in the Alpha Quadrant, especially when compared to the ProudWarriorRace Klingon or Mustache-Twirling Roman-wannabe Romulans or Fascist Cardassians. It's notable that the Federation is pretty much the only Alpha Quadrant power that is formed from a coalition.

* There is a variant of this in ''Franchise/{{Ben 10}}'': Though humans show great affinity for appealing to other races on an emotional level, it's actually RequiredSecondaryPowers to their true unique skill, which is that humans are universal breeders, able to mate and bear offspring with any other intelligent species in the universe.