Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4010415-20141223120240/@comment-25555436-20141224142426

^It's a common concept in fiction for the humans to be afraid and jealous of something that, while very similar to them, it's superior, and from that fear and jealousy comes hate and racism.

Examples include the mutants from X-Men, the Biotics from Mass Effect, and the Mages from Dragon Age, and the list goes on and on.

Everything a human can do, a faunus can do better, and that's not including the Night Vision or any abilities their animal traits could give them. Humans know that, and that's why they fear and hate them.