#American draftsmen

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View from a Window, Genoa John Singer Sargent (American; 1856–1925) Watercolor and oil over graphite ca. 1911 The British Museum, London. © The Trustees of the British Museum

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A Chief Justice interprets the 2ND Amendment

The Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees a "right of the people to keep and bear arms." However, the meaning of this clause cannot be understood apart from the purpose, the setting, and the objectives of the draftsmen. At the time of the Bill of Rights, people were apprehensive about the new national government presented to them, and this helps explain the language and purpose of the Second Amendment.

It guarantees, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." The need for a State militia was the predicate of the "right" guarantee, so as to protect the security of the State. Today, of course, the State militia serves a different purpose. A huge national defense establishment has assumed the role of the militia of 200 years ago.

Americans have a right to defend their homes, and nothing should undermine this right; nor does anyone question that the Constitution protects the right of hunters to own and keep sporting guns for hunting anymore than anyone would challenge the right to own and keep fishing rods and other equipment for fishing. Neither does anyone question the right of citizens to keep and own an automobile.

Yet there is no strong interest by the citizenry in questioning the power of the State to regulate the purchase or the transfer of such a vehicle and the right to license the vehicle and the driver with reasonable standards. It is even more desirable for the State to have reasonable regulations for the ownership and use of a firearm in an effort to stop mindless homicidal carnage.

Former Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Warren Burger

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Clarence Wesley Wigington (April 21, 1883 - July 7, 1967) was an architect, born in Lawrence, Kansas to Wesley Wigington and Jennie Mary Roberts. He was the fourth of twelve children. He was raised in Omaha, where he completed high school.

He secured a position as clerk in the office of architect Thomas R. Kimball, where he advanced from clerk to student draftsman, to junior draftsman. He opened his practice in 1908. He was instrumental in designing homes, churches, and some business-related structures in Omaha.

He moved his family to St. Paul, Minnesota. In May of 1915, he sat for the civil service examination where he registered the highest score. He is believed to be the country’s first African American municipal architect, a remarkable achievement given the few African Americans who were practicing architects, and the fact that he did not have a formal architectural degree.

He was promoted to the position of Senior Architectural Designer, where he was responsible for the day-to-day operations of that office, he could never aspire to be the City Architect, a political appointment.

The corpus of his work was in municipal structures, many occasioned by the City of Saint Paul and the Federal government through the Works Progress Administration. Another body of work reflected businesses, private residences, and religious buildings. Approximately 108 municipal structures in Saint Paul are attributable to him as a draftsman or in charge architect. An additional 48 structures, designed and/or built across the country, have been attributed to him. He is known for designing six ice palaces for the City of Saint Paul Winter Carnival, two of which were completed and two whose construction was halted by unseasonably warm weather.

He moved to Los Angeles, where he struck a friendship with Paul Williams, the most prominent African American Architect in the state. In 1950, he and Williams reactivated the California Chapter of the National Technical Association composed of African American architects, engineers, chemists, and draftsmen. In 1963 he and his wife moved to Kansas City, Missouri to live with their daughter. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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How to Find the Best BIM Modeling Services for Your Project

Building Information Modeling (BIM) has reformed the AEC industry, enabling experts to effectively configuration, develop, and oversee structures utilizing canny 3D models. In the US, BIM programming has acquired broad reception among firms. A 2020 American Foundation of Draftsmen study uncovered that all enormous design firms use BIM for billable work.

Be that as it may, carrying out BIM effectively requires mastery and a thorough comprehension of the idea, presenting difficulties for some organizations. Factors like expense impediments, time limitations, talented expert deficiencies, and foundation necessities add intricacy to the cycle.

DEFINING YOUR BIM SERVICE REQUIREMENTS

The principal critical stage in finding the ideal supplier of BIM Reevaluating Administrations in the US is to unequivocally characterize the necessities of your undertaking. It is fundamental to distinguish the particular BIM administrations you want.

For example, do you require 3D BIM Modeling Administrations, which include making an itemized virtual portrayal of your building project? Or on the other hand maybe you really want conflict identification, an interaction that distinguishes and settle clashes or conflicts between various building components or frameworks before development starts. Another significant thought is amount departure, which includes precisely assessing the materials required for your task, helping with cost assessment and acquisition arranging.

Contingent upon the intricacy of your task, you might require a mix of these BIM administrations. By plainly getting it and indicating these prerequisites, you can successfully limit your pursuit and recognize a supplier who can take special care of your venture's necessities. Whether you require BIM administrations for a solitary undertaking or continuous work, definitively conveying your necessities will guarantee a smooth and productive joint effort with the picked specialist co-op.

RESEARCHING BIM MODELING SERVICES PROVIDERS

Whenever you have distinguished your necessities, now is the ideal time to explore organizations offering BIM modeling administrations. Directing intensive examination is vital to tracking down the right accomplice for your task. Start by playing out a Google search to order a rundown of potential BIM specialist organizations in the US.

By directing exhaustive examination and assessing the organization's history and mastery, you can pursue an educated choice and pick a BIM specialist co-op that is appropriate to meet your venture's prerequisites really.

PROFICIENCY IN YOUR PREFERRED BIM SOFTWARE SOLUTION

BIM can be made utilizing different programming stages, and not all organizations might have aptitude in every one. In this way, searching for an organization with a group of experienced BIM experts with the fundamental abilities and information to deal with your undertaking utilizing your favored programming is significant.

During research, ask about the organization's insight and knowledge of your picked BIM programming. Check in the event that they have the necessary affirmations, like BIM Level 2 authorization, exhibiting their obligation to industry principles and best practices. It is additionally critical to guarantee they stay refreshed with the most recent BIM innovation and programming progressions.

COMMUNICATION AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT SKILLS

Choosing the right BIM re-appropriating specialist co-op requires cautiously thinking about their correspondence and venture the executives abilities. Viable correspondence is critical for meeting project necessities and fulfilling client assumptions.

During the assessment interaction, ask about their correspondence systems and how they intend to comprehend and shape your vision. Furthermore, look for clearness on how they will keep you refreshed on project advancements and any progressions in the modeling system.

Search for a supplier with a clear cut correspondence procedure, guaranteeing normal updates on project progress. Expeditiously resolving any issues or worries that might emerge is additionally fundamental. Assess their venture the executives framework, as a vigorous way to deal with project the board guarantees effective coordination, convenient consummation, and fruitful results.

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It is a measure of Cassatt's skill at this time that she was accepted by one of the most sought after teachers in Paris, Jean-Léon Géróme . Géróme, a younger master, was considered to be one of the most talented draftsmen of his generation and represented a new wave of realist precision of detail applied to exotic and historic subjects. Her friends back home in Philadelphia, who knew Géróme only by reputation, were stunned. When Thomas Eakins  began studying with Géróme later that year, he was bombarded with letters from such friends demanding details about Mary Cassatt's great coup. To their mutual friend Emily Sartain he wrote that he did not know much about it, but “from what I know of Géróme I think the whole story extremely probable”! and later another astonished friend, Charles Fussell, wrote back to Eakins asking for all the details of “how Miss Cassatt was honored by Géróme's private lessons.”

Aside from her lessons with Géróme, Cassatt plunged into the other round of activities that filled the days of Parisian art students. She very quickly obtained a permit to copy paintings in the Louvre, and began to spend a good part of every day there. If contemporary drawings and prints of the galleries of the Louvre are reliable, the corridors were filled with a thicket of easels clustered around the more popular paintings . Most of the easels belonged to art students who were copying as a means of studying the techniques of color, brushwork, and composition of the old masters. Others in the crowd would turn their copies into something more than an exercise. As professional copyists, they took orders primarily from tourists for copies of famous paintings in the Louvre and made a respectable amount of money for their efforts. In the years immediately after the Civil War, American tourists constituted a major market for such copies. Elizabeth Gardner, for instance, very quickly became proficient enough to subsidize her education by executing copies for clients. Even Cassatt later carned money in this way.

In the period from 1865 to 1870, when Cassatt haunted these corridors as a student, she was joined by such American friends as Eliza Haldeman, Howard Roberts, Thomas Eakins, William Sartain, Henry Bacon, Frederick Bridgman, Howard Helmick, Elizabeth Gardner, and Imogene Robinson. Of the French artists of importance to Cassatt, one finds listed in the cop: register the names of Jenny Sisley, Edgar Degas, Eugene Delacroix, Louise  Abbéma, Pierre Cabanel, Paul Cézanne, Berthe and Edma Morisot, and Mme. Joseph  Tourny. This international group did not necessarily mix, and letters indicate that the French and American women were particularly cool toward each other. For those who did know one another, the Louvre was unquestionably the social center of the young cliques in Paris.

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Artistic Qualities of Graphite

The refinement of the pencil unlocked an ether of potential and creativity to the average user. Art has often been at the forefront of cultures throughout history but many were barred by expensive ink, oils, acrylics, mosaics; with graphite harnessed into a singular rod, it unlocked a stepping stone into the artistic world. William Laurel Harris (an early American painter) described the pencil as, “the revival of an ancient craft… which forces the student to search out in every object the qualities of elegant design and simple, effective pattern.” (Harris 315) The pencil in all its simplicity is deceptively hard to master because the skill ceiling is very high. To begin; graphite rods are made in many different diameters, as I mentioned above mine is .5 mm, but rod sizes vary vastly increasing the possibilities of precision. More important; however, is that advanced draftsmen and artists follow a pencil hardness scale varying in thickness and amount of graphite shed. It’s scaled from 9B to 9H, B meaning soft and H meaning hard.  A typical number 2 pencil commonly used is also considered a 2B and is a bit softer than the middle graded HB. (Art in Context) Most people use pencils in the middle of the scale because it allows for easy sharpening  while still applying a generous amount of graphite to the paper. Thinking artistically, the softer graded pencils are used for broader expressive strokes, perfect for capturing emotion. On the harder graded pencils, the more clay prevents large flakes of graphite from depositing on the page creating the perfect pencil for drafting and precision line drawings. 

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The Evolution of Midcentury Design Drawings While draftsmen still copied drawings into the modern period, a variety of chemical and mechanical processes for reproducing architectural drawings developed out of the 19th and 20th centuries. The diazo process replaced cyanotype as the dominant printing process for most of the 20th century. Instead of a blue sheet with white lines, the process produced a white print with blue lines, and was also known as a “blueline” drawing or “whiteprint”. Diazotypes used a similar chemical process to the cyanotype. A drawing was made on mylar or another translucent surface, placed on chemically coated paper, and exposed. The American Institute for Conservation lists 14 different types of processes for reproducing drawings they discovered while conserving the New York Botanical Garden Library’s collection of drawings. This list is a basically a summary of the history of blueprints in the midcentury: Aniline prints Cyanotypes Diazotypes Electrostatic prints Ferrogallic prints Gel-lithographs Hectographs, (handmade) Pellet prints Photostats Sepia prints Silver halide prints Stencil duplicating (mimeographs) Spirit duplicating (hectographs, machine made) Van Dyke prints

The History of Blueprints - PlanGrid Construction Productivity Blog

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In 1940, Rolls Royce and the British government turned to the American manufacturer Packard Motor Car Company to assist with the wartime production of the Merlin engine. ⁣ ⁣ Packard’s role in the history of the Merlin gets glossed over when it was much more significant than just license production. Of all the Merlin engines built during World War II, 1/3 of them were built by Packard in the United States, but more importantly, it was Packard that made the Merlin mass-producible. ⁣ ⁣ Prior to engaging Packard’s assistance, the Merlin was built in small production lots that were near-hand built with some variations from production lot to production lot. Packard took the Merlin design and made subtle changes (primarily to accept American accessories) that essentially standardized the Merlin design with proper production drawings and measurements to allow mass production on *both* sides of the Atlantic. ⁣ ⁣ Packard assigned 200 draftsmen just to prepare drawings of the Merlin design and then in a short period of time lined up second and third tier suppliers to mass produce an engine that as superb as it was in its early marks, wasn’t originally designed to be mass produced. ⁣ ⁣ That this conversion took place *and* without sacrificing the performance of the Merlin engine is Packard’s legacy to the Merlin’s history as one of the iconic aircraft engines in history.⁣ ⁣ #Avgeek #aviation #aircraft #planeporn #KRBD #RBD #airport #planespotting #NorthAmerican #P51 #Mustang #instagramaviation #igaviationcontest #Avgeekery #mil_aviation_originals #USAAF #instaaviation ⁣ ⁣ #AvGeeksAero #AvGeekNation #AvgeekSchoolofKnowledge #TeamAvGeek (at Dallas Executive Airport) https://www.instagram.com/p/CER8sf0BlTg/?igshid=1dqksy2yfyifw

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Sir M. Visvesvaraya's life is a motivation in itself. He was envisioned in Muddenahalli in the Chikkaballapur Taluk of Kolar District (Mysore State), on the fifteenth of September 1861.

He finished his hidden direction in Chikkaballapur, by then he came to Bangalore for forefront guidance. He joined the Central College.postcard news

In Karnataka, his records of battle during his school days and how he utilized Street lights to think during his understudy life is the thing that each parent tell their young people.

Sir MV came to Bangalore with his pocket vacant and with no roof over his head!

A family from Kodagu, was searching for a guide for the youngsters. Visvesvaraya, himself an understudy, changed into their coach. He lived with them what's more earned a few rupees.

Nothing finished this chap, despite the way that despondency stricken he stood high in the B.A. Assessment in 1881. He got some assistance from the Government of Mysore and joined the Science College in Poona to assess Engineering. In 1883 he arranged first in the L.C.E. moreover, the F.C.E. Evaluations (these took after the B.E. Assessment of today).

His thriving as a modeler and Diwan of Mysore is really momentous. Let us see barely any dull stories which uncover his life standards.

Once visvesvaraya was working with pen and paper in murkiness with a light. His companion came to meet him. Visvesvaraya immediately blew the light, brought another arrangement of light, pen and paper close to his accomplice. In the wake of being asked, on why he did subsequently, Visvesvaraya tended to "That was office work and I use it just thusly"

Right when he got a letter from his companion referencing a spot to remain for a few days, he proposed to remain in the association visitor house. Visvesvaraya made game plans for his partner to remain at the association visitor house by paying a month's lease of 250 rupees.

He utilized the association vehicle just for his official clarification. Despite the way that he didn't have a vehicle from the beginning he didn't utilize the association vehicle for his own works.

He was an exceptional man with committed points of view. He was ensured to his work and ensured he utilized office working environments just for the workplace purposes. He never misused his forces, rather than different individuals in power today.

Age was No Barrier!

To find a few solutions concerning metallurgy methodology he caused an outing to USA with his other Indian creators at a to create age. An American authority indicated them new sorts of gear and methods. They went over a goliath machine with 75 foot stepping stool. The remainder of the draftsmen who were youthful stood apart from visvesvaraya vacillated to step forward yet he was the main individual to begin climbing.

Visvesvaraya lived for a long time and he never considered age a cutoff to build some new accommodating data for the length of standard everyday presence. He never let his create age and physical shortcoming shield him from having a go at something new.

Time Sense :

Visvesvaraya was never late for his work . He worked from 6am to 8pm and was viewed as a readied man and when it went to his work he was unimaginably strong and controlled.

His time sense didn't extra a pastor who was 3 minutes late for a social event. The minister expected to take visvesvaraya's proposition to be on schedule.

It's said that his time sense entranced different individuals that there were occasions of individuals setting time in the wake of seeing him.

Offering Back to The World :

It was when Bhadravati Factory was in an issue and visvesvaraya was the head around by then. It took a few years for the lawmaking body to pay him his compensation, which was in excess of 100,000 rupees. He denied suffering it saying "Start an establishment where youths can get to know some calling"

Individuals expected to name the establishment after visvesvaraya, he denied once more. He referenced that it be named after the ruler in those days, the establishment is "Sri Jayachamaraja Polytechnic Institute" in Bangalore.

Likely, this is the thing that showing a help for cash gathers. Not suffering compensation for his inconvenient work and time, mentioning to utilize the cash for social government help and upon that he denies to acknowledge praise. He was a credible country originator.

Approach Before Work :

He once visited his Primary school in his old neighborhood. Individuals were by then mindful of his incredible accomplishments and achievement. He was moved closer to convey a few words to the youngsters. He addressed only five minutes and got back frustrated. The purpose for his mistake was the unsuitable talk. He expected to make it up . He organized a discussion for the more young understudies, visited the school following a few days again and passed on his discussion.

He generally ensured he planned quite a while before his social events, plans and talks. A high property of different profitable individuals.

Trust In Equality:

It was when British specialists were given most brought regard up in Mysore Kingdom and they were furnished with satisfying seats at the Mysore Durbars during Dasara anyway the Indian ministers were moved nearer to stand or either sit on floor.

Visvesvaraya was totally against this and considering this bifurcation he quit going to Durbars. After rehashed occasions this way, the association chose to pass on seats for Indians also.

Exactly when a British position thought of him a letter to make satisfying pads at the Durbars to rest their feet as the stature of seats were massive.

Visvesvaraya offered a clarification to the letter saying "The tallness of the seat has been reduced" He never empowered bossism and division or treating Indians cleared out. He got a few changes in the association workplaces to treat all individuals equivalent and great.

He was undeniably a man of outstanding deeds, morals and qualities. He presented his life for the improvement of current India and is viewed as a commended master and will dependably remain the credible Bharat Ratna.

We are watching Engineers Day on his birthday.

An amazingly Happy Engineers Day to all specialists.

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The first American animated film was made by Winsor McCay, one of the most skilled draftsmen who ever made cartoons. CLICK to see a gallery of his work. https://animationresources.org/inbetweens-winsor-mccay/ Animation Resources reminds artists about the work of the past to inform the work of the future. If you are a creative person, you should be a member of Animation Resources. JOIN TODAY! https://animationresources.org/membership/levels/

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Anchorite Alice Pike Barney (American; 1857–1931) ca. 1900 Pastel on paper Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

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Presto! Erased in Seconds

The Illinois-based office supplies manufacturer Metal Specialties Manufacturing Company first released a line of “Presto” products in 1939. Originally the line only included pocket and desk-sized staplers, but the firm would eventually create a wider range of products such as this electric eraser. This relatively simple and nondescript device allowed the user to store the eraser in the compartment on the front panel of the housing system. When needed, the user could plug the eraser into an outlet and turn the switch on, making the eraser vibrate. According to the instructions provided by Gaylord Bros., Inc., the library and archival supplies company that distributed the eraser, the user need not apply much pressure while erasing. The eraser’s electrical component would allow the user to erase at the same speed and efficiency as drawing or writing. Also, to increase ease and facilitate use, the eraser could be mounted to a wall.

The product appears to have been targeted towards offices in which considerable drawing or transcription took place. The Consumer Bulletin reviewed the product in February 1962, drawing attention to its convenience for “draftsmen, artists, [and] library workers.” In May 1962, the American Library Association Bulletin also highlighted the product, summarizing the Consumer Bulletin’s earlier article. The eraser received a mediocre review, with the tool’s short life span cited as one of its weaknesses. The article reads, “The Presto [Model 80] was found convenient for occasional small erasures, but for frequent use or for fairly large areas, the small-diameter eraser has a disadvantage because it wears away rapidly.”[1] Though electric erasers have a long history—they were invented by the architect Arthur Dremel in 1932—and still exist today, they have largely disappeared from most offices.[2] This may be, in part, because sometimes operations such as erasing are simply easier when done by hand.

  Ben Green is a graduate student in the History of Design and Curatorial Studies program offered jointly by the Parsons School of Design and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. He is a Fellow in the museum’s Product Design and Decorative Arts Department.

  [1] “Electric Eraser Tested,” American Library Association Bulletin 56, no. 5 (May 1962): 454.

[2] Susan Piedmont-Palladino, “The Invisible History of Erasing,” Blueprints (Summer 2005): 4.

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New Noxus and the Paradox of “Tolerant” Imperialism

Riot is moving in an entirely new direction with Noxus after the retcon of 2014. That, in and of itself, is not a bad thing. Old Noxus was flawed, relatively one-dimensional, and subject to a fair share of complaints - chief among them being the exaggeratedly “evil” nature of the state, from the necromancy, to the demonic possession, to the actual, literal skull mountain.

(Goodnight, sweet prince)

The problem is not that Riot has made Noxus into a fun-loving, puppy-hugging, benevolent bastion of love and acceptance in its rework. This post isn’t about any personal objections to the new direction of the lore. It’s about a fundamental misunderstanding, rooted in long-standing European cultural norms and history, of the nature of imperialism and - and - oh no, you’re already scrolling past this, aren’t you.

In simpler terms: The problem isn’t that Riot has turned Noxus into a bastion of love and acceptance. The problem is that Riot has turned Noxus into an aggressively expansionist war-machine, and seems to think that it is still, simultaneously, a bastion of love and acceptance.

Here are the facts. First, Noxus is still, in Riot’s own words, an aggressive expansionist empire - that hasn’t changed, although it has been upgraded in the new lore from “city-state” to full fledged “empire”. Its expansion strategy resembles that of several historical empires, in that it either allows cities or civilizations in its path to surrender to Noxian rule or conquers them by force. Once a people have been conquered, Noxus does not allow them to continue going about their business as usual while simply levying taxes or taking other benefits, but instead restructures them to align with Noxian ideals and customs, up to and including establishing literal monuments to Noxian dominance in their cities. This is important. A people conquered by Noxus do not remain separate or distinguished from the whole, but instead are immediately considered Noxian, and are expected to adopt Noxian culture and customs accordingly. That comes with Noxus’s rule. These are not arguments - they’re facts, drawn strictly from material on the official Universe site.

Also on the official Universe site is the proposition, repeated multiple times, that the people and cities conquered by Noxus are afforded the opportunity to grow and become better or stronger by virtue of becoming part of the empire. The argument that a conquering nation is somehow doing right by, or doing good things for, a conquered people is older than dirt. There are several different terms for it, pertaining to different time periods and areas of the world. A commonly known one, “the white man’s burden”, specifically refers to the erroneous, imperialist argument that the titular white man has an obligation to rule over non-white people (often colonized nations) in order to “civilize” them or somehow give them a better life. Variations on this ideology were used to justify all sorts of horrendous things, from aggressive missionary endeavors, to the conquest and subjugation of indigenous peoples, to slavery. But the white man’s burden is a relatively new idea, in the grand scheme of world history, while imperialism and the concept of a "benevolent” conqueror are very, very old. 

There’s nothing wrong with Riot casting Noxus as an imperialist empire. It’s an interesting historical context to have and it opens the doors to a lot of different storylines. It’s also relatively faithful to the original design of Noxus as the premiere warmonger in Valoran. The problem is what Riot’s doing with the other half of Noxus’s rework.

Once again, I’ll start with facts. In the same sentence where Riot described Noxus as “warlike” and “expansionist”, they added that the empire is also “unusually inclusive”. In a section labelled “culturally inclusive”, they describe that conquered people can “embrace[] their conquerors’ way of life” and be judged on their worth... or be “crushed without mercy”.

(I took a screenshot because I was afraid that you wouldn’t believe me.)

The problem here is that that isn’t what culturally inclusive means. A culturally inclusive society is one in which people of different cultures are treated equally, not one wherein people of different cultures are forced to assimilate to a dominant one to avoid being crushed without mercy. To get even more granular, a culture can be defined as a set of social behaviors and norms upheld and practiced by a group of people. Some very simple elements of American culture might be consumption of fast food, or the coming-of-age ritual of learning to drive a car. Some not-so-simple elements are a belief in the “American dream” (aka the idea that if you work hard enough for long enough, you will rise in economic status) or a sense of American exceptionalism

A basic element of Noxian culture is the belief in strength (which, to Noxians, means any sort of physical or non-physical prowess in a valuable skill, valuable being defined as “something that can make Noxus better”) as the primary valuation of a human’s worth. Another appears to be tolerance of originally non-Noxian people, as long as they adequately assimilate to Noxus’s regime.

That is an interesting idea for a fictional culture. It is not, however, in any way compatible with 'cultural inclusivity’. In order to continue expanding, building its army, and existing as it wants to, Noxus needs the people it conquers to abandon their own cultures and adopt Noxus’s own. Maybe they don’t have to abandon small rituals from their own cities like, for example, eating fast food - at least, we don’t have evidence of that. But they do have to abandon whatever fundamental value systems they already have (and yes, every people in every society already have one, I promise) and adopt Noxus’s. 

Or be crushed. 

Without mercy.

The problem here isn’t Noxus as a culture, or as a fictional state. It would actually even be acceptable for Noxians specifically to believe that they are a highly inclusive, tolerant state - that’s very common of people living in imperialist nations, and thus very believable. The problem is that Riot is writing the lie of the “benevolent, culturally sensitive conqueror” as a fact, when it’s not only patently false in Noxus’s case but also shows a staggering sort of ingrained cultural bias in the draftsmen. 

The problem is not with the subject of the art, but rather with the perspective. The problem is the artist.