The human refugees who came to the Hinterlands could only stay as guests. Yu Lin Bloodhawk would never let them enjoy too much beyond that.
Once the war ended, the vast majority of them would have to leave and return where they had come from. This was not their home! Nor could it ever become their home! If it did, the High Elves of Quel'Thalas would have no home of their own in the future.
Some might have considered Yu Lin Bloodhawk a racist, but he would never admit to being one. At most, he would acknowledge being a nationalist.
He believed the greatest difference between racism and nationalism lay in the persecution of other races.
Both racism and nationalism put the interests of one's own people first, but racism actively persecuted those outside that group, while nationalism only struck back against outsiders when its own people's interests were threatened.
Racism excluded and persecuted everyone outside one's own race. Even when that exclusion and persecution offered no benefit to their own people, racists would still carry it out.
Nationalists, however, would not. They would only take certain actions when those actions benefited their own people. Once they obtained what they sought, they would stop rather than continue targeting a particular person or race.
Yu Lin Bloodhawk believed he could be considered a nationalist at most. As far as he was concerned, he had never actively persecuted any race that entered his sphere of influence without reason.
In Yu Lin Bloodhawk's eyes, all non-High Elf races who entered his sphere of influence were either guests or unfortunate people given shelter.
Not all these races carried the same weight in Yu Lin Bloodhawk's heart. They had their own rankings. But he considered that perfectly normal, just as it was normal to have