Our species have been purposefully kept separate for a long time. I wouldn't pay automatic respect to beorc royalty, so why would they do the same for me? It's not as if we have all of your kind's ridiculous traditions of nobility, either. So your approval or not, it's barely something to get worked up over.

[He just shrugs again. She keeps getting offended on the behalf of the laguz, something that, for the most part, he doesn't even do.]

I'll give you that it's an honorable mindset, at least. Albeit one I have never understood.