Also, if you pick a race and pick the right native town, you get a special stat enhancing ring. Example: If you be a Hume or Galka, if you choose Bastok you will get the Bastok ring. If you're an Elvaan and choose San d'Oria, you get the San d'Oria ring, and finally if you pick Tarutaru and Mithra and are from Windurst, you get the Windurst ring.
What, because they're tanner than Humes? Or because they're more aristocratic, which would denote more goldsmithing, while Bastok would be good for tanning?