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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 1073733" data-attributes="member: 891">Government is run by a counsil of wise men - chosen by and based upon the social ranking and good graces of their mothers (mom can kick you off your position if she so chooses). (Iroqoi)The society has a fully developed constitutional government complete with the seperation of powers into three branches... but it is oral and memorized by tribal sages and bards rather than written (Iroqoi).Enemies captured in war (male, female, old and children) are ritually tortued to death while they scream curses at you and your family to ensure their honor and yours in the afterlife (Iroqoi and Huron).If you've lost a family member to war, you can demand the warriors who bring back captured enemies give you one of them. It is then your right to decide if that person will be ritually tortured to death to avenge your family, made a slave, or be adopted to replace your lost family member and from that point on live their life as if they had been born into your family. (Many natives in the Northeastern USA and Canada)All male members of a losing tribe in warfare are killed - even the babies. The females are taken as wives and can even then rise in status in the tribe (many dark ages northern european tribal societies - as well as their classic age ancestors).To keep land from being split, brothers will marry the same woman (Tibet).Clothing is unheard of as we know it, but members of the society tattoo or scar themselves to denote position and fashion (some amazonian and african groups - possibly others as well in hot climates).Nobody talks back to or challenges the old women who were/are mothers (seen in many urban hsipanic and black communities in the USA).A woman without a husband or male relative has no legal rights to property, wealth, or even food (some plains Indians as well as pre-industrial age Anglo-cultures (USA for example - save for the right to life)).The bodies or some part thereof of the dead are eaten by the relatives (common in many traditional cultures, still done in Madagascar today if I remember correctly).When a person dies the body is left out in the home for three days while every subordinate family member able to reach the place in time must come and sit watch without sleep until the time has passed. During this time everyone gets stone drunk, chants, or dances about (modern Korea, in a form - very interesting when my neighbors in Songtan did this).The culture has no idea that sex leads to pregnancy. They think it is merely a gift from the gods (at least one African tribe I studied in an Anthro class at Berkeley).A woman of upper class birth never leaves her home during her entire life except for the period when she is transferred from her father to her husband (Chosun Dynasty Korea which ended in 1910, and classic age Athens for Athenian women - foreign women could move about freely).The door to a home never faces north - for that is the direction of ill fortune (China and Korea, maybe Japan as well but I don;t know on them).It is more important to make everyone feel comfortable when communicating than to speak truthful - true meaning is kept in the inuendo (Korea's concept of Kibun).When a subject or question is uncomfortable, ignore it and don't respond or speak of something else (Korea).Individualism is the root of immoral behaivoir, a good person seeks to ensure group harmony (Korea dna Japan).Male children between upper caste members of society and untouchable lower caste women are abducted and raised by the father's family, but it is forbidden to speak of this (parts of India and Pakistan - unknown custom until DNA tracing discovered it and deniability became impossible).This is common in much of Asia, and is growing among sanitary focused Californians as well <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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