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> Familial and Clan traditons are still a thing. I think that most W.E.I.R.D. (Western) people don't realize how much the rest of the world (for better or wors

• alephnerd 3y ago
  I'd disagree that a relativist argument like Henrich's would hold in this case. Clans as a societal unit was a thing in the West as well. For example, it was a major reason for the Jacobite Rebellion in Scotland in 1745, the Irish independence movement was organized thanks to the clan system in the 19th and early 20th century, etc. Clans as a societal unit disappeared in Western Europe when the Nuclear Family became the primary unit around the 19th-20th century
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  • imbnwa 3y ago
    Every aristocracy and top 1% strata in the world is a clan system, the Windsors are a clan, its simply seen as primitive when people who aren’t either of those do it