re: Which unfamiliar culture do you want to learn more about?

I would like to have seen Machu Picchu at its zenith.

I watched a documentary about mermaids on the discovery channel and how they were true and alive.

Apparently people have found them so i would like to know their culture.

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.the culture of Lafayette, LA.

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Come spend the summer baw

The indigenous people of North Sentinel island - the most isolated tribe in the world.

I went out to new mexico to drop some cows off and ended up spending a little time on a reservation. It was towards the end of the month and a lot of the folks didnt have drinking money until their checks came in and they were mixing aquafina hair spray with sprite and water and calling it ocean liquor or some shite like that.

Man Navajo creation myths have some crazy shyte. From Wikipedia :

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One day First Man brought home a fine deer that he had killed. First Woman said, "I thank my vagina for this deer." First Man demanded to know what she meant. "I mean that you bring me food because you wish to have sex with me," she said. "But we women could live happily without men. We are the ones who gather the food and till the fields. We have no need of men." First Man grew angry and called all the men together. "The women think they can live without us," he told them. "Let us see if that is true

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For four years the men and the women lived apart. During this time the food that the women harvested became less, because they had no tools, while the men grew more and more food. But each group longed for the other. The women sought to satisfy themselves with bones and feathers and long stones. The men tried to relieve their longing with the fresh meat of animals. One man, K'íídeesdizí, tried to satisfy himself using the liver of a deer. Owl called out to him to stop. "This is wrong," Owl said. "No good can come of this separation. You must bring the men and the women together again." As it turns out Owl was right. From the women who had sought to satisfy themselves with foreign objects, monsters were born out of this. The monsters would go on the terrorize the people wherever they roamed.

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