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            <h1>Interesting Facts</h1>
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            <h3>Do's and Do Not's</h3>
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            <b>Do:</b>
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                        Offer to share with others
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                        Respect the region you are in, especially the natural aspect - this
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                        culture has survived in the Artic for thousands of years living off the land
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                        Refer to your point in a roundabout way without being too direct
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                        Respect the elderly - they are revered in the Inuit culture due
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                        Show value to the group - the Inuit are an egalitarian people
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                        Cooperate as much as possible - this leads to a promotion of
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                        Ask "Where are you from?" when greeting an Inuit for the
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                        Find a mediator when a conflict arises - the elderly
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                        Refer to an Inuit as an Eskimo - even though some
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                        Physically contact another person without their permission in
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                        Approach the people as religiously foreign - some Inuit have
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                        Give store bought produce to an Inuit
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                        Yell - Inuit believe yelling leads to the deafening of reason
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                        Give an "Eskimo kiss" or nose kiss - this is reserved as a
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            <h3>Throat Singing</h3>
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                        Throat singing was a cultural form of artistic expression brought
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                        has seen an influx in Inuit culture.
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                        Sounds and words with meaningless syllables are commonly used in the
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                        songs. Inuit singers take create new words from ancestors, current
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                        events, animal sounds, or just noises of everyday life.
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                        Inuit throat singing develops a cultural identity among the youth. In
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                        an era of globalization, the Inuit have been left to fend for themselves
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                        dealing with integration and survival of their culture.
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                        Throat singing allows the Inuit to connect with their own cultural past.
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                        The Inuit have a tradition of taking vengeance others if they do
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                        someone wrong, raiders in particular. Most of these tales are not
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                        Breaking Inuit law resulted in corporale punishment, as the tradition
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                        of vengeance goes. The story of  Atanarjuat shows that "within a
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