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                <li class="ltop"><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>
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                <li class="top"><a href="ira.html">Religion</a></li>
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                <li class="top"><a href="susana.html">Language</a></li>
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                <li class="top"><a href="parham.html">Business Communication</a></li>
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                <li class="lbottom"><a href="ryan.html">Environment</a></li>
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                <li class="bottom"><a href="maricela.html">Family Life</a></li>
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                <li class="bottom"><a href="matt.html">Social Norms</a></li>
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                <li class="bottom"><a href="interesting.html">Interesting Facts</a></li>
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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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                <li><p>Offer to share with others</p></li>
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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 to their life experiences
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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 face for both parties
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                    Say "Where are you from?" when greeting an Inuit for the first time - this is the common introduction
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                Find a mediator when a conflict arises – the elderly usually take this role
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                Refer to an Inuit as an Eskimo – even though some may not feel any resentment to the term
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                Physically contact another person without their permission in public – this value changes regionally
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                Approach the people as religiously foreign – some Inuit have converted to Christianity through missionaries
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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 mother and child interaction
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                        Throat singing was a cultural form of artistic expression brought
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                        from Asia by the Inuit. Priests originally deemed throat singing
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                        illegal. As the ban was lifted 20 to 30 years ago, throat singing
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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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                <img src="images/general/rjc_inuit.jpg" alt="Inuit Throat Singers" />
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                Inuit Throat Singers (source:
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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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                        the elders, and a breach meant that the victim and his or her relatives
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                        could seek out restitution or revenge."
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