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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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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
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face for both parties
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Ask "Where are you from?" when greeting an Inuit for the
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first time - this is the common introduction
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Find a mediator when a conflict arises - the elderly
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usually take this role
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<b>Do Not:</b>
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Refer to an Inuit as an Eskimo - even though some
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may not feel any resentment to the term
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Physically contact another person without their permission in
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public - this value changes regionally
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Approach the people as religiously foreign - some Inuit have
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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
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mother and child interaction
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<h3>Throat Singing</h3>
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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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Inuit Throat Singers (source:
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<h3>Oral Tradition Facts and Myths</h3>
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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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accurate accounts, but self serving myths.
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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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community, punishments were meted out by community decision, or by
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the elders, and a breach meant that the victim and his or her relatives
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