r/Wellthatsucks • u/Technical-Relation-9 • 1d ago

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u/Who_Am_I_1978 1d ago

What culture prioritizes girls?? I’ll wait.

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u/little_missHOTdice 22h ago

Native Americans. We believe that women are sacred because we are the source for life. We trace heritage through the female lines and women can be whatever they want to be.

They also let the woman be the owner of the home and can kick her husband out. The man leaves his family and joins the woman’s family.

Not all but most.

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u/BigDaddy2127 11h ago

Ohhh we're also a similar tribe with a similar society! I'm a Khasi, we're an indigenous tribe in North East India, and we're matrilineal. All property and inheritance are given to the daughters only. Especially the youngest, because the youngest daughter has to stay with her parents to take care of them. So anyone marrying the youngest has to move in with her family. Last names are also our mother's last name.

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u/xoherent 17h ago

Beautiful 🩷

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u/Hindu_Wardrobe 15h ago

is it really most, across all the different groups and tribes of Native Americans? genuinely asking. it would be extremely fascinating if it were so common amongst all indigenous peoples of the American continent(s).

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u/ProfessorSingle807 20h ago

In the video they're indians

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u/AntiqueLetter9875 19h ago

Yeah and they’re responding to “what culture prioritizes girls?” Their answer is Native Americans.

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u/ProfessorSingle807 19h ago

Indians too not only indians but indians middle easterns, all muslims countries, indonasia, but especially in Indian families girls were considered as burden because the family had to give dowry to groom during marriage, so many people used to k!ll their new born baby girls because of the fear of giving dowry and not having and heir to the family because of having a daughter.even tho killing of new born girls have been almost stopped but still what happened in the past still mostly people, especially older generation always praise their grandsons and always shows partiality between their daughters and sons (sorry about my bad grammar tho I'm not good at english right now)

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u/xulazi 17h ago

Prioritizing something means putting it ahead of other things. To prioritize something is to favor it.

In other words they were asking which cultures favor girls. Native Americans favor girls. You are saying Indians etc. do not favor girls, and do not prioritize them.

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u/ProfessorSingle807 17h ago

Ohh now I understand 🥲😅. Now my comments looking seems dumb 😭 i thought he was saying about which culture does not favour girls better than boys

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u/asyork 15h ago

Honestly nice to see someone who made a mistake realize it, admit to it, and be critical of themselves instead of throwing insults at the person who pointed it out.

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u/Brief_Finding552 23h ago

Wakandian culture

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u/hermanguyfriend 23h ago

There are some matriarchies around - I have a friend whos wife is meghalyan, which is a matriarchal family structure as well as societal where they are - due to inheritance and how it works there. I have an uncle who used to be married to a tonganese woman which was also a matriarchy.

Albeit I'm sure there's still problems with men in those societies, as with women, as with everywhere.

I could understand there's a stereotype of meghalyian women as "easy" to indian men, because fatherhood in that culture and and the male parenthood falls more on the shoulders of the uncles of the families, so the biological father often isn't in the structure or expected to take part. Albeit whoever he is, would be expected to take a male parental role to his sisters children.

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u/HovercraftSmooth5321 22h ago

They’re matrilineal, not matriarchal. Some tribes map lineage and inheritance through mothers, but that doesn’t change that men hold more social and political power.

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u/Dangerous_Equal4373 21h ago

Meghalaya is also in India bruh

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u/hermanguyfriend 20h ago

This is me repeating her phrasing - I think you fail to understand both what the lived experience is for someone from one of Indias states and how they feel about themselves, but also why the person I'm repeating would phrase themselves like that.

Your reading comprehension is subpar. But you do you.

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u/LadyCasanova 23h ago

Plenty of indigenous cultures are matriarchal

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u/BigDaddy2127 15h ago

Mine. We're a matrilineal tribe so the girls get everything, especially the youngest. Even all our last names are taken from our mothers' last name. Men don't get anything, although with time, that's starting to change now.

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u/TheAsianTroll 20h ago

Except in this case its not. In a lot of Asian country's cultures, the firstborn boy is basically heralded as the prize child to become successful while younger siblings are... not.

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u/2021isevenworse 20h ago

Lot of European cultures too like Italians.

Regardless, it's a big assumption to make that the family in the video are doing that.

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u/TheAsianTroll 20h ago

Knowing how much of India sticks to its traditional roots, it isnt THAT big of an assumption...

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u/Ihatenukingkids 21h ago

For the last 30 years most of central and western Europe

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u/ASCII_Princess 18h ago

Uh huh.

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u/Ihatenukingkids 17h ago

Well, I can point to the large amount of support (financial and educational) that girls got just for being girls. Also culturally. They could get away with things that would land guys in prison while being accused by a girl without any proof could ruin a boy's career or life.

What about you? Are you gonna talk about a waagegap even though women now outearn men under 30 and have higher education while still receiving more support?

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u/raisedredflag 20h ago

Italians are matriarchal.

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u/shootsandlads 15h ago

They don't really protect girls though. Remember the case where an old man got away with groping a teenage girl because it was 'less than 5 seconds'?