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So You Think YOUR Cultural Identity Is Not Of Your Own Making...


JSngry

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I've read some persuasive arguments to the effect that the precise reason that something is taboo (e.g., cannibalism, incest) is because it is/was so tempting to people. We seem to think that our aversion to eating human flesh is a part of the natural order of things. Not so, according to modern social science. Rather, our aversion is cultural. We say that it is wrong and unnatural precisely because, once upon a time, it was something we did quite often.

I've heard tell that human tastes not like chicken, but rather like pork. This is the reason that some Australian aboriginal tribes referred to human meat as "long pig." It's the other, other, white meat...

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