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Not really true.
Tom Brosz — (archived)

In each case you mention, some individuals in each group do exhibit the traits you describe. But many others from the same groups have eagerly taken the changes and new opportunities, and run with them. You don't see them in the little dying villages. They already left.

This is how cultures progress.

Don't confuse the dying out of a way of life with the dying out of the people who have lived under it. There aren't a lot of tepees on the Dakota plains any more, or buffalo hunts, but there are a lot of Native Americans in suits and ties working in skyscrapers. The great thing about cultural evolution is that the individual can survive the process.

In 1980, only about a quarter of Native Americans (including Inuits) lived on reservations. The rest live throughout the rest of the U.S.

All human cultures have gone through this process of cultural "creative destruction."

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