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I mostly concur. Over the years I have realized that genetic determinism is a much bigger factor that abrahamo-occidentally conditioned minds like to admit. I see two vectors that might have an angle of up to 30 degs between them: 1. intrinsic religiosity & 2. sense of group ID
https://twitter.com/GhorAngirasa/status/1719376801431212167
The best situation for a group is when there is a greater alignment between these vectors & they have a large magnitude. IMO, H tend to have relatively low alignment and moderate magnitude of the group ID vector. Thus, it is common (especially in South India) where there has been
shielding due to vijayanagara & marahaTTa-s encounter folks who have moderately strong religiosity vector but weak group ID vector which are not strongly aligned either or vice versa with the group ID coming from the Dravidian languages. I suspect in fission-fusion ape societies
like those seen in Homo & Pan it was good to hedge the bets in individuals between sticking with the parent group &merging with other groups, with a potential sex-specific exaggeration of this kind of behavior. In the past social ties with the extended family & ethnic group were
were almost life&death issues -- an ostracized person did not have much of support structure unless s/he merged with the alternative group with which they aligned themselves. Hence, there was a degree of regulation in terms of how much the non-conformists could depart from group
ID or even religiosity. The modern social structure &globalization 've reduced this considerably. Hence, barring groups with strong group ID or where religiosity &grp ID closely align &reinforce each other there will be a constant leakage from the group irrespective of upbringing
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