Customs
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Historically, the rich in each low caste emulated the
customs
and rituals of the upper castes, such as child marriage, the payment of dowries, and prevention of widows remarrying.
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I'm thinking here, for example, of
customs
like ancestral worship, of a very distinctive notion of the state, likewise, a very distinctive notion of the family, social relationships like guanxi, Confucian values and so on.
I was a
customs
officer for Canada back in the mid-'90s.
I learned a lot about deception while doing my duty here in customs, one of which was that most of what I thought I knew about deception was wrong, and I'll tell you about some of that tonight.
But the research over the last 50 years says there's actually no reliable cue to deception, which blew me away, and it's one of the hard lessons that I learned when I was
customs
officer.
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