the words for snow thing is bunk, which makes me question everything else you wrote since it probably came from the same source.

When I read this book...the first thing I thought was..."great, survival up north meant that the group needed each other so much that they never even thought about killing a fellow village/tribe member" and second..."great, free love/sex openness like a commune or something...sexual sharing...no big deal, no marriage or what ever"

Whaling ships used to go from Whitby, North Yorkshire to Anchorage. Having worked in Whitby and met some of the men from there this wouldn't surprise me.

Seriously though, I just don't understand rape. If a woman didn't want sex she wouldn't enjoy it - so neither would I. How can you do really interesting things if she's got her eyes closed?

While I am not very familiar with the "Eskimo" languages, you can bet they did have words of some sort for Rape and Murder because it was not terribly uncommon between tribes/villages.

Nanook of the North was a movie I used to show during the Niagara Falls Winter Festival of Lights. Though entertaining, it is not a good source of cultural information.

English didn't have a word for the German 'schadenfreude', until it adopted the word itself a few years ago. But watching someone try to walk through a glass door when it's closed has always been funny, as long as they don't seriously injure themselves.

The male drive to force himself on a female who doesn't want sex is seen in other mammals (dogs being a good example.) Human society may have been supposed to rise above it, but it's still there at an instinctive level, since the male's biological purpose is to spread his DNA as far and wide as possible. The only way a society ends up not having rape is if you ignore the need for both parties to consent. And it's funny how often religion excuses that. It's in the bible that it's okay to rape a woman as long as you marry her (and once married to her, you can presumably rape her as often as you like) and Islamic fundamentalism continues to treat a captured female as a sex slave. A perfectly acceptable way to behave under their interpretation of Sharia.

Murder is similar. People will sometimes want to kill each other. Sometimes they go through with it, either because they think they can get away with it, or because they are sufficiently psychopathic that they don't consider the potential consequences.

I don't believe for a minute that any human society is immune from rape or murder.

Oh. Agglutinating language. Like German. So, to say hard snow, they put words for hard and snow together to make a new word.
So, 35 words for anything.

Talked to an anthropologist who was in a village when a man came into a woman's hut in the middle of the night. She asked if the woman was afraid of being raped. Then she had to explain the concept, and the locals found it laughable.
I gather the idea of a man annoying of a woman and then exposing your penis and balls to attack seemed ridiculous.

Wow, what if rape and sexual violence isn't inherit to humans?
It might just be western culture, and rape really is about power and male privilege.

Without digging much into it... does not meant did not happened. I read native american couldn't understand the concept of land ownership. And then europeans brought progress.

Cultures that depend on cooperation to survive would probably have much less problems with rape and murder. My hunch is that the more a people depend on civilization it would follow the less civilized they are to one another.

But they do have 36 words for snow. It's whatever's relevent.

Well the thing is that just because they don't have the words for these acts, you cannot infer that these acts were absent in their culture.

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Well, when you have to wear the amount and type of clothing required to survive in those conditions, I am surprised they were even able to have consensual sex.

I've also heard that. I also read that Gauguin and other Europeans introduced venereal disease to Tahiti and the other Pacific islands.

It's also true in other parts of the world, including the US. Many of the indigenous people of the world were doing just fine, until white Europeans showed up. Then, everything turned to shit.