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A culture shaped by frontier conditions around freedom, egalitarianism, independence, and self-reliance.
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borderland culture
A culture shaped by frontier conditions around freedom, egalitarianism, independence, and self-reliance.
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Borderland cultures emphasize freedom, egalitarianism, and self-reliance, which Jiang says makes them formidable warriors despite lacking cities, writing, or formal technology.
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"...looking at it. A better way of looking at it is culture. In the borderlands, there's a certain culture that develops because it's the..."
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"...conquer the empire? And my argument to you is cultural. Sorry, culture. It's cultural. All right? So we have this prejudice or misunderstanding about..."
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"three, their kids were learning how to swim, how to row boats, how to cook, how to hunt, how to fight, how to ride..."
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"An empire and a borderland culture, they are almost complete opposites of each other. Their advantages mirror their disadvantages. They compensate for each other's..."
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