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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
The point is that societies tend to cling to a cultural characteristic MORE if it is threatened.
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Rimber, a true statement would be "particular agrarian societies have clung to certain cultural characteristics when threatened."
That way you're not making either generalisations, or statements about the future, but indicating what actually has been recorded.
The generalisation of the professor ignored preliterary societies, or most nonEuropean ones.