Sheila, you wrote:  "With all these interesting cultural beliefs I think 
that those of the tribes living between Mexico and the North Pole are 
probably the worst!" 

Those tribes have a collective name: the Nacirema.  You may enjoy this: 

https://www.msu.edu/~jdowell/miner.html 

I was given this explanatory paper to read in 9th Grade (in California) by a 
social studies teacher who was himself from Ghana.  I reflected on it a lot 
during my ethnographical PhD study. 

Magda Sachs
Breastfeeding Supporter, The Breastfeeding Network, UK

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