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==Culture== | ==Culture== | ||
Fully excluded from high culture and insulated by poverty and discrimination from passing cultural trends, the Harsitem have been mythologised as having preserved a more rough, original, and authentic Coscivian culture than neighbouring "clean" populations. No one overarching ''harsitex'' culture exists, but distinct | Fully excluded from high culture and insulated by poverty and discrimination from passing cultural trends, the Harsitem have been mythologised as having preserved a more rough, original, and authentic Coscivian culture than neighbouring "clean" populations. No one overarching ''harsitex'' culture exists, but distinct ''harsitex'' subcultures do exist among most of the major regional cultures of Kiravia, which exhibit many convergent commonalities with one another. For example, most ''harsitem'' communities speak a distinct sociolect of the surrounding majority language, which often includes many archæic features lost in the mainstream dialects. | ||
===Religion=== | ===Religion=== | ||
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''harsitem'', especially those in the South and those from butchering families, were likely to convert to [[Islam]] when the religion began to spread in Kiravia. The adoption of Islamic hygienic jurisprudence by Muslim converts and the practice of halal slaughter presented ''harsitem'' with an opportunity to present themselves and their lifestyle as clean, or rather, having ''become'' clean, to their fellow Muslims. Conversion also offered ''harsitem'' the opportunity to disguise their lineage by changing their names and giving their children opportunities to marry non-''harsitem''. Around one tenth of Southern Muslims and one-fifth to one-third of Muslim Kir come from ''harsitex'' backgrounds. | ''harsitem'', especially those in the South and those from butchering families, were likely to convert to [[Islam]] when the religion began to spread in Kiravia. The adoption of Islamic hygienic jurisprudence by Muslim converts and the practice of halal slaughter presented ''harsitem'' with an opportunity to present themselves and their lifestyle as clean, or rather, having ''become'' clean, to their fellow Muslims. Conversion also offered ''harsitem'' the opportunity to disguise their lineage by changing their names and giving their children opportunities to marry non-''harsitem''. Around one tenth of Southern Muslims and one-fifth to one-third of Muslim Kir come from ''harsitex'' backgrounds. | ||
In the post-Kirosocialist era, some ''harsitem'' have adopted neo-Protestant forms of Christianity or joined {{wp|new religious movements}}. | |||
==Crime== | ==Crime== | ||