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==Society and Culture== | ==Society and Culture== | ||
Ventarya is culturally rich and has artistic and cultural traditions that strongly reflect traditional Coscivian ways of life in the region, as well as the post-Kirosocialist dynamics of cultural innovation and exchange. There is a rich and varied folk culture, home-grown in the villages and farmsteads which are often depicted as a symbol of the state. Highly cultivated Coscivian classical music and with its own distinct regional style is part of the cultural tradition of Ventarya, as well as a folk music repertoire of songs that depict day-to-day relationships, agrarian and waterside life, and the compelling natural beauty of the state. | Ventarya is culturally rich and has artistic and cultural traditions that strongly reflect traditional Coscivian ways of life in the region, as well as the post-Kirosocialist dynamics of cultural innovation and exchange. There is a rich and varied folk culture, home-grown in the villages and farmsteads which are often depicted as a symbol of the state. Highly cultivated Coscivian classical music and with its own distinct regional style is part of the cultural tradition of Ventarya, as well as a folk music repertoire of songs that depict day-to-day relationships, agrarian and waterside life, and the compelling natural beauty of the state. | ||
The culture of the [[Vexin Coscivians|Vexin Coscivian]] clans to which many of the original settlers of the state belonged is pervasive, and the general culture of the state is built on largely Vexin foundations held in common with neighbouring [[Hanoram]]. Although most of the indentured and bonded labourers who came to form a majority of Ventarya's colonial population did not belong to Vexin clans, many did hail from Vexin-ruled areas of Old Coscivia. Owing to the cultural hegemony of the Vexin landowning élite, immigrants of non-Vexin origins typically adopted elements of Vexin culture and appropriated the trappings of the Vexin lower nobility when they or their descendants moved inland from the Baylands to become landowners in their own right. This gave rise to a Vexinate identity to the resulting Thínoran ethnic identity claimed by most of the state's established rural population, and has left a lasting legacy in the state's traditions, language, cuisine, political culture, educational system, and symbols. | |||
===Population Centres=== | ===Population Centres=== | ||