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==Culture and Customs== | ==Culture and Customs== | ||
The Eshavians have a stratified, hierarchical culture that places great importance on notions of social rank, propriety, and protocol. | The Eshavians have a stratified, hierarchical culture that places great importance on notions of social rank, propriety, and protocol. The Eshavian reckoning of {{wp|social status}} combines elements of both achievement and ascription: While individual merit, performance, and accomplishment are highly valued and rewarded by Eshavian society, an individual's achievements are heavily contextualised by age, seniority, class, formal educational qualifications, and family background, which can often create status "ceilings" resistant to personal merit. | ||
Although a minority of Eshavians adhere to Sarostivism, Eshavians and Taństans, like the unrelated Lúnstans but unlike most other seafaring Coscivian peoples, have traditionally not observed the Sarostivist-derived taboo against whaling. | Although a minority of Eshavians adhere to Sarostivism, Eshavians and Taństans, like the unrelated Lúnstans but unlike most other seafaring Coscivian peoples, have traditionally not observed the Sarostivist-derived taboo against whaling. | ||
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The Eshavians have a strong {{wp|tea culture}} that sets them apart from other Coscivian-Kiravians, who have generally come to prefer coffee since settling in Ixnay and have developed a coffee culture adapted from [[Culture_of_Caphiria#Food_.26_Drugs|the Hekuvian]]. Eshavian tea culture includes several {{wp|tea ceremony|tea-centred rituals}}, a literary canon of {{wp|Tea classics|tea classics}}, and the inclusion of tea consumption into other aspects of life, such as business meetings and hospitality customs. Like other Coscivians, the Eshavians regularly visit the graves of deceased relatives, and have the unique traditions of leaving cups of tea or burning tea leaves as a grave offering. | The Eshavians have a strong {{wp|tea culture}} that sets them apart from other Coscivian-Kiravians, who have generally come to prefer coffee since settling in Ixnay and have developed a coffee culture adapted from [[Culture_of_Caphiria#Food_.26_Drugs|the Hekuvian]]. Eshavian tea culture includes several {{wp|tea ceremony|tea-centred rituals}}, a literary canon of {{wp|Tea classics|tea classics}}, and the inclusion of tea consumption into other aspects of life, such as business meetings and hospitality customs. Like other Coscivians, the Eshavians regularly visit the graves of deceased relatives, and have the unique traditions of leaving cups of tea or burning tea leaves as a grave offering. | ||
===Marital customs=== | |||
Most Eshavian marriages are endogamous, but patterns of exogamy vary according to social rank and class. Rural Eshavians are the most strictly endogamous segment of the ethnic group, followed by Republican-class Eshavians in metropolitan and micropolitan areas who trace their ancestry to the old yeomanry and lesser nobility of Old Eshav. Eshavians involved in the maritime industry, seaborne commerce, and the navy have traditionally been more open to exogamy, while many aristocratic Eshavian families have intermarried with families of comparably high status from other Coscivian groups. With regard to intra-ethnic marriages, rank, class, and ancestry play a major role in determining whether a pairing is acceptable. Marriages between Eshavians from very different levels of the social hierarchy are strongly discouraged, and families often have strict standards as to which bloodlines are worthy of marrying their sons and daughters. Several services, including both for-profit companies and nonprofit societies, collect information on Eshavian marriage prospects in a particular region, as well as their family histories, and publish this information in annual "marriage almanacs" to help young Eshavians seeking spouses. {{wp|Cousin marriage}} is traditionally accepted among the Eshavians, and in fact preferred among some subgroups. | |||
==Interethnic Relations== | ==Interethnic Relations== | ||