Carthage

Masada said:

That's a sizable distance given that you don't have to go more than a few kilometers before you hit starting hitting villages who speak a different dialect. Proximity is also no guarantee of anything. My wife's village isn't related to the other villages in the immediate area Their relations are from another area somewhat further away. There's also considerable resentment because two of the other villages in the area are related and use that to leverage all the development funding.

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I'm not arguing any of what happens in your wife's corner of Southeast Asia. I'm am simply arguing that it has no bearing on what happens in mine. Hell, even in my corner, the cultural patterns of my Lao friends barely relate to those of my Hmong friends, which again are irrelevant to those of my Lahu friends, which are unrelated to those of my Akha friends, which are essentially alien to those of my Khamu friends. Not to mention all the other cultures in the area with which I am basically ignorant.

I don't doubt for a moment that things are as you state in the part of Indonesia from which your wife hails. I'm a bit baffled as to why you think I do.

Masada said:

I was just providing an example of why names matter. You asked how that example was relevant to small villages. I provided a more relevant example.

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Where have I said village names - names you claimed don't exist, or at least are too ephemeral and/or amorphous to qualify as such - are not important? I just don't see how referencing dynastic founders renaming their capitals has anything to do with our original disagreement about whether or not villages in Lao have names in the first place.

taillesskangaru said:

> Talking about Southeast Asia as if it's a common cultural region

> Laughs

But wait, isn't this a thread about Carthage?

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Well, once Dido researches Wheel, her free harbors mean there's no reason for her not to plop down a city or two to pick up Gems in Burma, Silk in Thailand, and Spices in Indonesia.

Or Village names in Laos!