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The matriarcal cause unites half the globe

Jews, Roma’s, and Native Americans, along with a few other nations, are matriarchal societies.
They represent millions of individuals who carry their identity according to the mother.
In a patriarchal world, where these definitions are aligned with the father’s lineage or representations, the matriarchal cultures often encounter difficulties that can go all be way to threaten their very survival.
The centuries long painful experience of Jews and Roma’s as well as that of Native American Nations, is proof enough to make one wonder how balance can be achieved.
Women make up half of the world population, yet they have no significant representation in terms of societal models based on matriarchal identity.
Women established identities must be respected.
Judaism is a model framed by woman based identity.
Even the Cohen lineage loses any validity if it is not consistent with an Israelite woman lineage. All males who marry these women must be circumcised before they marry them.
All of them must ascribe to their culture laws and customs.
However just being born from them gives them their identity, not what they believe in, or how much they know of their culture. The culture is based on the demands of women who will pass on that matriarchal power to create identity to their daughters indefinitely.
Patriarchal cultures have different priorities. A person is called after a territory or a statehood, and their loyalty are to these. Matriarchal society says one’s identity and bonds of loyalty are primarily to one’s mother and family, and beyond that extending the respect to other mothers and families across the world. Respect of the law in the matriarchal world means studying and understanding not only blindly obeying.
Attention to words becomes essential. The studying is made through stories and traditions carrying the memories of the matriarchal nations.
Another important point is that matriarchal cultures are generally nomadic.
This sets them apart from concepts of owning land, territory and borders, and fighting over it, dear to patriarchal societies. So two notions seem to emerge from these perspectives. One is there is no representation of matriarchal cultures in the global decisions, on the level of what would be called accepted governance.
The second concerns the rights of nomadic societies and their representation in general culture. The answer to these dilemma could unite half the planet, and make the other half learn something new.
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