Arrested Culture Defined

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An Arrested culture (or non-Occupational Ranking) refers to a male group (males racially, linguistically and religiously similar) that has an innate resistance to creating a societal structure based on Occupational Ranking of their Dominant Male Group (DMG). Essentially, male groups of an Arrested culture cannot create four conditions required to sustain an Occupational Ranking system.

(1) The majority of the males live in urban settings; (2) Coin currency; (3) The society is governed by written laws; (4) Occupational titles stratify the DMG.

Male groups of an Arrested culture may exist within a Restless culture [specifically in an urban environment] if they are artificially provided for by an Occupational Ranking male group (i.e. provided occupations). Generally, these males are reduced to selling their labor.

Male groups of Arrested cultures generally favor living arrangements that will be rural and their societal structures based primarily on animal husbandry, subsistence farming, fishing, and/or hunting and gathering.


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The list of countries (male groups) below represents male groups which did NOT re-structure their societies to Occupational Ranking between 1853 (the year Japan began re-structuring its social stratification system) to 1964 (the year Compulsory Inclusionism was created). These male groups I am presuming are of an Arrested culture. In making the list below, the presumptive test I used to determine the male groups of an Arrested culture is based on the following criterion:

1. What if any movement was there by the DMG of each respective country toward an Occupational Ranking system between 1853 and 1964? In other words, which of the four criteria for the existence of an Occupational Ranking system (1) The majority of the males live in urban settings; (2) Coin currency; (3) The society is governed by written laws; (4) Occupational titles stratify the DMG - were present in their respective societies by 1964.

(As to why 1853 is being used here as a demarcation point, click here.)


Note: Each star below represents one of the four necessary characteristics of an Occupational Ranking system that was met (i.e. if the majority of the males of the society are urban, they get one star, if there is coin currency, two stars, etc.)

N/A means either no Occupational Ranking system existed there, or, the society (country designation) had yet to be established at that time.

1) India and Pakistan (People of)
In 1853 - N/A
In 1964 - **

2) Turkey (People of)
In 1853 - ***
In 1964 - ***
* Present day Turkey was once part of the Byzantine Empire, which was a major recipient of Roman and Greek (European) populations before, during and after the fall of the Roman Empire. When the Byzantines were overrun by invading Arabs, Islam became the dominant religion and, because of this difference, they (those Turks of European descent) were - and remain today - permanently separated from their cultural cousins in Europe. This religious difference also will not allow the Turks to become part of the Extended Male Group (EMG) to their European cousins - a fact which has affected their standard of living considerably). Moreover, mainly because of much mixing of the European and Arab blood, the economic arena became less suitable for Occupational Ranking (this is not to imply “blood" determines an Occupational Ranking system. Rather, it is the “appearance” of the male - his race - that assigns him to his male group. His abilities and desires then will be shaped by his male group’ social stratification system).

3) Iran (Persians)
In 1853 - N/A
In 1964 - N/A

4) Chinese
In 1853 - **
In 1964 - **

5) Koreans
In 1853 - N/A
In 1964 - **

6) Indochina & South East Asia (People of)
In 1853 - N/A
In 1964 - N/A

7) Mixed Race European/Hispanic of Central and South America
In 1853- **
In 1964 - **

8) Southern Italy & Mediterranean Islands (People of)
In 1853 - **
In 1964 - **
* Southern Italy and Northern Italy have very distinct cultural differences. To the North is European in its ancestry, whereas in the South it is largely a “mixture” of Arab and European. (Those who visit Southern Italy today will notice that there is little resemblance of the people currently living there to the people represented in the statues depicting the ancient Romans.) This mixture has apparently created the dividing line between two cultures. That is, mixing a non-Occupational Ranking with an Occupational Ranking culture, the offspring will become part of the non-Occupational Ranking culture. At least this is what is being suggested at this point in time. What else could explain the difference between north and south Italy?

9) Societies of the Middle East - of Arab descent (includes
Israelis of non-European descent)

In 1853 - N/A
In 1964 - N/A
* Virtually none of the present day Arab states were formed in 1853.

Israeli society - the Occupational Ranking aspect of it - benefited from extensive European emigration beginning in 1947. It is these European immigrants, clearly, who form the nucleus of the present day Occupational Ranking system in Israel.

10) Malay Archipelago region - Southeast Asia
In 1853 - N/A
In 1964 - N/A

11) Mongolia
Central & South America Indigenous Indians
In 1853 - N/A
In 1964 - N/A

12) All Sub Sahara African males (excluding Pygmies and Bushmen).
In 1853 - N/A
In 1964 - N/A
* The Hausa of Northern Nigeria deserve some special attention as they have hundreds of year’s of history prior to European association of organizing their society by occupational titles. However, it must also be noted that virtually all of the males who did have occupational titles only worked their occupational crafts on a part-time basis, requiring farming to provide for the subsistence needs of themselves and their families. Their urban centers were small by European comparison, but by Sub Sahara comparison were quite large, numbering 10,000 to even 50,000 in the 1950’s (In 1952, the city of Kano had an estimated population in excess of 150,000).
* More than 99% of Sub Sahara African males lived in rural environments in 1960.

* Trading in Africa by Europeans was done mainly with shells (Cowries) from the 16th to the 18th Century.

13) Japan
In 1853 - N/A
In 1964 - ****

As of 1964, only Japan has emerged as an Occupational Ranking male group outside of the European race.
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These male groups have been excluded since they are primarily associated with being hunters and gathers.

1) All Native Pacific Island Tribes (Excluding Japanese)
2) Aborigines (Australia)
3) New Guinea Tribes
4) North American indigenous Indians
5) Pygmies and Bushmen
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