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Hillbillies are their own country??Appalachian that I wasn't related to in a way. Our familial structure is quite different than yours and that's something Americans don't understand.
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Hillbillies are their own country??Appalachian that I wasn't related to in a way. Our familial structure is quite different than yours and that's something Americans don't understand.
Our familial structure is quite different than yours and that's something Americans don't understand.
I'm convinced that we're all better off not understanding your familial structure.
Our familial structure is quite different than yours and that's something Americans don't understand.
I'm convinced that we're all better off not understanding your familial structure.
"Clan" and what you're thinking of as "family" are two different things. "Clan" traces kith and kin (usually without distinguishing between the two) to determine ties of loyalty, it doesn't mean marrying your first or second cousin. Think of it as a widely extended family network. An eighth cousin twelve times removed, by marriage, would still be clan and that person still a "cousin" and still "family" for clan purposes.
If you go back far enough many of the first Applachian settlers had a Scots or Scots-Irish background and imported a version of their clan system. Later settlers embraced it as the existing social structure, especially since many of them came from cultures that had similar if informal social structures. It's not complicated, really.