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over the years i've been collecting a bunch of the neatest wikipedia articles and here they all are

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My Big Fat Wikipedia Hole

Over the last several years I’ve maintained a habit of bookmarking most of the interesting wikipedia articles I read, with my criteria being that I must experience a tingling sense of excitement of...

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I remember this, i believe they were from India, not africa?

4:19 AM · Apr 6, 2022

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Googling suggests the Banchada tribe, and I think you (Aella) might have linked an article about them once, but I can't remember which one.

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In India we had similar practice knowns as "Devadasi" ,where "high caste" people used women of lower caste for traditional dancing but later on forcing them into prostitution, in few states Such as Karnataka.