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===Languages=== | ===Languages=== | ||
==Culture and society== | ==Culture and society== | ||
Etalocin was, and still to a large extent is, a [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CrapsaccharineWorld Crapsaccharine World]. | Etalocin was, and still to a large extent is, a [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CrapsaccharineWorld Crapsaccharine World]. Etalocin has a robust tradition of intellectual activity, especially in mathematics and music. However, Etalocian society is highly stratified, which historically caused considerable friction between social classes. | ||
===Historical=== | ===Historical=== | ||
Elite boys are educated in either an "intellectual" curriculum of {rhetoric, poetry, classical language, math, music, science} or a "warrior" curriculum (cf. Korean ''yangban''); by age 15 they enter into an apprenticeship or university study in order to specialize into one or more roles in elite society. If a male failed to pass the full curriculum, he could not specialize and thus was effectively banished from elite society. | Elite boys are educated in either an "intellectual" curriculum of {rhetoric, poetry, classical language, math, music, science} or a "warrior" curriculum (cf. Korean ''yangban''); by age 15 they enter into an apprenticeship or university study in order to specialize into one or more roles in elite society. If a male failed to pass the full curriculum, he could not specialize and thus was effectively banished from elite society. | ||