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   * People in Auhelawa learn to sort people into the (totemic) categories of birds, Magisubu (wedge-tailed eagle), Ao'ao (crow), Gegela (parrot), etc.   * People in Auhelawa learn to sort people into the (totemic) categories of birds, Magisubu (wedge-tailed eagle), Ao'ao (crow), Gegela (parrot), etc.
 * Third, when people acquire their society's distinct way of seeing the world, that this their **culture**, it **becomes a second nature**. They don't have to think consciously about how they classify things, because everyone in their community has the same shared knowledge. Acquired knowledge also sets a standard for what counts as normal for the people who acquire it.  * Third, when people acquire their society's distinct way of seeing the world, that this their **culture**, it **becomes a second nature**. They don't have to think consciously about how they classify things, because everyone in their community has the same shared knowledge. Acquired knowledge also sets a standard for what counts as normal for the people who acquire it. 
-* Fourth, and finally, people are different from each other but their acquired differences are always **relative**. What makes you different from an Auhelawa person also makes an Auhelawa person different from you. Anthropology wants to put people's acquired characteristics in a context in which their ways of seeing and thinking are normal, and the observer's way of seeing and thinking stands out as abnormal. +* Fourth, and finally, people are different from each other but their acquired differences are always **relative**. What makes you different from an Auhelawa person also makes an Auhelawa person different from you. Anthropology wants to put people's acquired characteristics in a context in which their ways of seeing and thinking are normal, and the observer's way of seeing and thinking stands out as abnormal. 
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