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Actually, this family model originated in the Northern stripe of Spain (the districts that were early reconqueered, where the feudal organization became quickly rooted)), but most of Castilla and the rest of Spain —for various reasons— ended up with a nuclear family system not unlike to France, Britain, Denmark, Poland etc.
THIS is the point. It was absolutely specific to the Basque provinces (but I read somewhere that traces of this model are still found among the Northern Spanish coast, in Asturias).
BTW have you heard of the "Hipótesis del matriarcalismo vasco"?
At any rate it never existed in über-machista Catalonia: there, not having male heirs was and is still seen as the worst possible misfortune.
The mayorazgo is also the popular custom in half of France, most of Germany and Austria, Scotland, Northern Spain, and Japan, and under mixed forms in Belgium, North-Eastern Italy, Slovenia, Czechia, Ireland, and parts of Sweden.
On the other hand Northern France, England, Holland, Denmark, and most of Spain, are strictly nuclear (as soon as sons and daughters get married and leave the home, their parents have no more authority on them).
Strangely, in the peripheral areas of Northern France (Lorraine, Flanders, Brittany), there is a weird family system we can call "minorazgo" (ultimogéniture): the youngest son inherits all of the farm (of the house, the shop), but in exchange he has to look after his parents and grand-parents.
Oh no. In the beginning, the Frankish kings had the idiotic habit of dividing their kingdoms between their sons. Their intent was to make everyone happy, but that invariably ended up in civil wars. So, at some point, they introduced tha Salic Law, which decided that "primogeniture mâle" would prevail. And at the same time they ruled that a queen would only be the King's spouse, NEVER the chief of State!
EDIT: the alleged Basque matriarchy allows to understand why the Basque provinces have been exporting countless soldiers, monks, Jesuit priests and missionaries to the rest of the world.
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Yes I heard a lot about the Matriarcado, and has been and if it is an entirely false phenomenon, at least it has been greatly exaggerated, and they were better reasons many times explained to understand why many Basques went to America.
The Salic law it did not prevent a woman from inheriting the throne, it only favored the male on equal terms.
In the Basque Country, there were the same numer of public figures who were women, with real power, as in any other part of Europe, and it is easy to see what their influence was, when we see that in the medieval "provincial council lists", (las juntas generales, las juntas forales), there was not a single woman for centuries..
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You better don't.
Geert Hofstede's findings are pretty much crap.
The man was a master in making money with pseudoscience.
It's not that simple.
Advanced societies tend to be more gender-egalitarian, and Germanic cultures are among the most advanced. Thus there can arguably be a link.
But: Switzerland, the most successful and advanced country in Europe, was the last to generalize women's suffrage. The Canton Appenzell-Innerrhoden / Appenzell-Rhodes Intérieures didn't introduce it prior to 1990.
(Here we can make the question: is Switzerland the only succesfully working democracy in Europe because they escaped women's suffrage much longer than other countries?)
It explicitely did!
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New Zealand, I guess
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Yep, I just checked the matter, it sounds like a fishy story, as often happens in cultural studies.
Obviously, demographic pressure, Basque fishermen's transatlantic connections and the availability of sea transport to the Rio de la Plate were predominant factors.
However, the overabundance of Basque soldiers and Catholic missionaries must be significant in some way. As if carreers in the Army or the Church allowed to reach levels of authorities women couldn't access and thus offered young men the opportunity not to obey anymore their elder sisters. I see a pattern.
Similar phenomenons have been documented in Gascony, a French province that was for a long time strongly Basque-influenced.
Urban aristocracies aren't representative of what happens at the basic level of societies, among simple commoners and peasants, and strongly contribute to shape collective mindsets.
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I think Catalonia, many people don't know but catalans are very leftist in general.
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-I'm just telling you that both in practice and in written laws in the Basque country there was no real matriarchy, and that the term "etxekoandre" (lady of the house), nowadays is used to designate a mother who does not work outside of domestic chores, equivalent to the Spanish "ama de casa"(housewife).
In the strange case (as in any place in Spain or Europe) that a woman had a government position or was considered the head of any institution, at the time she married that power passed to her friend on many occasions, and if not, in the next generation the eldest son was elected again for that position. That is the definitive test to see that there was no matriarchy, that a woman did not inherit from a woman, if she had an older brother. And so it worked even in royal houses in countries under the Salic law, they are many samples of Queens in any European Royal house, even female regents.
In the case of the Basque "mayorazgos", I can assure you that it was so, for a close case that I know.
-The emigration of Basques, which was especially notable in the early days of American colonization, especially among notable people, has nothing to do with any effect of the matriarchy and is explained by what I have told you.
The consideration of "old Christian/Cristiano Viejo" / "old Castilian/Castellano Viejo" the phenomenon of "limpieza de sangre","universal hidalguía" (see "Vizcainía" in the case of Basques), led to an overrepresentation of Basques in public positions (the same in high positions of the church or the army, or the civil service), so the north of Spain (not just the Basque country) was overrepresented in the early days of American colonization.
Another phenomenom was the "Segundones", those who did not inherit sufficient property,because the eldest son inherited it mostly, since they could not dedicate themselves to jobs considered common people, to earn a living had to choose between serving the king (army or civil service) or being part of the church, those were who mostly went to America.
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What surveys do you mean? All I could find on this subject state the opposite - on average husbands were older, but by a slight margin like a couple of years.
Linking behaviour of modern police women of RF to the traditional peasant culture is just too risqué. I guess they're not worse than their male colleagues but the whole bunch just serves a rotten (pro nwo) regime that doesn't tolerate any better.
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