The Peaceful Warrior Remembers

“Culture Is Defined by the Tribe, Not by External Authority”

Culturally appropriate practice is not about ethnicity, paperwork, or who holds a credential.
It is about tribe — the community you walk with, are accountable to, and are shaped by.

Too often, systems confuse identity on paper with identity in practice.
Communities do not.

Culture is lived.
It is learned through shared hardship, shared care, shared memory, and shared survival — not conferred by institutions, registrations, or titles.

When care is imposed from outside a community, it fractures trust.
When communities define their own standards of care, social sustainability becomes possible.

A workable social moral code begins here:

• Communities define their own culture

• Lived experience carries moral authority

• Care must be culturally congruent, not administratively convenient

This is the first instalment in an ongoing series.

The Peaceful Warrior Remembers.

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