@Bernard @Breaking911

Yeah. I agree with that for the most part. Many of the inhabitants of the USA were at war with each other, or otherwise had some kind of violent power imbalance, just a few generations ago, and in some cases still present day. That doesn't really make for a very unified society. On the other hand, even the nations of the modern day Haudenosaunee were involved in centuries of war between each other prior to the confederacy being formed. There was an honour code that required that if someone killed a member of another nation, then the people of that nation were required to kill or kidnap someone in retaliation. In plenty of cases it also involved cannibalism. But eventually people got sick and tired of that cycle of violence, and at the instigation of one of their chiefs (Hiawatha) and a foreign spiritual leader (Deganawida, possibly from among the Huron-Wendat), they managed to form a social movement to bring peace to their nations. It's a really interesting legend. The long and short of it though is 1,000 years of peace between them, and consequently their influence upon the formation of the USA from the formerly warring American colonies. What the American system left out however was gender and racial equality, which as anyone can see readily for themselves, continues to be a fundamental source of conflict to this day.