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There are pockets of Mennonites and Amish all over the upper midwest. But I also see a lot here that looks familiar to me from my early childhood. Much of my family had been farmers in the US for generations.


I certainly recall large families and family strong connections being the norm.
 
This view of 2035 seems more likely every day. I'm not sure how it is sustainable though. Since women have chosen to opt out of societal norms perhaps cloning will be the only path forward. Marriage has become too risky with few rewards. Legally and economically there isn't anything in it for men.

More are choosing to "go their own way" every day now. It is worldwide outside of places in sub-Saharan Africa and Muslin counties.

I don't see parallel male and female societies. Who is going to build and repair everything in Amazonia? Contracting companies from the male nations? Why would they? How would they be paid?

 
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Talk to some of them face to face.
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Actually I do. Not Navajo, but mostly Ojibway around here. Up North where my youngest went to school there is a nearby reservation. They run gas startions and stores along the main drag as well as a few motels. I've stayed there nearly a week at times and you get to know that staff including maids and groundskeepers. They are very active with events during both tribal holidays and US holidays. Not much different than among our Dutch and Polish and Irish communities. I worked with one for neatly 6 years and I never caught any glowering resentment from her either. She dropped by my office during breaks quite frequently, and I can't remember any topics we shied away from or anything.

Now, things were quite different during a two week trip I took through the Southwest. Different tribe, and probably far different historical treatments. Many were far poorer. Much more tight-lipped and stand-offish. When I was in Phoenix for a week there were Indian prostitutes on the back roads of downtown. So yeah, things are probable a bit more rocky relations-wise.

So no, you can't lump everyone into one pot any more than you can other groups. A lot of it probably comes down to relations during the post-Revolutionary era.
 
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