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After continuous years of broad and profound studies, the Nacirema culture is still able to leave anthropologists with their heads in between their hands. Their customs and beliefs are so complex and difficult to keep up with that at some points, these anthropologists feel like packing up their things and abandoning their studies, forever. Nevertheless, anthropologists have once again identified yet another custom of Nacirema that will leave people’s minds boggled. This unique discovery is about the woman who reigns in the land of the free and possesses a power no man has ever felt or seen before, the Goddess Elefthería.
As you step foot in this land they call the big malus pumila, you are destined to meet the mighty Goddess Elefthería. She wasn't born in Nacirema; however, the people and tribes have worshipped and cherished her beauty and significance. Based on anthropologists’ studies, the Goddess arrived at her permanent home on Bedloe's Island, off the harbor of the big malus pumila on June nineteenth of the year eighteen eighty-five. She was given as a gift by the Catalan people, the ones our ladies say to have the voices of "angels." Over the years, Miss Elefthería has not only been a goddess,
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She has held a patriotic place in each and every individual of Nacirema's heart from the very moment she arrived here. She has welcomed all the immigrants who have stepped foot in her home, declaring their journey to the land of the unconfined, has finally come to a close and their struggles are finally to be answered. Her flaming sása, sinuous robes, pointed crown, and tablet that is forever glued to her side, has long since been an inspiring influence for Nacirema's Pride. With her dominant power and grace, Goddess Elefthería has blessed her people with a special and symbolic figure who will live to flourish the wealth and freedom of a glorious

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