If you want to discuss cultural anthropology, I'm game, but it has no bearing on the current discussion. Like it or not. For better or worse (and it may very well be "worse"), the current state government is Eurocentric. I for one would elect to keep it that way-warts and all. Besides, most of those communal native traditions of which you speak, while they are successful in small villages and with people who have well-established familial connection across many generations, will not work in the larger society. I think our current welfare state has proven that.