[Image: A black and white picture of three Raramuri or Tarahumara people, one standing on a wood log, the other standing and facing the camera, a younger one with their back to the camera, holding a white sack.]

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Raramuri or Tarahumara (northwestern Mexico )

The truly remarkable thing about them is an ancient religion which has bred into them a moral code so strict that they are unable to tell a lie.

Psychologists suggest that over the centuries this value system has actually caused physiological changes in their brain that preclude speaking anything but the truth. Nor can they cheat or fail to aid a fellow tribesman.

This has come across my dash a couple of times and I’m still googling and looking trying to find sources for the claim beneath the caption (particularly any sources or statements that come from actual Tarahumara/Raramuri people themselves) and I’m not.

I’m actually rather uncomfortable with this caption beneath it because it seems, well, very fishy and not reliable. 

Can anyone with more knowledge and expertise than I have (which isn’t that much) comment? I just really feel like “big racist lie!” red flags are going up when anyone claims that the brains of people, especially Indigenous people, are really different.

Again, like I said, totally NOT AT ALL an expert, just somewhat alarmed and wondering. So that’s why I’m asking for anyone who might be to chime in. 

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    They are also very quiet.

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