美国人建设了大而高效的机构，不被亲属和宗族关系所束缚。

Americans build large, efficient organizations that are not bound by the circles of kinship and clan.

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这一点很重要，因为为企业模型维持合适的宗族关系是必要的。

This is important because it is necessary to maintain the appropriate ancestry for the enterprise models.

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平峰村宗族关系纽带日渐松散，但宗族观念在村民日常生活中仍具有一定的影响力。

Though its ties are becoming increasingly loose, the ancestral idea still exerts certain influence on the villagers daily life .

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Wouldn't a later writer have cleaned up this ancestral record if this were in fact something composed at a later period? Also, he notes that the representation of inter-ethnic relationships in the patriarchal stories does not accord with the reality of a later period.

后世的作者难道不会把祖先不光彩的记录抹去吗,如果事实上这故事是后来创作的话？同时，他还提出，宗族故事中所展示的种族间关系,与后世的现实是不相一致的。

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