A critical factor that makes Northern Indian kinship terminology difficult for Americans is:
a. The use of different terms for kin from the mother's side and father's side of the family.
b. The fact that all older males within one's family are called father.
c. The fact that women are only rarely allowed to use a kin name when addressing members of her own family.
d. The fact that the same individual may be called by as many as three different kin names on different occasions.
e. The fact that some people that are much younger than you, must be called father or mother.
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