Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[brainlessone]

let me take an entirely unreasonable approach.

lets say there are these barbarians who do not own land roaming around a part of the world that no one else will go to. they have been forced to live there because of centuries of internecine warfare, beligerence over trifles, despotic honor codes and they live with a culture and mores completely alien to anyone else on earth. They are primitive hunter gatherers. They have no political entities other than bands of tribal warriors numbering a few hundred and do not respect any political boundaries

They have no technology, no money, and no thought other than theft and raiding. there are very few of them, lets say 1 per square mile of place.

An alien goes there and discovers fogzeenium, which the aliens like a lot, but the barbarians know nothing about.

The aliens decide to give 90 percent of the Aliens value of the fogzeenium to the barbarians for unknown reasons.

How long does it take the barbarians to change their cultural values or do they ever change their values?

In real life, they never do. In this hypothetical example, how long do you think it would take, and why would they?