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This is no more true than comparing them to Klingons. Mandalorians have few real-world analogues and the ones that do exist are imperfect. First and foremost they are a culture built around war and conflict. There is no real-world parallel for that. The closest we get are cultures with prominent warrior sub-cultures, such as ancient Sparta, Japan during the Sengoku Jidai, and the Mexica of the Aztec civilization. Each of these examples had an elevated class(es) of professional warriors that participated in rather regularized, and in some cases ritualized, warfare. None of them were based on conquest, however. The Anglo-Saxon and Norse peoples did not have prominent professional warriors. Their warriors were farmers, which is one of the reasons why Vikinger raids happened on a seasonal basis (never during the winter, and usually between the planting and harvesting seasons when the farming workload had lightened).The one real-life culture I'd compare Mandalorians to would be Anglo-Saxon and the Norse ("Viking") Germanic cultures.