Saturday, 15 October 2011

What I learnt from the culture I presented

My group presented the Aborigines tribe in Australia. yes I would say it was strange to me for many reasons:
1. They were mostly naked except in cold parts of the region they wore animal skin.
2. They were semi-nomadic, moving from place to place according to the season
3. They don't have any written record of their language, it was only spoken
4. The family and marriage rites were too confusing because it involved too many co-cultures that included people who also belonged to other co-cultures.

Now presently I would not say it was so strange that it affected me or my way of communication is a dramatic way. All I have to do is watch national Geographic and I would find many other cultures that have similar differences. What I did learn was that despite the numerous differences they possessed in comparison to the western world, their culture worked effectively enough for them and that is really what mattered to me most. It worked. For that matter they were existing quite comfortably until some ethnocentric Europeans came and wiped them out. It just goes to show that domination and invasion destroys cultures, it doesn't integrate or expand it.  

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