How The Igbo Society And Culture Change In Things Fall Apart

In the novel Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe the colonizers is changing or threatening to change many of the aspects of the Igbo society and culture. Which includes religion, family structure, gender roles and relations, and trade etc. People and their culture change whether good or bad. Culture change will always take place in the world.
A man of Stephen Ritz started a project to go in to peoples culture and change it for the better. Green Bronx Machine is his project and it builds fit and strong communities through inspired education, local food systems etc. Improving school performance leads to healthy students and healthy schools to transform communities that become better for everyone. He believes that healthy students help drive healthy schools, and that healthy schools can change around the communities around. They increased “45%

The colonizers wanted it their way. This also happened when Christopher Columbus and men and women came to America at took over the Natives. The natives did not want to change their culture and the way they lived. There were doing fine without Columbus but he forced his believes on to them. This is also what happened in the book the Igbo were doing fine without the colonizers. The colonizers pushed there believes on to them. The native Americans culture was transformed in a bad way due to the transformation being harmful to the natives and their land.
Mills touches on society in his article The Sociological Imagination. He explains that “When a society is industrialized, a peasant becomes a worker; a feudal lord is liquidated or becomes a businessman. When classes rise or fall, a person is employed or unemployed; when the rate of investment goes up or down, a person takes new heart or goes broke”. (Mills 1959) he is confirming that people’s cultures change due to what people do to it. People let change be a part of them and take advantage of what change can