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This is an interview with a Maasai Tribe member found in a tribe in Kenya. The Maasai are a tribe located in southern Kenya and their way of life is much different from the rest of Kenya.
What is your definition of Culture? Maasai are known for being powerful warriors. We are taught since we are young that we need to protect our people and our cattle. To be in the Maasai tribe is to be part of close community that work together and rely on each other. Our culture is much different than the Kenya’s culture. Our way of life is very traditional and we have our own ways.
How do you define Family? Family is very important. We have many wives and many children and we are very close with all members of the family. It’s important for
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Cattle is very important and the bigger your cattle is the more successful you are. Being a powerful warrior is important as well. The more wives you have mean syou are a successful man as well.
Do you consider your parents to be successful? It’s hard for a son to say if his family is successful. The way for someone to become successful is for them to want to be successful and if they want it they have to work for it. Everyone also defines successful differently so my parents definition of success is different from my definition of success. I personal think my parents were successful because they worked hard and my father was known throughout the village.
How important is education in your family and why? Education isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when we think about teaching our children. Ou rboys are taught to be warriors and can endure anything they come in contact to. They are taught to be cattlers and take care of their families. Girls are taught to do chores around the home and to fear men. The learn to cook and to clean and make the things we need to survive. In recent years education has grown within tribe and more tribes are starting to sen the young kids to
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We don't have the technology and devices like the rest of the world have so for us to be exactly on time is hard. We just the sun as our time and if someone calls you you go to them. You leave to go places when you leave and you get to a place when you get there. You start to learn how long it takes you to get places the more you go there. So it's not the most important agenda for us but it's some what important.
What is the most important meal of the day for you?
We normally eat two meals a day. One in the morning and one out night. So both meals are important but our morning meal is probably our more important meal because it gives us our energy.
Do you eat foods that are indigenous to your culture? Yes. We eat a lot of meat and foods that can grow in the areas we live. We eat organic food. We don’t have fast foods and restaurants like modernized places do. 10.) If you do what are those foods and if you don’t what do you eat
The Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation is a sovereign Native American tribal entity in Washington State. The tribe's reservation is located in southern Washington State and is east of the Cascade Mountains. The reservation is 2,185.94 square miles and has a population of over 30,000. The tribe itself has almost 11,000 enrolled members. The Yakama Tribe consists of multiple groups of Native Americans, including the Klikitat, Palus, Walla Walla, Wanapam, Wishram, and Yakama. These people have lived here for thousands of years and have developed their own very unique way of life and culture. They belong to a larger cultural group known as the Sahaptin people, who live throughout the Columbia River Basin and Plateau in central, eastern, and southern Washington State and in northern Oregon. The Yakama life style was dependant on their surroundings and environment. They heavily relied on wildlife, game, and fish for their sustenance, and where solely hunter-gatherer societies before European and American contact. Due to their close connection and reliance on the environment, the Yakama highly respected nature and were always aware of their impact upon it. They believe that everything has a purpose and an important place in the natural order.
By analyzing the Kawaiisu, a Great Basin Native tribe, I want to explore cultural wonders and observe their society as I compare an aspect of interest with that of another culture in the world, the Chuuk. Comparing different societies of the world will allow me to successfully learn about the Kawaiisu people in a more detailed and open minded manner. Populations all around the world throughout time have had different views and traditions of beliefs. Through this project, I hope to unravel and gain an understanding of different perspectives and ways of life.
Maasai have a relatively complex culture and traditions. In fact, for many years they were
Within the Maasai culture there are several political decision makers. One decision maker is the father in a family unit. The father can decide where his children live within the kraal, which is an enclosed settlement. Another part of the decision making process in the Maasai culture are the elders of the clan. Another group that participates in the Maasai’s process of making decisions are the warriors. Warriors are the young men of a tribe; boys become warriors after they are circumcised. Thus decisions are made by elders, the head of the kraal, and by fathers in a tribe.
Somerset Maugham says that “To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day”. I think that to live well anywhere in the world you should eat at least three times a day. Some of you may have thought of a Mediterranean diet, but when I talked about eating, the first thing I thought about is my region’s diet. And if I have to compare those to other diets, I would say that a typical diet from the south of Benin is equivalent to the Mediterranean Diet because although the nutritional values are lower in the Beninois diet, it is cheaper and easier to find than the Mediterranean diet in the southern region of Benin.
Family, a group consisting of parents and children living together in a household. Although family is a concretely defined term, the idea of family varies from person to person. But, what makes a family? For those who are surrounded by loving blood relatives, for those who have never known the one to grant them life, for those who have left their blood behind for a more loving and nurturing environment, what can commonly define a family? Family is something defined by the individual. Family includes those who you have come to love, whether platonically or romantically, those you have suffered with, those you have come to respect, and most importantly those you have cared for and in turn have cared for you. To one that could mean people who
The Rift Valley in East Africa has been the home of pastoralists for over three thousand years. A number of different tribes migrated to Kenya, grouped by language they include the Cushites derived from Southern Ethiopia, the Nilotes, which include the Maasai, from Southern Sudan, and the Bantu. The Maa speaking people are the group from which the Maasai originated; their expansion southward into the Great Rift Valley began about 400 years ago. The second stage of Maasai expansion involved the emergence of a central Maasai alliance as well as the expansion and differentiation out of the Central Rift Valley. There are numerous Maasai tribes, and we will be primarily discussing the Arusha and Central Maasai.
Education teaches us about a great many things. In kindergarten, you learn the alphabet and counting. ten, in elementary school, you learn penmanship, and the four basic. ways to get seventy through a chain of addition, grammar, and we start. to want to do our own thing instead of everything that our parents wants us to do.
Lunch, however, is typically the heaviest meal of the day and is eaten midday to 4 pm. A Common African lunch menu can be made of potatoes, beans, rice, yams, sorghum, millet, plantain, or cassava.
When the word “family” is discussed, most people think of mothers, fathers, and other siblings. Some people think of grandparents, aunts, uncles, and even cousins and more on the pedigree tree. Without family in people's lives, they would not be the same people that they grew up to be today and in the future. When people hear the word family they think about, the ones who will help them in any way they can whether it’s money, support, advice, or anything to help them succeed in life. Family will forever be the backbone of support.
Everyone seems to define family differently, however, the significance of family is the same. For you, family means everything. You can always count on your parents and siblings for help and love. Family is very valuable and important to you and should never be taken for granted. No one can deny that family is the foundation of our generation. A family is where we all start our life journey and helps us grow to be successful throughout our lives.
“A family can be defined as a set of people related by blood, marriage or in some other agreed upon relationship, or adoption, who share primary responsibility for reproduction and caring for member of society". (Schaefer, 2009, p. 288) This leads to a wide open range of interpretation on the exact definition of how a family is truly made up. Depending on your culture, religion, or geographical location a family may represent and be comprised of many different ideals and social norms. There are many theoretical perspectives that have their own interpretations on the subject of what a family is and how it is perceived. I will attempt to expound on three of these perspectives; Functionalism, Conflict, and Interactionalism.
What is a family? A family is two or more people consider themselves to be blood related, or related by marriage, or adoption. Our families are who we love. We as families look different in so many ways. A family’s caregiving unit might have a couple, a mother, a father, and children. A family could also be a single parent and child, a group of siblings, a small or large group of friends. A family defines itself in many different ways. Families are the foundation of how our society and how it works. It is how we come into the world and nurtured and given the tools that we need to go out into our world. We are both capable and healthy or not our families influence our lives either in a good way or a bad way. While families
Family is arguably the most important social institution in an individual's life. A family is defined as a group of individuals that are related through blood ties, adoption or marriage, that form an economic unit, where the adult members are responsible
In this discussion, I will be explaining how I define family. I will also include my immediate and extended family. I will also describe what family means to me, how mine differs from other families in my neighborhood, and also how they are similar. I will also describe my family’s ethnicity and how it may affect any of my family’s health. To me, a family is a group of people that are brought together by blood, adoption, or marriage.