Comparing the Cultures of The Ik, The Pomo Indians, and The Nayar Society of Southern India
The three cultures I have chosen to talk about in this essay are ‘The
Ik’ culture, ‘The Pomo Indians’ and The Nayar Society of Southern
India’ The Ik is a culture from Northern Uganda. The Pomo Indians is a
culture from (find out more info) and lastly, The Nayar Society is a
culture from Southern India. I will also be mentioning some things
from my culture, which is the Yoruba culture. The Yoruba tribe is from
Nigeria (West Nigeria)
When it comes to family, The Ik culture believes that family is not
important at all. As it says in the source “The family does not
feature heavily in the culture….” In this culture, as far as they are
concerned, the family means very little to them. This is not because
of cruelty or selfishness, but because of poverty. In the Ik, there is
a daily struggle to survive from drought, famine and starvation. The
Pomo Indians culture believes that family is basically all you need
they believe that without family you are nothing. They strongly
believe in consulting your family before you go on to do something.
It-it could be that a member of the family would want to go and live
somewhere else, but before his/her makes the decision he/she must go
to the rest of the family and let them know the plans. To the Nayar
Society Of Southern Indians, family wasn’t really a big issue. My
reason for saying this is because of the way their families are
structured. (Before puberty, all Nayar girls are ritually married to a
Nayar man of the same communal or above) their culture is that once a
Nayar girl had reached her puberty stage,...
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...amily in general (excluding cooking and domestic
things)
The sources of the information of the cultures could not be correct,
or completely true-it could even be outdated. I.e.-The Ik culture
information has been extracted from a book written in 1994. The
culture could have changed COMPLETELY now that we're a new century.
Some of the information could be bias opinion. Looking at the Pomo
Indians sources, it seems to be as if somebody is talking from their
experience so maybe the culture wasn’t really how he/she is making it
out to be, it could have been completely different, but this is just
his/her opinion. If you look at the Nayar society information, you
will see that there are parts where the word ‘apparently’ is used.
This shows that the source is NOT completely sure whether this
information is true or not.