We had to watch two videos about two different cultures and compare how there are the same/different with ours

1. Hannah Herbert
M/W/F
10/26/15
Remote Cultures
1. The first culture we observed was very culture shocked; I didn’t think there were still cultures like
that still in existence. It took my by surprise. The second one I wasn’t that surprised at all;
whenever someone does a film about West Virginia they find the most ridiculous people to put on
camera. I felt bad for the family; but that’s how they act and were raised to be. It wasn’t as
cultural shocking as the first video; seeing that I’ve lived in the state my entire life, I’m use to
running into people like them.
2. The implications I got from the first culture is that they pretty much don’t care for anything,
except the basic needs to survive. They walk around without clothes, they have certain roles for
everyone, they live in hand made shelters in the middle of the jungle, and they don’t have any
contact with the “outside” world. The second video, the implications I gathered was that this
family lives in basically a holler in West Virginia and they are considered the town’s crazy
family. The family lives in trailer homes and own many things to fill the house with; they have
very thick country accents and they do nothing but arguer with each other.
3. The first one is very different compare to mine. They all walk around in clothes and they
live/move around in the jungle. They also deal with death in a different way; they burn the body
and then crush the bones to drink in their water. We just burry the body and give them a
ceremony. We are similar in gender roles; the males are the fathers/hunters and the females are
the mothers/gatherers. The only thing that is similar to my culture is that we both live in West
Virginia and that some of my family live in areas/environment like the family in the video.
4. The similarities in both cultures are that they both struggle to make it in the world. In the first one
they have to hunt every day to find food for their tribe. The second video they have to deal with
making it through the day without killing each other.
5. The first one was created a very long time ago when people still lived in tribes and spent all their
lives in the jungle and the second one was how the family was brought up. They grew up around
these cultures and then pretty much taught their children to live like that and so on down the road.
6. It would take severalteams to get these cultures to be around ours; it will take a lot of patience to
work with them and teach them how our culture works. We can/shouldn’t because it can help
them out with social things and we shouldn’t because it will be very difficult for them to transfer
from their culture to ours.