Remote Culture video questions.

1. Kaitlin Thompson
10/27/15
Remote Cultures
1. Overall Impression of both cultures.
I was a little disgusted by the culture in the first film because it was a 35 year old
American man marrying an 11 year old Venezuelan girl and that may be acceptable in
that culture but it isn’t in our culture and the man knew that. And in the second film the
culture wasn’t oh so shocking because that’s what people perceive when they think
about someone living out in a holler.
2. Implications (social, political, legal, religious, economics, others)
For the first movie Men marry extremely younger women. They use hallucinogens to
connect with their gods. The men beat their wives. They cannot count to more than
two. The live the simplest way of life imaginable. For the second film the social aspect
was very minimized, they only really associated with their family. There wasn’t anything
said about politics nor religion. They are probably not economically stable by the way
their homes and surroundings looked.
3. How do they compare to yours?
Neither of these cultures compare to my culture other than being American.
4. Similarities between both cultures.
These cultures are both similar because men have complete dominance, they both
abuse drugs and they are both the simple way of life with different levels of poverty.
5. How do you think those cultures were created?

2. I feel like these cultures were created within the family and passed down and lack of
socialization with society today. They kind of keep to themselves and don’t get involved
out of their segregations.
6. What would it take to integrate those cultures to ours? Should we?
It would take a lot to integrate the first films culture to ours because marrying a 35 year-
old male marrying an 11 year old female is very illegal. I do not think this is something
our culture should ever look at doing.