Nacirema Culture Analysis

Ethnocentrism & Ritualistic Behavior in the Nacirema Culture
Ethnocentrism is defined as a belief that one’s own culture is superior. This article uses metaphors’ to describe our own well to do American society. As we read the article we automatically judge and think that the Nacirema’s are barbaric people who seem very uneducated and masochistic, when in fact we follow the same practices.
As we read this article, we see the Nacirema as a masochistic culture which gave their possessions for the chance to be treated with rituals they felt purified the body, mind and soul. This was achieved through the treatment and advice of the medicine men, holy mouth men or the listener. When they followed through with the rituals, it was thought