The Massai People
Rosa Perez
Professor Neff
SYG2000
07/11/15
The Massai People of Africa The Massai are what would be considered patriarchal, meaning human beings control the company. In the article it talked about how the men gather food and are responsible for the protection, while the women construct the house and care for the tykes, and gather firewood. Almost like how America was in the 1950’s and even the Native Americans in the 1700’s. The societal transformation that shocked me was that the women will go to the main city to trade commodities. They exist largely in the heart of nowhere, so to travel all that way to draw some money selling cattle, beads, fabric, and even cellular phones is an amazing trek. They still cause to give a census from time to time, when they act, they …show more content…
As it is now they are cut off from certain water supplies and other basic needs for natural selection, as well as lodging. I think it is unfair to them, since this is what they see as a means to exist even if it doesn’t match modern thinking. Like those who live near farmers have no alternative but to farm, even though they know that once they have trained the body politic it is no longer great quality for the beasts to pasture. These people remind me of Native Americans. They are habituated to doing things a certain room and feel that this is a safer manner of life. Once the British came and made home on their land, rules were changed, causing the Native Americans out of their homeland. The British have now done the same thing to the Massai people making them “catch up to the times”. The Massai is becoming a subculture in their homeland due to changes in the whole country. The Massai are differing from America because this subculture will eventually just disappear if the government doesn’t give the Massai a fighting chance to live the way they want to. Even if they are attempting to catch up, what can they say to their children
Professor Neff
SYG2000
07/11/15
The Massai People of Africa The Massai are what would be considered patriarchal, meaning human beings control the company. In the article it talked about how the men gather food and are responsible for the protection, while the women construct the house and care for the tykes, and gather firewood. Almost like how America was in the 1950’s and even the Native Americans in the 1700’s. The societal transformation that shocked me was that the women will go to the main city to trade commodities. They exist largely in the heart of nowhere, so to travel all that way to draw some money selling cattle, beads, fabric, and even cellular phones is an amazing trek. They still cause to give a census from time to time, when they act, they …show more content…
As it is now they are cut off from certain water supplies and other basic needs for natural selection, as well as lodging. I think it is unfair to them, since this is what they see as a means to exist even if it doesn’t match modern thinking. Like those who live near farmers have no alternative but to farm, even though they know that once they have trained the body politic it is no longer great quality for the beasts to pasture. These people remind me of Native Americans. They are habituated to doing things a certain room and feel that this is a safer manner of life. Once the British came and made home on their land, rules were changed, causing the Native Americans out of their homeland. The British have now done the same thing to the Massai people making them “catch up to the times”. The Massai is becoming a subculture in their homeland due to changes in the whole country. The Massai are differing from America because this subculture will eventually just disappear if the government doesn’t give the Massai a fighting chance to live the way they want to. Even if they are attempting to catch up, what can they say to their children