Similarities And Differences To The Nacirema Culture

When professor Linton brought forth the attention of anthropologists to the Nacirema culture there was a lot of things about their traditions that were different than that of our own, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t also some similarities as well. As crude and vastly spiritual these people are it is rather impressive that they managed to survive for as long as they did living their rather extreme lifestyle. The people back then also had different social classes like we do now, they also had what we call surgeons to fix their imperfections, and they also have the same kind of cleanliness as we do when it comes down to our bodies. Some differences would be in their rituals we don’t go to those extremes to make sure we are okay spiritually. We also don’t believe that if we don’t take care of our teeth no one will love us. They go to such great lengths to preserve their bodies and now a days we don’t fully appreciate or take time to take care of ourselves. It seems as if we will never get rid of inequality of the social classes the Nacirema also had the rich and the poor and the poorer families would, “Imitate the rich by applying pottery plaques to their shrine

They had all these ceremonies that were always referred to as magic to help the people be spiritually in sync. They would “prescribe” them a couple of potions, but in order for them to actually give it to you, you would have to provide them with a gift as payment they wouldn’t treat you otherwise no matter how ill you felt. The same thing goes for our health care system in America if you can’t pay the hospital bill they will send you on your way payment always comes first. Their policy was, “No matter how ill the supplicant or how grave the emergency, the guardians of many temples will not admit a client if he cannot give a rich gift to the custodian.” They wouldn’t just help you out of the goodness of their