Speaking and Symbolic Language

Part 1

             

Yes, it was very difficult because the urge to talk was on my mind the whole time. Just hearing there story about what they did that night, I just wanted to show them how interested I was, and their reaction to me not responding made me feel like I wasn’t interested. By them looking t me like I need help, the best way I could show them I was listening, I had to look at them directly in there eyes and smile, which probably sent them a message that I was weird. It was funny when I was looking at them and smiling, they would smile back with a look on there face saying look at this guy how weird is he, I could tell, their facial expression was funny. The one with most advantage would be the one who could speak, only because with speaking your able to get more information about anything out, then when all you have to communicate is symbolic language. The culture that can speak can act in many different ways, they could understand and get the drift of what they are talking about, or the worst can take place and not understand, or take it the wrong way. This depends on how well they get what they are talking about. Well first off say you were working a customer service job and someone would come in that deaf, at first they are trying to talk to you and you have no idea what to do, and your first instinct would be looking at them and lip talking to where no words are coming out of your mouth. Then you get deaf people who have been there and done that, so they are prepared and have paper and a pen, that way they just write down what they need, they know what to expect in these situations.

Part 2

           

This was indeed difficult only because my friend or “conversation partner,” was like, “why are you talking like a robot?” I said, “Nothing I am just blah.” Not being able to use a tone in my voice people kept thinking something was wrong. That saying, “what’s wrong,” was so annoying, but I had to hold in the reason why, with no tone. My conversation partner wasn’t mad, but by his symbolic language, I got the feeling he felt awkward, and a little uncomfortable. We finished the 15 minutes, but he finished his story. When I explained the assignment, he said I was weird and laughed. Having tones and symbolic Language can tell a lot about someone, from their emotions to their personality. For example: when my conversation partner called me weird, and laughed, I didn’t take that offensive because he was smiling and laughing while he said it. I f he did smile or laugh I might have taken it the wrong way. I believe there are people who have trouble reading body language, when it comes to someone who aren’t use to it. Say a deaf person would look at someone who speaks and not understand their body language, then which a person who speaks looking at someone who is deaf and not understanding there body language. If there was a day, say you were cleaning your house and was really busy on a tight schedule, and someone came up to you and asked you a question, then you responded, not meaning it in a mean way but that’s how it sounded those are moment we wish wouldn’t happen but it does.

Part 3

           

Yes, but it would have not been as fun as it was, just experimenting different languages made this assignment fun. Written language would have made it to easy. What would have been the point if we could use written language, only because written language can tell a lot. One really neat advantage is when cultures would write there stories of there life and adventures but not with words, but pictures, they use this methods because when the children were growing up, they would sit with them telling the stories using the pictures. I do believe drawing pictures on rocks is another method of a written language. Written language has done a lot through the years, forms drawings in caves, telling us they’re hunting and adventures, also Aztecs and Mayans, with there creative calendars. We have learned the way of other people’s lives from their schools, to food, celebrations, religions, and sacrifices, all because it was written down. The poor to the rich was even documented. Just learning even the different languages from using written language, we as people has grown around the form of written language. Language is amazing from the past, present, and the future. Who knows, so many years from now people will look at our written, spoken, and symbolic language and enjoy it, like we have through all these years.

The Zulu and The Andean Indian Tribes

The Zulu tribe lived in multiple places all over South Africa. Some in the Zulu tribe lived in wide-open lands on slopes by mountains. After the summer which doesn’t seem like a climate problem, that’s when heavy rain falls and a little bit of other weather such as wind, thunderstorms, and maybe some snow or even no snow.
The Andean Indian tribe lives in Central America where the climate attends to change, depending on what area you’re in. In the lowlands in the forest is known for their heat, which could cause dry humanity, and when it rain it could cause a moist humanity. There typical weather for the year would be heat, rainy, wind, and just being cold in the winter.

The Zulu tribe physical adaption would have to be there clothes, because in the winter if there is no warm, people could freeze to death, so by doing so they make their clothes out of cow and goat skin. Not only that when women get married they need to wear more clothes on the top which is made out of the same animals, if not married they just where beads.

The Andean Indians had a great physical adaption, which are there tools. If they didn’t have there tool hunting for food would be much harder and starvation would increase.  So by having these creative tools they are able to hunt animal, even predators that are bigger them. Well crops are good just meat can be better quality to eat.

The Zulu tribe would have culture environmental stress, if they have no religion. This would be a problem because a lot of tribes like the Zulu, they all have a god that gives them strength and faith on a daily basis. If there wasn’t any religion, people from the tribe would call themselves god, and people would have to agree and have to do what they say, just things could get ugly because not everyone would agree with that. Since there is a god, they all believe in that one god and even make sacrifices, which are animals, for their god. Religion is a huge part of any tribe.

The Andean Indians had a big thing for their tribe for there cultural adaption, and that was working as a group. Everything in their village was done with a group; everything hunted and built was as a group, which is extremely important in a tribe. If they didn’t want to work as a group, just imagine the things that wouldn’t get finished or even the things that would fall apart. So by working as a group their tribe and village have stayed strong through so many years.

The Zulu tribe I would describe them a just Africans, which is nice and simple but with many meanings. Just how they are spiritual, very hardworking, everyone has a job to fulfill in order to keep everything in tacked and keep the surviving at a great rate, they are a survival tribe.

The Andean Indians, I would call them Indians, I know why just Indians, even there are different types of Indians. Well when I say, “Indians,” the description is: hunters, teamwork, and creativity. This tribe was an amazing tribe for the things they create to stay alive but enjoy every day, like it was there last.

The Zulu tribe also known to me as the Africans, which is in so many word, hardworking, they will do whatever it took to make there village the best not in a winning way but in a, “I will survive,” way. This tribe has done whatever it took to, feed, builds, and worshiped others, like no other.

The Andeans Indians is well known as, “Indians,” for their hunting, for food and survival and not forget their protection for their women and children. They will do whatever it takes to make there village the great, for just there villagers, I’m not sure if they would feel to comfortable with different tribes coming in there territory. 

If a anthropologist were to come to one of these tribe I would strongly recommend, the Andeans because, how they work so hard together and the fast paste hunting, it would keep an anthropologist going for questions.

http://www.gateway-afica.com/tribe/culu_Tribe.html

http://www.everyculture.com/wc/Rwanda-to-Syria/Zulu.html#b

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/102247/Central-American-and-northern-Andean-Indian/57759/Traditional-culture-patterns

The Andeans Indian as a group

The Andean Indians tools for hunting

The Zulu tribe in clothes hands made

A Zulu villager not married, because for her beads 

The Andean Indians hunting

The Zulu tribe celebrating

Nacirema (Part A) & (Part B)

Part A:
1. Powerful Individuals: This is same in every culture and not only that, its the same back in time and even now. There is always going to be people that are rich and the people that are poor. The society has several shines in their house showing that those people are the rich, and then the poor imitates the rich by making pottery plaques to there walls like shines. Individuals can really take what power they have and show it as much as they can.

2. Medicine Men: Well Medicine men isn't a word you hear everyday, and if so its not very popular because it has to do with a type of cure or medicine, but see there medicine is ritual and magical like a witch doctors helper. Medicine men are the practitioners, not just practitioners but the most powerful ones. They don't give the clients what they need, but they are the ones that choose the ingredients.

3. Paraphernalia: This caught my eye when reading, because no matter where you are or whatever country your in, there will always be some paraphernalia . In this case it doesn't have to do with drugs like here in American or just having any paraphernalia in general. The medicine men or practitioners, have impressive set, consisting of variety of auger, awl, probes, and prods. These items are used for exorcism of the evils.

4. Latipso: This was a very unique word that came across this story. This is one ceremony that I think would get every ones attention and this is why. A ceremony that's harsh, that it is phenomenal that a fair proportion of really sick natives. See once you join you, don't ever come back out. Children would try and avoid the situation of going in the temple where the ceremony was preformed, because even children would never come back out, these people know if they are going, they are going to die.

5. Listener: The first thing that came to mind was wow, what a good listener, oh but I was all wrong. A witch doctor, which kept me reading because this story keeps getting deeper into the witch doctor, magical rituals, etc. They are the only witch doctor that can exorcise the devil. They need one because Nacirema believed that parents would bewitch there own children. Well this wouldn't happen if they didn't do secret body rituals.


Part B:

Powerful Individuals are everywhere in America theirs also Rich and the Poor. Here in the America will have the rich wearing jewelry, buying luxury cars, wearing expensive brand names… Etc. For the lower class you will have people to imitate jewelry, name brands, shoes. That’s in every culture; I feel the same but in a different way.

The feeling when I read about the medicine men made me think different about what they do, because he makes the medicine to cure the sick that are needed, but doesn’t provide the medicine for their clients. In others terms he doesn’t give the medicine in person.

Paraphernalia makes me a little disturb, because all the devices they are use and what is it for. All I know that the device are used for making medicine, but how do they use these devices? This is a question that should be answer.

This Latipso temple sets off the feeling of sadness, because not only do adults die in this temple from sick evil possessions, but also children, because of their parents.

The Listener makes me feel nervous to where I’m on my toes, only because he is or she is the witch doctor, who is the only one that can exorcise the devil. This is a nervous but intense feeling 

The powerful individuals is one that might be ethnocentrism, to some people, but what I’m trying to get my point cross is that no matter what country or tribe, there will always be rich and a poor, is some type of way. This is only word exhibit that I choose. In any of my words there is one word that could be judgmental because I’m am comparing our rich and the poor in America to the tribes Nacerima. There are 4 of my words that are free from bias. Powerful individual is bias because I compared in contrasted, because I’m agreeing with how they live.

Powerful Individual is the word I keep and this is the reason why: Powerful Individual is an appropriate word, because we could be using the rich and the poor, which will cause bad conflict. Powerful Individual is the nicer way to explain the rich and the poor, there’s nothing bad about saying Powerful Individual

 From my judgment some cultural will take it offensive, because they are not use the way we talk or put our words. Yes, because there are different ways to avoid using personal culture, or the word we say and that’s trying different speaking methods.