Bushmen Culture
Lance Stimpson
Comparative Paper between Britain and the Bushmen The culture of Britain and the Bushmen are two completely different lifestyles. Britain is a Western society, influenced heavily by technology and vanity, whereas the Bushmen live as a primitive society. These two cultures differ completely because of their different history, interests and values.
1. Culture
The first major difference between Belgians and the Bushmen is their way of living. In Belgium, as like in most other countries in the world, people live in villages, towns and cities. People normally move only a few times during their life. They choose a place to live and settle there for the rest of their life. The Bushmen their traditional way of living on the other hand is nomadic. They travel around all their lives; they go from one place to another, stay there for a while, and move on again.
Their way to survive is also totally different. People in Belgium grow up and learn how to fit in a complex society and learn how to achieve the goals that society has set out for everyone. That is the modern struggle to survive; fit in and be satisfactory. Survival for the Bushmen has a totally different, more primitive meaning. A lot of things in their culture can be explained with finding a way which increases their chances for survival the most. The Bushmen are still in direct contact with nature and they directly rely on it. The more they know about nature, about plants, about tracking down animals, the higher their chances to survive are.
Survival is the biggest challenge one is faced with and because survival means something different to both cultures, their values and interests will differ too. The Bushmen value sharing, modesty and cooperation most while in Belgium people focus more on their own development. One could say that Western societies challenge everyone individually to gain as much as possible out of life which is totally different from a primitive society where the group
Comparative Paper between Britain and the Bushmen The culture of Britain and the Bushmen are two completely different lifestyles. Britain is a Western society, influenced heavily by technology and vanity, whereas the Bushmen live as a primitive society. These two cultures differ completely because of their different history, interests and values.
1. Culture
The first major difference between Belgians and the Bushmen is their way of living. In Belgium, as like in most other countries in the world, people live in villages, towns and cities. People normally move only a few times during their life. They choose a place to live and settle there for the rest of their life. The Bushmen their traditional way of living on the other hand is nomadic. They travel around all their lives; they go from one place to another, stay there for a while, and move on again.
Their way to survive is also totally different. People in Belgium grow up and learn how to fit in a complex society and learn how to achieve the goals that society has set out for everyone. That is the modern struggle to survive; fit in and be satisfactory. Survival for the Bushmen has a totally different, more primitive meaning. A lot of things in their culture can be explained with finding a way which increases their chances for survival the most. The Bushmen are still in direct contact with nature and they directly rely on it. The more they know about nature, about plants, about tracking down animals, the higher their chances to survive are.
Survival is the biggest challenge one is faced with and because survival means something different to both cultures, their values and interests will differ too. The Bushmen value sharing, modesty and cooperation most while in Belgium people focus more on their own development. One could say that Western societies challenge everyone individually to gain as much as possible out of life which is totally different from a primitive society where the group