Igbo Culture Essay
Igbo Society Expectation on Men and Women
Igbo culture is a culture that is hard for the men and women of the American culture to understand. It is one those cultures were people know what the culture is but they still think it is from the mid 1900’s and before. One can see the how extremely different women and men are treated. In the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe it is very clear about how men and women are treated very differently in their roles in society. This book also gives people a look into how children are treated within this culture. There is a huge difference even at a young age between how society see women and men.
From the beginning of time men have always been looked at as the bread winners of the family. They are supposed to be these big …show more content…
Learning is happening whether the parents know it or not. In the Igbo culture both boys and girls are the inheritors of the futures and are raised so they can continue the ways they were taught to passed down the values and morals of the older generation to the next. But when a person looks at them individually they will see how young they begin to have unequal treatment. Young boys are in charge of washing their father’s clothes and helping him tend to the fields along with the animals they have. They need to go out and get the knives sharpened and everything ready to start farming. They don’t like being in the kitchen with the women. In the book we get an insight on Nwoye. How he always liked the stories of his mother’s much more than anyone else’s. “But he knew that they were for foolish women and children, and he knew that his father wanted him to be a man.” (Achebe 38) Young girls on the other hand are focused on getting married, having kids, keeping her husband and children in a clean living space with food on their plates. Not much of a fair trade, the boys get all the glory when the women do just as much as the men for their
Igbo culture is a culture that is hard for the men and women of the American culture to understand. It is one those cultures were people know what the culture is but they still think it is from the mid 1900’s and before. One can see the how extremely different women and men are treated. In the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe it is very clear about how men and women are treated very differently in their roles in society. This book also gives people a look into how children are treated within this culture. There is a huge difference even at a young age between how society see women and men.
From the beginning of time men have always been looked at as the bread winners of the family. They are supposed to be these big …show more content…
Learning is happening whether the parents know it or not. In the Igbo culture both boys and girls are the inheritors of the futures and are raised so they can continue the ways they were taught to passed down the values and morals of the older generation to the next. But when a person looks at them individually they will see how young they begin to have unequal treatment. Young boys are in charge of washing their father’s clothes and helping him tend to the fields along with the animals they have. They need to go out and get the knives sharpened and everything ready to start farming. They don’t like being in the kitchen with the women. In the book we get an insight on Nwoye. How he always liked the stories of his mother’s much more than anyone else’s. “But he knew that they were for foolish women and children, and he knew that his father wanted him to be a man.” (Achebe 38) Young girls on the other hand are focused on getting married, having kids, keeping her husband and children in a clean living space with food on their plates. Not much of a fair trade, the boys get all the glory when the women do just as much as the men for their