What concepts in the Sawi culture intrigued / reviled / saddened / angered / surprised you?
Every single part of the Sawi culture was intriguing. All the different aspects were so atypical than to what we are exposed in our everyday life. The language with the tenses that was numerous to the point where only Don Richardson was the only foreigner to ever learn the language. The one part of all the things in this Sawi culture that most intrigued me was that treachery was ideal. Treachery to other tribes, which lead to cannibalism, was distinctive to the other twenty first century cultures.
Cannibalism is not something that we see in Korea, America, or any other countries in which people conclude as “civilized.” Cannibalism is considered as a sin in my culture, Christianity and Korean. I think it was interesting to visualize something that was not even supposed to be thought about in my culture. It’s weird how human beings eating other human beings were not for just survival instincts but rather to gain popularity and strength in one society. This made me think in our society what people need to gain for popularity and high social status. Money was the answer to this question. The green paper is what rules the minds of people in this what people called “civilized.” Then I thought to myself, is cannibalism a more corrupt sin than this green paper in which the world today rotates around? I thought no. Money can bring as much sin as cannibalism does. Cannibalism brings death or murder, but money can bring more variety of sins; drugs, alcohol, murder, adultery, treachery, and suicides. Cannibalism may be one of the sins but in God’s eyes they’re still the same sin as someone stealing a pencil. So who are we to make the conclusion that the Sawi culture is bad and corrupt? Yes, their culture may be intriguing but definitely not something that should anger or upset someone. We need to look among our self and see through the perspective that which we look at the Sawi’s at.
By the end, cannibalism was the part of the culture that intrigued me the most because it enabled me to look back at our cultures and see flaws in it. We say cannibalism is disgusting and horrific when the green paper that we let control us is as much destructive as cannibalism.
Every single part of the Sawi culture was intriguing. All the different aspects were so atypical than to what we are exposed in our everyday life. The language with the tenses that was numerous to the point where only Don Richardson was the only foreigner to ever learn the language. The one part of all the things in this Sawi culture that most intrigued me was that treachery was ideal. Treachery to other tribes, which lead to cannibalism, was distinctive to the other twenty first century cultures.
Cannibalism is not something that we see in Korea, America, or any other countries in which people conclude as “civilized.” Cannibalism is considered as a sin in my culture, Christianity and Korean. I think it was interesting to visualize something that was not even supposed to be thought about in my culture. It’s weird how human beings eating other human beings were not for just survival instincts but rather to gain popularity and strength in one society. This made me think in our society what people need to gain for popularity and high social status. Money was the answer to this question. The green paper is what rules the minds of people in this what people called “civilized.” Then I thought to myself, is cannibalism a more corrupt sin than this green paper in which the world today rotates around? I thought no. Money can bring as much sin as cannibalism does. Cannibalism brings death or murder, but money can bring more variety of sins; drugs, alcohol, murder, adultery, treachery, and suicides. Cannibalism may be one of the sins but in God’s eyes they’re still the same sin as someone stealing a pencil. So who are we to make the conclusion that the Sawi culture is bad and corrupt? Yes, their culture may be intriguing but definitely not something that should anger or upset someone. We need to look among our self and see through the perspective that which we look at the Sawi’s at.
By the end, cannibalism was the part of the culture that intrigued me the most because it enabled me to look back at our cultures and see flaws in it. We say cannibalism is disgusting and horrific when the green paper that we let control us is as much destructive as cannibalism.
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Haichan, I totally agree with you about us judging the Sawi and seeing them in a negative light when we have our downfalls as well. I thought it was really interesting how you discussed how much evil money can cause people to be. Even though it seems as if both us and the Sawi have many sins and are corrupt, could you be willing to ever live there? Because although the way you discuss our sins as equal and its true, I know i could never go there. :(
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