Cultural Faces

Cultural Faces

Cultural Faces
World is made up of numerous types of people with a wide variety of backgrounds. People have different backgrounds due to their different culture and because of their different ways of living. Materialistic things and modernized technology have caused many people to change their way of living. Most of the time, people tend to live in such a way that is suitable to their environment. Since people live in different parts of the world, they like to privatize the place they reside in by giving it an identity. I looked at two different types of people living in almost the same place but still had vast differences among them. At the time of nineteen century, the two major types of people that were found in the United States were called: the Cheyenne/Sioux (the human beings or the people) and secondly, the Whites or the Americans.
These two types of people had many major differences among them. One of the biggest and one of the most important differences among them was their way of living. First, I am going to talk about the Native Americans or the Indians who lived in the Great Plains. Even though these Native Americans were recognized as just one group of people, they had many different subgroups among them. Nevertheless, their way of living was actually closely related to each other. Still, they gave themselves different names, so each of the group could stand out and be recognized among others. Indians had their own way of living and followed their own customs and traditions.
During my two weeks, I observed many things that they did, and was able to understand why they did what they did. Starting with their subsistence, I think they efficiently used what was around them, and tried to make the most out of fit. Before the sun rose, the Indians began to prepare for the day. Building the fire was the first task to be completed. The labor was divided according to gender. For instance, the women had particular jobs that they had to do before the sun...

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