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A. The Bushmen of Africa speak a unique click language, that involves specific sounds. B. A major belief that the Bushmen have, is that they worship a god named Kaggen. This can be translated to mantis, and a praying mantis is one of the forms “Kaggen” is believed to take. Along with Kaggen, the bushmen have other spiritual importances. The Bushmen have very important rituals for the following events, boys’ first kill, girls’ puberty and marriage. C. Since there is so little property to go around it is not as big of a concern as things like marriage. This makes marriage heavily valued by the Bushmen. D. An interesting behavior that the Bushmen have is that instead of using guns or other technology, the Bushmen trace the steps of their prey until the get a feel for the movement of the prey. Once they have the feel they run after their prey, following footprints and sometimes just guessing where the animal went. After chasing the animal until they are exhausted, sometimes for 8 hours or more, they slowly and careful stalk the prey until they have an easy kill, via spear, or the animal simply collapses. Once the animal has died they do not simply lay down to rest, they go through a small ceremony/ritual which honors the animal’s life that they took. I explain this behavior to you so that you can understand what the people of my culture go through everyday. Hard work put into tasks like this harden our people and makes the humble. Getting along with my people is not a problem at all, due to the hardships we experience everyday.
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A. Even with the sincerness, the Bushmen seem to have a problem with sexual jealousy. Another point that Richard B. Lee brought up was that, “since there is so little property to argue about, two of the main foci for the culture are sex and marriage”, thus creating that jealousy. B. As a culture the Bushmen have so little when it comes to economics. Many die due to starvation and dehydration, this really limits the abilities we have as a culture. We spend so much time trying to stay alive that we don’t have time to progress in our culture in anyway. C. We are also limited to what we can do by the Botswana government. When diamonds were found in our region, we were forced to move out by the government and received none of the profit. Since we as a culture have no money, we can’t afford vital things for to survive like vaccines and medicine. Thus, disease sets into our culture and takes the lives of many. HIV/AIDS and TB (Tuberculosis) are destroying the lives of many in our culture.
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