Margie was learning about the Maasai people in Africa from her teacher. Her teacher was telling the class about the circumcision rituals that boys undergo at about the age of 10 when they are ready to become warriors. At this time, the boys paint their faces white and dress in black. Margie commented that this sounded like a very odd ritual and that she could not understand why anyone would want to be a part of this tribe. What was Margie exhibiting?

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Phoebe Townsend

Social Studies

23 November, 19:33

Margie was learning about the Maasai people in Africa from her teacher. Her teacher was telling the class about the circumcision rituals that boys undergo at about the age of 10 when they are ready to become warriors. At this time, the boys paint their faces white and dress in black. Margie commented that this sounded like a very odd ritual and that she could not understand why anyone would want to be a part of this tribe. What was Margie exhibiting?

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Ethnocentrism

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The anthropologists describe the term ethnocentrism that means that the opinion of one's ways to live is correct. Sometimes it is called ignorance. The mean of ethnocentrism is that one looking his/her culture as the correct way of living. The person who does not experience other cultures deeply called ethnocentric if they compare and feel that their loves were a more natural way of living. In some cultures, people feel similar ideas, concepts but in some other cultures, there are a lot of differences that are encountered by the people individually. But in some way, people may try to convert another culture into their way of living. Genocide and fearful war is the results of the people unwilling to change their culture and living in another culture or as they live their life.