Culture

Culture

               Being knowledgable about different cultures around the world is very important as it shows others daily routine and the struggles they face day to day in comparison to ourselves. It makes you think. If you were thrown into the conditions faced by different cultures we would not know what to do, nor would we be able to adapt to the sudden change. A great example of these cultures is shown through the movie "Babies". This movie is about the comparison between four cultures and how they raise their children. This movie compares the United States, Japan, Namibia, and Mongolia. If you throw Orangeville into the comparison and remove Japan it shows just how good Canada, and the United States have it. The children in these third world countries are wandering by themselves coated in dirt and barely clothed in terrible warm conditions, where it is surprising to see a child in the sun without a hat here. The level of childcare, and overall conditions are substantially better here then in these third world countries. When born we are showered with gifts and love from our friends and family, where as in Mongolia, and Namibia these children are forced to play outside with rocks, grass, sticks, or handmade toys. They do not have the resources we have today. There is no store they can drive to whenever they need something, no nursery they can sleep in, no music players singing them lullabies, no toys to play with, no canned baby food, none of the resources that seem to be necessities here. So think about the resources we have before you beg for something you cannot purchase or do not need, because we are very lucky for what we have today.