I really liked the Body Ritual among the Nacirema by Horace Miner. I know we briefly mentioned it in class, but I thought it was so interesting, when you think about it. There are so many things that we do that we think are normal, but there are other people who are looking at those things thinking we are crazy and vice versa. We would never think it was weird to have a bathroom where we wash up and use our “potions”, but other cultures may not use a bathroom, or shampoo and conditioner. It’s just so funny to see how they interpreted a bathroom into a ritual/ ceremonial type of thing. And also how they make fun of us for going to all our different types of doctors, we think that that is just common sense, and they think that it is just silly. I just thought this was interesting because you never know how people perceive things, or if you are looking at things in the right light.
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