After finishing Ilunga's Harvest, comment on Tidwell's assertation: "Like everyone else in Kalambayi, Ilunga needed badly the help fish culture could provide. What he didn't need, however, were lessons on how to stay alive. And that, I eventually grew to understand, was what all the sharing was really about. It was a survival strategy, an unwritten agreement by the group that no one would be allowed to fall off the societal boat no matter how low provisions ran on board....everyone stayed afloat."
Is this different than what you see in America? How? Which way is better?
Can you think of an example?
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The people in Kalambayi are a lot better at sharing than the people in America. When people are starving in Kalambayi they share their food and the villagers get through the rough patches together. America needs to learn from what Kalambayi is doing and needs to start sharing with the poor or needy.
ReplyDeleteI think it is way different in America. In Kalambayi, the people are all way better at sharing things. Tons of people in America die of hunger each day. In Kalambayi, if people are hungry, others will help them get healthier by sharing food and supplies with them. In America, we don't try as hard to save them. The Kalambayi's way is way better than the way of Americans. I think America should learn a lesson from the Kalambayi people.
ReplyDeleteIn America people are greedy and usually only care about themselves. In Kalambayi the people all share to keep each other alive and to help the whole village. If people in Kalambayi have lots of food or supplies, they would share it with the village and everybody. If somebody had lots of food or supplies in America they would usually keep it for themselves and not share. I think Kalambayi could teach America a lesson to share with everybody, no matter who they are.
ReplyDeletei agree with Jason. If you think about how much someone in America spends on food each day. how much one meal for us costs could probably feed 10 or 15 people. People in America need to share more.
ReplyDeleteI think it's different in America. In America we waste a lot of things that we could give to others instead of throwing it all away. In Kalambayi they share what they have because most people don't have much.
ReplyDeleteIn America people don't share their crops like Ilunga did in Kalambayi. Americans can learn not to leave people behind. In Kalambayi if you have a starving neighbor and you have a fish you will share it with them, but in America you might not give a homeless person change.
ReplyDeleteIn America people don't help each other like that. I think the Kalambayi system is a lot better. Americans could learn a lesson from Kalambayi that other people are just as important as themselves.
ReplyDeleteIn America most people don't share their crops like the people in Kalambayi. If anyone in Kalambayi is starving you would share whatever you have with them, even if you don't have much to share. I think the people in Kalabayi could teach the American's a lesson.
ReplyDeletePeople in America usually only care about themselves. They don't worry about other people. If someone in Kalambayi was starving, a lot of people would share and help. In America, it's completely different.
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