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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In America, It seems like everyone for themselves. You go to work, get your paycheck, and watch out for yourself and your immediate family. If you get more money, you buy more things to show your wealth
ReplyDelete. In Africa, everyone is your family. If you don't need something or it's left over, you give it to your neighbours, because they will do the same for you. Everyone seems willing to lend a hand in the work, and everyone shares the profit.
I think that Ilunga's village has a better idea of society. It's a society were everyone survives, and everyone remains equal. Ilunga's people truly live in a christian lifestyle full of giving and good works.
In america its mostly your immediate family that you care about the most and would do anything to make sure they stay alive. In this culture everyine is valued in the community no matter who you are.
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