Today in the class we saw a movie about Yanamano. Some 12,000 Yanamano live in the villages scattered along the border of Venezuela and Brazil of South America. The movie was called "Warriors of Amazons". Since childhood children were studying how to fight. In my opinion, it is not a really good way for children's psychology, but if you live in this kind of society you have to know how to survive. They are keeping this tradition to fight and attack for the 2000 years. Before that they did the same. In my opinion, it's nice to have traditions, but on other hand society suppose to grow, and improve itself. The traditional village of Yanamano has different families, which live together. They help each other, eat, work, and sleep together. Then they start to eat they have own big bowl with a lot of food. It's traditional way to eat special kind of food. The meat supposed to be prepared by a special way: no blood inside, for it they bowl meat for several hours. Since a child is born, he has to know how to hold the pain inside without any complaint. By their rules every injury supposed to be fixed. Every 2-3 times per year all men going to fight. So children have to know how to fight. In my opinion it's not really good way to take child with you who is only 2-3 years.
             For me it was so strange how they communicate with God and High Power. They think drugs are helping to communicate with High Power. They are taking drugs and smoke it, and blowing into the noise. They believe in the spirit world. They believe they can help to prevent diseases. But at the same time, in 8 weeks 4 people died out of the population 90. In the movie we saw an example how one woman got a high fever. The main person in the community was helping her. They smoked and started to scream and touch her. It seems like they were trying to take everything from inside of her and throw away. They believed it was some kind of message to the High P...