Tribal Attributes

Tribal attributes

This one thought I want you to think about that is not really thought of much when you talk about the many tribes of people out there.

Everyone has tribal attributes, like the color of your skin, your eye shape, your hair color, your eye color and even the way you speak and even how you think and even your religion is all your tribal attributes. The next thing is do you marry within your own tribe or do you seek a mate outside of your tribe. That is what should be thought of when you decide on who you want to marry and settle down and have children. What culture will you raise your children in and even what religion will your children be raised in. There are many things that you will have to think about when you start dating. NO matter what tribe you come from everyone should think of what their children look like and even the religion they are to be brought up in. This one of the many things that is fought over is how to raise their children in what religion, what school and even where to live to raise your children in. all of this should be thought over before you start dating and who you want to be and what your children will be when you do find someone. So when you do get old you can look back and say I would have done everything all over again instead of if I could have done it all over again I would have done things different. Now is the time to change things that you can change. So live your life the way you want to do not let everyone else try to tell you want you want and what is right for you. It is time to make your own choices in life for your life is your life.

Our culture within us

At the end of the 20th century, we now understand that human cultural behavior is learned, conditioned into infants beginning at birth, and always subject to modification. No human is born with a built-in culture or language. Our temperaments, dispositions, and personalities, regardless of genetic propensities, are developed within sets of meanings and values that we call "culture." Studies of infant and early childhood learning and behavior attest to the reality of our cultures in forming who we are.

It is a basic tenet of anthropological knowledge that all normal human beings have the capacity to learn any cultural behavior. The American experience with immigrants from hundreds of different language and cultural backgrounds who have acquired some version of American culture traits and behavior is the clearest evidence of this fact. Moreover, people of all physical variations have learned different cultural behaviors and continue to do so as modern transportation moves millions of immigrants (and or tribal members) around the world.

How people have been accepted and treated within the context of a given society or culture has a direct impact on how they perform in that society. The word "racial" within the worldview was invented to assign some groups to perpetual low status, while others were permitted access to privilege, power, and wealth. The tragedy in the United States has been that the policies and practices stemming from this worldview succeeded all too well in constructing unequal populations among Europeans, Native Americans, and all the other tribal members of all the nations.

Given what we know about the capacity of normal humans to achieve and function within any culture, we conclude that present-day inequalities between so-called "racial" groups are not consequences of their biological inheritance but products of historical and contemporary social, economic, educational, and political circumstances within each culture.