Views and values of cultures changes when they are introduced into a new religion, society structure and laws. We see the world through our understanding of nature and beliefs. The creation of beliefs are the most powerful force. Natives of the islands of New Guinea had a different view of the world before the western missionary movements arrived. Europeans have introduced new beliefs for the natives so they see the world from a new lense and understand the nature of human existence and culture in a new way. However, are the westerns views changing the values of the natives and demolishing their culture?
Years and years ago, the natives lived in New Guinea island without technology, civilization, money, government or even a system that they …show more content…
Worsley talks about the people of the central highlands of New Guinea and says they are only the latest to be gripped in the recurrent religious frenzy of the “cargo cults.” However variously embellished with details from native myth and Christian belief. These cults are just advancing the same central theme, that the world is about to end in a terrible cataclysm. Thereafter God, the ancestors or some local culture hero will appear and inaugurate a blissful paradise on earth. “A place that death, old age, illness and evil will be unknown.” A promise of immortality in a conversion into a belief system.” As the Christians waiting for the upcoming Christ, the natives similarly had been waiting for the upcoming …show more content…
In the book Inside the Cult, the author says, “Baining represents an extreme in the direction of minimizing the importance of social ties. Whereas most societies describes in the anthropological literature are seen having a family-type units.” (23) Disregarding one’s culture is a crime that one might intentionally or intentionally commit against other societies. In the weekly dances, the healing traditions and the ceremonies that been banned had a family and community ways to unite them together and strengthen their beliefs and
Years and years ago, the natives lived in New Guinea island without technology, civilization, money, government or even a system that they …show more content…
Worsley talks about the people of the central highlands of New Guinea and says they are only the latest to be gripped in the recurrent religious frenzy of the “cargo cults.” However variously embellished with details from native myth and Christian belief. These cults are just advancing the same central theme, that the world is about to end in a terrible cataclysm. Thereafter God, the ancestors or some local culture hero will appear and inaugurate a blissful paradise on earth. “A place that death, old age, illness and evil will be unknown.” A promise of immortality in a conversion into a belief system.” As the Christians waiting for the upcoming Christ, the natives similarly had been waiting for the upcoming …show more content…
In the book Inside the Cult, the author says, “Baining represents an extreme in the direction of minimizing the importance of social ties. Whereas most societies describes in the anthropological literature are seen having a family-type units.” (23) Disregarding one’s culture is a crime that one might intentionally or intentionally commit against other societies. In the weekly dances, the healing traditions and the ceremonies that been banned had a family and community ways to unite them together and strengthen their beliefs and