The short movie “The God Must Be Crazy” tells us the intense conflict between popular culture and indigenous culture and people's thinking about morality. The story was beginning in the most treacherous desert—Kalahari. Kalahari is a beautiful place that far away from hustle and bustle city, and the climate in there are also strange. After the short rainy season, the water was drained by the desert in almost two weeks, and then there was no water to drink. People who live in there named Bushmen, and they are the most contented people in the world. They lead a self-sufficient life, they know where to dig for roots and bugs and tubers to keep them alive even when there is no water. Some of them live in small family groups, but most of them are live in complete isolation. Bushmen don't know anything about
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First, every culture is unique. Culture in Kalahari is quite different from the culture in the city, even as a bottle makes Kalahari's culture change and gradually move toward city culture. Second, culture changes continually. Since that bottle entered the field of Bushmen, culture has been changing. People's emotions, behaviors and even ways of thinking are starting to change. Next, cultural differences have something to do with nature. Bushmen don’t have the sense of ownership just because they don’t have things that can be possessed. In their previous lives, only existing land, trees, and flowers, but there was only one bottle. Finally, culture is dynamic, contested and contingent. Although a bottle made Bushmen became more aggressive than before, actually it is also a symbol of their progress. The fall of a bottle just shows its contingency. In short, this film clearly points the difference between popular culture and indigenous cultures, and also tell the effect of popular culture to indigenous
First, every culture is unique. Culture in Kalahari is quite different from the culture in the city, even as a bottle makes Kalahari's culture change and gradually move toward city culture. Second, culture changes continually. Since that bottle entered the field of Bushmen, culture has been changing. People's emotions, behaviors and even ways of thinking are starting to change. Next, cultural differences have something to do with nature. Bushmen don’t have the sense of ownership just because they don’t have things that can be possessed. In their previous lives, only existing land, trees, and flowers, but there was only one bottle. Finally, culture is dynamic, contested and contingent. Although a bottle made Bushmen became more aggressive than before, actually it is also a symbol of their progress. The fall of a bottle just shows its contingency. In short, this film clearly points the difference between popular culture and indigenous cultures, and also tell the effect of popular culture to indigenous