Mieko ASSIGNMENT #1 QUESTIONS: (due 11:59pm, Thursday, February 11th)
Provide essay-style answers (e.g., complete sentences) to the following questions. The best answers are accurate, highly descriptive, and well above the indicated "bare minimum" word ranges. Upload your completed assignment to your Laulima DROPBOX. Make sure to read each question carefully!
#1: (150 words minimum) Western medicine tends to have an “ethnocentric” view of itself in comparison to the medical beliefs and practices of other cultures – it sees its own beliefs and practices as superior to the more “primitive” practices and beliefs of other groups, peoples, and societies.
(a) (75 words minimum) Describe the smear campaign against midwives carried out by the …show more content…
*First, the babies of the both cultures, Hmong and !Kung, stay close to their mother until a certain age. Clearly, a !Kung baby would sleep beside a mother at night and be carried on the mother’s hip, regardless what the mother is doing. Similar to that, a Hmong baby would sleep in a mother’s arms all night and being on her back during daytime. In “Spirit Catches You,” it says that a study has found “Hmong mothers held and touched their babies far more frequently than Caucasian mothers” (Fadiman 22).
Secondly, while scheduled bottle-feeding is a common way to feed babies in the Western culture, most likely babies are breastfed on demand in Hmong and !Kung culture, due to the access to the Western technology and the high cost.
Lastly, compared to the Western parents, especially !Kung parents give children more freedom. The Western child rearing are more disciplined, so parents control almost everything for children. However, !Kung parents think children would learn important things like teamwork, efforts, and generosity as they grow up, so they do not really care the children’s
Provide essay-style answers (e.g., complete sentences) to the following questions. The best answers are accurate, highly descriptive, and well above the indicated "bare minimum" word ranges. Upload your completed assignment to your Laulima DROPBOX. Make sure to read each question carefully!
#1: (150 words minimum) Western medicine tends to have an “ethnocentric” view of itself in comparison to the medical beliefs and practices of other cultures – it sees its own beliefs and practices as superior to the more “primitive” practices and beliefs of other groups, peoples, and societies.
(a) (75 words minimum) Describe the smear campaign against midwives carried out by the …show more content…
*First, the babies of the both cultures, Hmong and !Kung, stay close to their mother until a certain age. Clearly, a !Kung baby would sleep beside a mother at night and be carried on the mother’s hip, regardless what the mother is doing. Similar to that, a Hmong baby would sleep in a mother’s arms all night and being on her back during daytime. In “Spirit Catches You,” it says that a study has found “Hmong mothers held and touched their babies far more frequently than Caucasian mothers” (Fadiman 22).
Secondly, while scheduled bottle-feeding is a common way to feed babies in the Western culture, most likely babies are breastfed on demand in Hmong and !Kung culture, due to the access to the Western technology and the high cost.
Lastly, compared to the Western parents, especially !Kung parents give children more freedom. The Western child rearing are more disciplined, so parents control almost everything for children. However, !Kung parents think children would learn important things like teamwork, efforts, and generosity as they grow up, so they do not really care the children’s