There are many cultures around the world and each of them have different beliefs and practices that they abide by on a daily basis. It is these beliefs and practices that make them who they are. This also separates them from other cultures surrounding them. The cultural practice that I chose to discuss is practiced by the Sudanese Latuka tribe. This particular tribe is located in the Equatorial part of the South Sudan and have a population of about two hundred thousand people. They are a people that make decisions as a group and do not believe in having one person as the authority figure ruling over everyone. However the cultural practice that the Latuka partake in that I found rather intriguing is that the males of the tribe seeking a spouse
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In an ethnocentric perspective, this kind of behavior exhibited by the male is very unusual and not normal at all. This is nothing like how Americans go about the marriage process by any means at all. Americans for the most part follow a sort of unwritten code of steps to guide them through that process. They first find someone of the opposite sex that appeals to them and the first step is to begin dating, not to kidnap them. Usually the couple will wait a few years and then the male will propose to his partner sometimes in a glamorous way. The way the Latuka tribe goes about this process is not the normal way that the majority of the world does. The way this tribe goes about marriage is not the proper way a person should choose their future spouse. This also exposes how the Lakuta view women and treat them. They show no respect in their treatment towards women, nor do they allow women to make their own choices. Not only do they disrespect women, but they tear them away from their families and don’t allow them to see them unless the female’s father agrees with the marriage. This is just one of many cultural practices that makes it so that women have absolutely no say in what should be considered a huge life
In an ethnocentric perspective, this kind of behavior exhibited by the male is very unusual and not normal at all. This is nothing like how Americans go about the marriage process by any means at all. Americans for the most part follow a sort of unwritten code of steps to guide them through that process. They first find someone of the opposite sex that appeals to them and the first step is to begin dating, not to kidnap them. Usually the couple will wait a few years and then the male will propose to his partner sometimes in a glamorous way. The way the Latuka tribe goes about this process is not the normal way that the majority of the world does. The way this tribe goes about marriage is not the proper way a person should choose their future spouse. This also exposes how the Lakuta view women and treat them. They show no respect in their treatment towards women, nor do they allow women to make their own choices. Not only do they disrespect women, but they tear them away from their families and don’t allow them to see them unless the female’s father agrees with the marriage. This is just one of many cultural practices that makes it so that women have absolutely no say in what should be considered a huge life