I believe Horace Miner was attempting to illustrate a shrewd way to critique the American culture. Miner describes how a foreigner would assess American culture. He describes odd lifestyles and the rituals of this detailed routine. Miner writes that every household has a shrine room. The shrine room is where rituals that are private are practiced there and every shine room has a box of magical potions. It took me a while to realize but Nacirema is American spelled backwards. The shrine room is the bathroom. The magical potions box is the medicine cabinet in the bathroom. Culture is created on rituals and each ritual outlines it authentically. Adequate performance elects its authorities by rituals. The outlook of the person observing on a
