The Gods Must Be Crazy

“The Gods Must Be Crazy” is a 1980s South African comedy classic . The protagonist, a traveling bushman, encounters a modern civilian for the first time. The movie became an international hit. The bushman character was based off of the !Kung peoples of South Africa, a hunter-gatherer society (IMDb, 2016). With this however, the movie displayed many stereotypes, which is defined by Richard D. Bucher as, “…an unverified and oversimplified generalization about an entire group of people (Bucher, 2000). So in the interest of dispelling some of these stereotypes, we will examine the !Kung peoples thought their early history, language, beliefs, social structure and hierarchy, gender roles, and recent history. The !Kung are a San people that live…

Privilege the Value of “Whiteness” Despite its Attempts to Promote the “Bushmen” Society as Almost Utopian in its Innocence and Purity? The film “The Gods Must Be Crazy” highlights the difference between the “Bushmen” society, a “stress-free” isolated San “tribe” who live in the Kalahari dessert, with other characters, such as Kate Thompson and Andrew Steyn, who underline the “whiteness” of society with their “civilized” way of life during the 1980’s. During this time, it is important to note…

Must Be Crazy The way that Non-Africans tend to view the continent of Africa is often unbecoming and strewed. When the continent is mentioned, the image of Africans being uncivilized, illiterate, and simply backwards may be some of the first characteristics of Africa to come to thought. This portrayal of Africans leads to the belief that in order to prosper, Western salvation is needed in Africa. These thoughts have been programmed into the minds of Non-Africans because of publications such as…

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,…

Within the movie, "The Gods Must be Crazy", the depiction of modern life is similar and different to how I perceive life to in our part of the world today. The similarities consist of adapting our environment to suit ourselves, forcing more school on future children to make it in the world, and having our day chopped up into little pieces. While the difference we have is the concept of working doesn’t apply to everyone and we don’t have to continuously adapt to our segmented day every day…

1) After analyzing the lives of the Kalahari people, we can see what levels of Maslow’s hierarchy of motivations/needs their lives are meeting. The levels I believe are being met consist of physiological needs, safety needs, belongingness needs, and esteem needs. From the movie “The Gods Must Be Crazy” we can see the Kalahari people are meeting their physiological needs through hunting and gathering. The Kalahari use hunting to acquire meat from animals and use gathering to acquire edible things…

The devil is always roaming the world to tempt us and to sabotage our faith in God, but God uses multiple tests to develop our faith in Him. We as a human being must be tested by faith for God to trust us with His word. False faith fails at times of us being tested in our trial, but crazy faith helps us to grow and mature in areas to edify God 's Kingdom. Faith clarifies why God authorized the three "black" Hebrew men who names were, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to be tested by their faith.…

Sermon January 22, 2017 – Rev. Nancy Bidlespacher We have just heard the text from the gospel of Mark 3:19-21: “Then [Jesus] went home; and the crowd came together again, so that they could not even eat. When his family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for people were saying, ‘He has gone out of his mind.’” The King James Version of the Bible translates the concern of Jesus’ family for him in these words: “He is beside himself.” The old J. B. Phillips New Testament translates it, “People…

He alone has kept his promises, all his promises to the Jewish people.” I think what this means is that Hitler had promised to take out Jewish people, and he has been closer to completing this than the Allies to stop the genocide, or God to save the Jews. What I also think this may mean is that the Nazis have taken the role of God to the Jews in the eyes of Wiesel. The way Wiesel sees it, the Nazis chose who would live and die, who would do what, and offered the only sense of justice about what…

there is one God and He created everything. He is the truth and His word is the truth. This is hard for most people in my generation because we are all about tolerance. If it does not affect us personally, why should we care? But the Bible tells us differently, that we are not of this world, and that makes us outcasts at times. I am okay with that. Consequently, one of the fundamental problems we face today is society’s view on sex and marriage. One issue in the realm is pornography. The…