Cultural+Difference

//**Ashley**// - In chapter one they are talking about grass that is rich and matted, so much so that you can not even see the soil. In my opinion it compares the rich and matted grass to men. it states that "where you stand the grass is rich and matted, you cannot see the soil. But the rich green hills break down." To me that means that if man was to mess up they would be lower on the hill meaning that they are no longer on the rich matted grass but instead on the grass in which you see the soil. Moral of it being that grass is compared to men in their actions,and with bad decisions it will almost never be forgiven. //**Ryan **// - I Think that different names of the cities shows how the natives are starting to be taken over. They are slowly losing the back ground of the past which use to show the strength of their culture. Zeus - Men and women are different... __**Chapter 2**__ //**Ashley**// - I think it is "umfundisi" also known as Rev. Stephen Kumalo and his wife that are in cultural difference or better yet they are more different in their believes towards what one another should do. In this chapter Kumalo gets a letter and it states that his sister is really sick in Johannesburg. Well his wife decides for him that he needs to go so she finds all the money she has been saving and gives it to him but he is reluctant to take the money and go because his wife and him know that no many if any come back from Johannesburg. The differences between them is that one of them is willing to put it all out on the line yet the other is being more conservative and is not really willing to risk it all. //**Martell** -// umfundisi recieved a letter from Reverend Msimangu stating that Gertrude is very sick. I think he is forced to stay or vist Johannesburg a city he is not unfamiliar with. Being able to go to Johhanesburg he has to leave his wife and which he is not very happy because she is not giving good advice on how to handle the situation. //**Kaitlyn- **// This chapter talks more along with what and where your comforts are and where you are able to step out of your box. They talk about Kumalo getting a letter from his brother that lives in Johannesburg. The thing is that Kumalo is used to his surroundings and not that of Johannesburg. So with that Kumalo has to choose if he wants to step out of his box or stay within his comforts. //**Ryan-**// The cultural differences of this chapter show how Kumalo has to adapt to the new surroundings in Johannesburg. It shows how the different cultures collide and people must get use to new customs such as race, religion, and any other difference. **//Zeus - Kumalo's wife was wrong for the comment that she made about her son. As a mother she should have faith that her son will come back someday. I don't think Kumalo had anything to apologize for.//** __**Chapter 3**__ //**Ashley**// - Non-Europeans and Kumalo. Kumalo climbs into a carriage in which he states is "full of the humbler people of his race, some with strange assortments of European garments, some blankets over their strange assortment,and some with blankets over their dresses." He also goes to comparing himself to them and states that there was not even one person that was in that class that he was able to talk to.
 * __Chapter 1__**
 * //Martell -//** In my opinion of the hill and the rich matted grass comparing it to man is that the soil is so rich that you can't see the grass up hill, that man can be a hill. Life in general can start off rich and be mistaken for the problems in life. Not knowing on the other side of the hill their were red soil. Too many cattle fed upon the grass, and too many fires have burned it. All i'm trying to say is that man can be living happy one moment not knowing what can be lying ahead.
 * //Kaitlyn- //** In chapter one they introduce the land. In the beginning the land was untouched and beautiful, [[image:http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:h7DyPN9E2SJy6M:http://www.nzine.co.nz/Links/images/Franz_Joseph.jpg width="62" height="41" link="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.nzine.co.nz/Links/images/Franz_Joseph.jpg&imgrefurl=http://malaysia.answers.yahoo.com/question/index%3Fqid%3D20080218212531AA2C5Fi&h=300&w=400&sz=104&hl=en&start=8&um=1&tbnid=h7DyPN9E2SJy6M:&tbnh=93&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Duntouched%2Bland%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive"]]  and now the grass is brown and the animals have taken over. [[image:http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:sZeO7PWF3QIW_M:http://girlsoloinarabia.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/nile_delta.jpg width="77" height="47" link="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://girlsoloinarabia.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/nile_delta.jpg&imgrefurl=http://girlsoloinarabia.typepad.com/girl_solo_in_arabia/2006/07/index.html&h=343&w=470&sz=51&hl=en&start=14&um=1&tbnid=sZeO7PWF3QIW_M:&tbnh=94&tbnw=129&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dugly%2Bdestroyed%2Bland%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive"]] <span style="color: rgb(218, 27, 27); font-family: Georgia,serif"> Now when I say animals I am refering to the way that man acts. He is unaware of how his actions are influenced upon others.
 * //Martell//** - Umfundisi has fears and worries about going to Johannesburg. He has concerns about the different culture that he's going to be introduce to. He begins to ask himself questions on how much stephen sister's sickness cost, and is Johannesburg is a frightening as he heard. Just traveling alone on the train is out of his convert zone. With all the unfamiliar faces and having to deal with the visit to Johannesburg.
 * //<span style="color: rgb(82, 28, 242); font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace">Kaitlyn - //**<span style="color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; background-color: rgb(232, 211, 211)"> It is said that once you go to Johannesburg you never return and this is what Umfundisi fears. The culture difference where he lives now is way different then Johannesburg. Johannesburg is a better way of life. For example it would be like visiting Virginia Beach while living in Downtown Portsmouth.
 * Ryan**- Johannesburg was meant to be a better way out. The cultural difference between a lot of people is that they are afraid to try new things. If people try things they haven't done before, they actually might like it. There has been plenty of times when i refused to try new things. once i actually did it, it wasn't as ad as i portrayed it to be.
 * //Zeus- He worries about his son because he knows Johannasburg isn't an easy place to live. Small kids get killed by buses from just crossing the street. He is worried about his fate.//**

//**Ashley**// - <span style="color: rgb(174, 223, 114)"><span style="color: rgb(55, 160, 55)">the thief and kumalo. Now the thief is of kumalo's race but in a different class. The only problem is that this thief is well aware that he can take from kumalo because he has no idea what he is to do and what it is that he is not to do. So he trusts him and in turn he is taken advantage. The comparison with that is the fact that the thief is no different looking that kumalo yet he is intirely different. //**<span style="color: rgb(11, 10, 10)">Martell **// - The young man and Kumalo. The young man took advantage of Kumalo because he wasn't familiar about the locations in Johannesburg. But in fact he spoke and understood Kumalo language and took the pound Kumalo offered to him. Kumalo takes a train to Johannesburg, he staes that the train is the white man's wonder "A train that has no egine, only an iron cage on its head, taking power from metal ropes stretched out above." <span style="color: rgb(50, 236, 221); font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif">**//Kaitlyn-//** <span style="color: rgb(245, 20, 129); font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace">This chapter talks about how men no matter what their race is, are being considered as equals. Umfundisi is not use to any of this type of treatment. He is use to his comforts and defintiely not those of what is being presented to him. But he is still more than willing to make use of what he is learning. Ryan- The young man took advantage of kumalo because he saw his weakness. This is how much of our society runs today. The difference between the cultures is if they choose to have dignity to not except if not needed. The character of a person is shown if they make the right choices. __**Chapter 5**__ //**Ashley**// - <span style="color: rgb(55, 160, 55)">black and whites. Kumalo is at the the dinner table with other priests the only thing is that there is whites and blacks and that is definitely <span style="color: rgb(55, 160, 55)">surprising for him. He is not used to that and how they are treated as if they were equals. They all sat together after grace ad ate together. Where he was eating was also more classy than what he was used to. He was unaware of what to do and definately did not know what he was not supposed to do. //**Martell** - Black and Whites-// South Africa in Johannesburg, the white people treated the black people with no respect. Umfundisi nver sat at a table an eaten dinner with a group men he doesn't know. It's just not part of his culture. <span style="color: rgb(241, 39, 39); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">**//Kaitlyn -//** <span style="color: rgb(88, 12, 207); font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">Unlike where Umfundisi is used to living. The standards of Johannesburg are far far more advanced. I say that because with being able to share the same things as whites and sit at the same table non the less it is far more relaxed then what he is used to being. Ryan- People have been fighting for the rights of many people. The cultural difference from before is that people except others for who they are. You see plenty of couples these days who are interracial and are happy. We have evolved over the years and the future will til if it changes. __**Chapter 6**__ <span style="color: rgb(134, 13, 211); font-family: Georgia,serif">**//Kaitlyn-//**<span style="color: rgb(242, 53, 13); font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace"> <span style="color: rgb(242, 53, 13); font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace">In chapter 6 Kumalo has a hard time adapting. Blacks and Whites are not supposed to be together in his eyes. This is where culture difference plays a big role not only back then but in todays society as well. Back then whites were seen better as blacks. Today whites are not better then blacks but discrimination and racism play a role.
 * <span style="color: rgb(46, 15, 15)">__Chapter 4__ **
 * //Zeus - Kumalo doesn't understand the language and can't even read the traffic lights. The old man was nice to help him and give him a ticket after his money was stolen. He thought the young boy was real nice but he took his stuff.//**
 * //Zeus - It's crazy that he ued a real toilet for the first time. Crime is on a rise white elderly couple was attacked, and African girl was robbed and almost raped. The priest included both white and black.//**
 * //Ashley//** <span style="color: rgb(49, 160, 52)"><span style="color: rgb(54, 127, 47)">- <span style="color: rgb(55, 160, 55)"><span style="color: rgb(49, 160, 52)"><span style="color: rgb(44, 146, 160)"><span style="color: rgb(55, 160, 55)"><span style="color: rgb(55, 160, 55)"><span style="color: rgb(55, 160, 55)"><span style="color: rgb(59, 155, 49)"><span style="color: rgb(56, 180, 45)"><span style="color: rgb(54, 127, 47)"><span style="color: rgb(63, 161, 48); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(78, 131, 58)"><span style="color: rgb(40, 143, 46)"><span style="color: rgb(174, 223, 114)">New Surroundings and Kumalo. Kumalo is really having a heck of a time getting used to the surroundings. Because Kumalo is so used to what his prior surroundings were he is unable to blend with these surroundings. To him whites and blacks are not seen as equals instead blacks are as lower in rank then that of the Europeans or whites.
 * //Martell//**  - The Priest and Whites. The priest in Johannesburg says that the white man brought his father into light & out of darkness. The white man brought him into light by inverting his father to Christianity. Also the priest is not for segregation, how the streets of Claremont are filthy and filled with gangs along the trams in the city.
 * Ryan**- The Surroundings
 * //<span style="color: rgb(182, 160, 160)">Zeus - He was introduced to the slums.Gangs were here and more children were on the streets than in school.Their parents have no control. Gertrude feels like she's a failure. //**

//Ashley//** - <span style="color: rgb(115, 166, 54)"><span style="color: rgb(44, 144, 52)">Men and laws and the church. It states in this chapter that "the church is too like the chief. You must do so and so and so. You are not free to have an experience. A man must be faithful and meek and obedient, he must obey the laws, whatever the laws may be." Now to me this is very plain and brunt. Everyone has their own experiences in life and what is life if you do not experience things for yourself instead of taking other peoples advice. <span style="color: rgb(168, 80, 231)"><span style="color: rgb(8, 196, 100); font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif">**//Kaitlyn-//** <span style="color: rgb(19, 241, 66); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">"Because white man has power we to want power..." says Kumalo. Even though in Johanannesburg white and black men are seen as equal when the white man has power the blacks to want power. But when power is given to a black man along with money he is considered a great man only if he is not selfish. **//Zeus - John feels like Johannesburg i filled with opportunities for him. He doesn't have to obey a chief. Kumalo knew that most of what John was saying was true, this is why it was kind of painful. Ryan- The cultural difference in this is that you must hold a position in life. it may be you are a high power or the one who is ruled over. Different cultures express this in many ways. This could mean that when you go to foreign countries, you must understand that there might be a change in the way you live.//**
 * __Chapter7__
 * //Martell// -** John and Johannesburg and Ndotsheni. John states that he was a nobody in the town of Ndotsheni. He had to salute and bow to a cheif which he was a subject to. People in Ndotsheni do not understand the way of life is in Johannesburg. In Ndotsheni John was showed with no respect, but now he is free as man should be. He is at least free of the chief. A new society is being built in Johannesburg, the church here is like the chief. You must be obedient, and obey the laws that was set by the church.

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