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    Anthropology.

    This is a study of culture in humanity, where sociology is the study of how people interact within psychological parameters - this is more surface level than sociology, i would say.

    One of the things that comes to mind with this field of study is how people find different cultures. this is because they live in different areas with different things influencing them. for example, a farmer in the first world i different culturally to a farmer in the third world because of the influence of media on them, or, the difference in temperature. maybe the farmers in the first world would get irrigation, while the third world farmer would do a rain dance.

    If you want to know what the people of the area will do at any given time, you need to observe the habitat they live in, optimally, it could be a concrete jungle or something. if there is a land mark, they will gather there and dress appropriately, maybe in dungarees if in florida or gum boots if in the marsh of africa.

    Then, there are factors like ways of speaking. this is because they have different languages for example, and they will stress different words in different ways, of course. like, for example, a city that says the same word over and over again will enjoy it less. this could be like "buy" on the stock market, or "hurry" in the street repairmen's way of speaking, of course.

    So, the less you say something the more you enjoy saying it, i reckon. if it was that something sounds nice, what makes it sound nice? the sounds of words will always sound nice to all ears - the same words, spoken the same way - with the emphasis on certain syllables and so forth. for example, an african puts the emphasis at the beginning and end of the words, while an english speaker puts emphasis in the middle of the words. this is because the black people in my area would like to get your attention and then leave you with a final impression, while a english speaker would rather be polite at the start and end. The african wants to address the person with a throat clearing of sorts, and the english person wants to be quite to get people to listen, and then needs to keep their attention.
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    Then, there is also the habitat or surroundings of the culture. if you find yourself out in the bush, say you are in africa, then you will think that everything is smaller than you, so your spine will go forwards a little bit as you look down the whole time. this leads to physical changes of the human form, of course. or, if you live in the forest, you will always be looking up, and that is why europeans usually have a good posture. in the east, you will find that people are usually shorter with a good posture, and this is because of high trees and having to carry heavy loads, crushing their spines. this is all evolution meets habitat, of course.

    What about the tone people speak in? in the city, people are used to shouting for attention for their stalls or for the students to listen, or, in the office, when people are not doing their work properly. in the country, people will speak less forcefully and slower due to the way they approach life.

    Then, there is the way people have adapted accents. they will develop a certain way of speaking due to the way others speak. in port cities they will meet many different people speaking this or that way, and sailors have drifted all over the world in their lives. the sailors speak to people that buy their goods and in turn these buyers will speak to the people in stalls there, or, where they used to be selling goods. these people have spread accents all over various cities and therefore they have mixed pressure with eloquence, and the result is a vast array of accents.
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    The culture of the area might be down to which aspect you are looking at. if you want to know how often there is violence, or how often there is charity, then you need to observe each city uniquely.

    Basically, you get gentle or hostile societies. these societies might be as diverse as each suburb you travel through. it could come down to poverty, with the people in need finding ways to satisfy that need no matter what. i mean, if you are without, you will realize that someone else could be you and you them, yes? if you need to steal something, then you probably will to feed yourself in one way or another. this is down to culture also, as, with religion, there might be a personal or social way of dealing with thieves. say you might go to jail, be lynched or even believe that god will punish you. imagine you bring home something to eat and your family asks you where you got it? imagine they reject it through pride? all these things i will shortly explain.

    If a society is advanced it is usually harder. this is because the people of the advanced area will be into the fantasies that the media feeds them, straying away from the real needs of man. if the society is gentle and charitable then you will find that the people are grounded in 'the real world,' feeling the pain of others, more in touch with the world, hell their senses work better when outside getting fresh air and stuff too!

    Regarding sin, if someone sins then often they are made an example of in any society. if the people were to decide that they will face a kangaroo court, or merely have to share their spoils with the rest of some shack dwellers, then they will dealt with in this way if caught. the severity of the punishment is down to the overall poverty level of the place! if they are all bloated and hungry, then sharing will be the course of the day, if they are all rather hungry living on minimum wage, then they will have to explain it to the others where they got the money, or be lynched, as the people living there will also have some means to an end and look down on those that do not work, for any reason or other. if it is a rich society, then they report them, as, it is like being told you are soft target by your gardener, yes? if it is a rural setting then there is usually a explanation required, as if it were a minimum wage earning society.
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    Religion is a sensitive subject for law makers. this is because some of the things found in the bible do not agree with what we practice today. all religions have different ways of prescribed living, but, what makes a people choose a religion?

    If you were to observe that all people were either oblivious to or pagan in religion, then you will also find that if a person comes saying there is one true god, the people will agree as if it was their one true king or something. if then they were to hear that this true god was to have laws that they agree with, and about half the world practices this 'one god principle,' then you will see that they also readily agree that these laws are righteous in their eyes.

    So, let's take Jesus? he came into a pagan world of rome and created a legacy of miracles and such, winning people over to him and his father. now, if the people find one true god in any culture or region, then they will defend them and accept them, thinking of the punishment of not doing so. if they were to choose a religion that is logical to them, then they will have had to have had great wisdom explained to them in it.

    So, what draws the near east and africa to Allah and the west to Jehova? well, it is all relay culture, where, the parents and established society show the child that it is highly thought of to be a person of certain religions. this is where the habitat itself is showing people what to do, yes?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brett Nortje View Post
    This is a study of culture in humanity, where sociology is the study of how people interact within psychological parameters - this is more surface level than sociology, i would say.

    One of the things that comes to mind with this field of study is how people find different cultures. this is because they live in different areas with different things influencing them. for example, a farmer in the first world i different culturally to a farmer in the third world because of the influence of media on them, or, the difference in temperature. maybe the farmers in the first world would get irrigation, while the third world farmer would do a rain dance.

    If you want to know what the people of the area will do at any given time, you need to observe the habitat they live in, optimally, it could be a concrete jungle or something. if there is a land mark, they will gather there and dress appropriately, maybe in dungarees if in florida or gum boots if in the marsh of africa.

    Then, there are factors like ways of speaking. this is because they have different languages for example, and they will stress different words in different ways, of course. like, for example, a city that says the same word over and over again will enjoy it less. this could be like "buy" on the stock market, or "hurry" in the street repairmen's way of speaking, of course.

    So, the less you say something the more you enjoy saying it, i reckon. if it was that something sounds nice, what makes it sound nice? the sounds of words will always sound nice to all ears - the same words, spoken the same way - with the emphasis on certain syllables and so forth. for example, an african puts the emphasis at the beginning and end of the words, while an english speaker puts emphasis in the middle of the words. this is because the black people in my area would like to get your attention and then leave you with a final impression, while a english speaker would rather be polite at the start and end. The african wants to address the person with a throat clearing of sorts, and the english person wants to be quite to get people to listen, and then needs to keep their attention.
    The climate shaped both the people and the culture . We are still seeing the effects of this today ad will for sometime to come. For example the Pgymies that Collin Turnbull desrcibed in the 60's were a gentle people who lived in a land of plenty. Those who carved out a living in the dessert , a different story

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brett Nortje View Post
    This is a study of culture in humanity, where sociology is the study of how people interact within psychological parameters - this is more surface level than sociology, i would say.

    One of the things that comes to mind with this field of study is how people find different cultures. this is because they live in different areas with different things influencing them. for example, a farmer in the first world i different culturally to a farmer in the third world because of the influence of media on them, or, the difference in temperature. maybe the farmers in the first world would get irrigation, while the third world farmer would do a rain dance.

    If you want to know what the people of the area will do at any given time, you need to observe the habitat they live in, optimally, it could be a concrete jungle or something. if there is a land mark, they will gather there and dress appropriately, maybe in dungarees if in florida or gum boots if in the marsh of africa.

    Then, there are factors like ways of speaking. this is because they have different languages for example, and they will stress different words in different ways, of course. like, for example, a city that says the same word over and over again will enjoy it less. this could be like "buy" on the stock market, or "hurry" in the street repairmen's way of speaking, of course.

    So, the less you say something the more you enjoy saying it, i reckon. if it was that something sounds nice, what makes it sound nice? the sounds of words will always sound nice to all ears - the same words, spoken the same way - with the emphasis on certain syllables and so forth. for example, an african puts the emphasis at the beginning and end of the words, while an english speaker puts emphasis in the middle of the words. this is because the black people in my area would like to get your attention and then leave you with a final impression, while a english speaker would rather be polite at the start and end. The african wants to address the person with a throat clearing of sorts, and the english person wants to be quite to get people to listen, and then needs to keep their attention.
    Where is the second world?

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    Quote Originally Posted by donttread View Post
    The climate shaped both the people and the culture . We are still seeing the effects of this today ad will for sometime to come. For example the Pgymies that Collin Turnbull desrcibed in the 60's were a gentle people who lived in a land of plenty. Those who carved out a living in the dessert , a different story
    Determinism is too passive and insults the active and intelligent people who overcome slavery, both to Nature and to destructive natural instincts, such as passivity itself. Nothing in nature is where it belongs unless Man puts it there.
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    Quote Originally Posted by donttread View Post
    Where is the second world?
    It used to be the near east and such.
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