Ishmael

1. Ishmael's two rules of identifying people of our culture of culture are that their food is under lock and key and that people believe that they are fundamentally flawed and inherently doomed. I do not agree with this because people from different places adapt to different cultures and ways of life. Like if you were to live in a country where all the people act a certain way then you would start acting that way too because it would become your culture. Same thing goes for every country you could live in.

2. I agree with Ismael when he says Mother Culture is wrong when she says that humans are inherently flawed because if he is looking for someone to teach how to save the world he knows that they are not very flawed. I think he knows that people aren't perfect that is why they need his help but that they are not inherently.

3. The takers and leavers can be connected to our culture because the Native American Indians were hunter gathers until European settlers came from the other world. The Native Americans were fine with their lifestyle but the Europeans had another way of life they thought was better. It was farming and modern inventions. They told the Native Americans that is how they were meant to live and if they didn’t do it they would get their land taken over. Some Indian Tribes liked the new ways to do things so they changed there ways like the Europeans. and helped them make new modern villages, and converted to a different lifestyle. All that lead to what we do now.