Sociology and other cultures

When someone gets married, especially in my culture you're expected to support each other in every way possible. The IK culture would strongly disagree with this as they believe that if they "struggle to survive in the face of drought, famine and starvation" what are they doing supporting another person when they are in need themselves. They don't support any of their family at all and the "sick and disabled children too are abandoned". The Promo Indians would strongly be in opposition to the IK cultures views on support and the same goes to my culture as well. The Promo Indians believe in support to the extent of that "we would suffer the devils, spirits, ghosts or other people if we did not support one another". The Nayar society of southern, do believe in supporting each other however, it focuses on blood supporting blood and anything outside of blood cannot support them or it was limited. Even husband and wife cannot support each other; "husbands were expected to give their wife's gifts but did not maintain them in any way; the Nayar women relied n their own brothers and sisters".

The promo Indians believe in respect for old people as they say that old people are important and that they are wise. In my culture old people are highly respected, and you're expected to do anything they say, and you can't just approach them, any way you wanted to even if you want to talk to them you have to ask for permission. The IK don't believe in respecting elderly or anyone else as they feel that there "useless appendages" because apparently "they use up precious resources". In a way I do feel that the Nayar society of southern, do have respect for each other as when a husband visits a Nayar woman, firstly they ask for permission and secondly " the husband placed his weapons outside so that her husband knew he was there". I think that showing respect towards the husband and to the Nayar women as well. However the fact that the Nayar women could be seeing 12 men including her husband, in my culture it would be seen as committing adultery and prostitution. Even though the IK family don't believe in husband and wife, I believe that they could be in favour of the Nayar society of southern, of the women seeing different men and the men seeing different women. Reason being that if "family means very little" then there no sense of security that you with a particular person so they could also sleep with different people.

There are many different cultures with their own values, and I feel that there will always be a culture that will think differently of it or agree with it. When it comes to my culture in general I believe that over the past years we have become lenient and adapted to the modern world. For example Marriage, it's now accepted in some cases to not get married where as if it was years ago it would have been seen as unjust and wrong.