Define culture - The Penan are one of the few remaining nomadic peoples of the rain forest.

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 Culture is the distinctive way of life, of a group of people and their complete design for living it is also important for creating social heritage, and it provides people with guiding values, norms and ideals for living.  Culture provides the foundation for our thoughts, emotions and actions.  Human beings share the same biology and have the same physic nature however how we respond to a range of situations will depend on our cultural influence.

Penan’s roam the rain forest invisible to us, every step impulsive and holds promise of a better day as a government authorized logging frenzy has all but destroyed the Penan homeland in the Malaysian state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo fewer than 300 Penan nomads remain alive today and to survive as a culture, they must keep moving, but they have almost nowhere left to go as loggers has invaded there homelands and is taking the meaning of home back to western civilization in order to make a better life for them selves.  “If they continue to extract timber,” said one Penan headman, “our lives will wither like leaves on the trees...” The world in which the Penan is living in, is threatened and is slowly coming to a halt at a rapid rate, as their homeland in the Malaysian state of Sarawak is undergoing one of the highest rates of logging on earth. The destruction of the forest in which these nomads have lived in for generations is forever being altered as the lives of the Penan and the other indigenous peoples of the rain forest are miss placed, these cultures will soon cease to exist if this hazardous attack on the forest and its residence is not stopped immediately.

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Though the remaining Penan civilization have been influenced by western behavior in terms of now having permanent homes by riversides, they continue to make long journeys into the forest to collect food, medicine, and other jungle products which is used to aid them, this however has been lost in the western societies as they depend on technology rather than traditional methods of helping and healing one self herbs and bushes which once had medicinal uses/value have been devoured in order to expand countries and build houses.  If these basic methods of healing one self were still in place the eco-system ...

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