Showing posts with label Cultural Literacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cultural Literacy. Show all posts

Africa, Where Masturbation and Homosexuality Do Not Exist

"When sex means reproduction, certain proclivities may simply not be part of cultural models of sexuality."


Barry and Bonnie Hewlett had been studying the Aka and Ngandu people of central Africa for many years before they began to specifically study the groups' sexuality. As they reported in the journal African Study Monographs, the married couple of anthropologists from Washington State University "decided to systematically study sexual behavior after several campfire discussions with married middle-aged Aka men who mentioned in passing that they had sex three or four times during the night. At first [they] thought it was just men telling their stories, but we talked to women and they verified the men's assertions."

In turning to a dedicated study of sex practices, the Hewletts formally confirmed that the campfire stories were no mere fish tales. Married Aka and Ngandu men and women consistently reported having sex multiple times in a single night. But in the process of verifying this, the Hewletts also incidentally found that homosexuality and masturbation appeared to be foreign to both groups.

Aunk's commentary:
This is a remarkable read that I recommend to all my readers. In many African Cultures there is no word for Masturbation and Homosexuality. They think of sex as a kind of night work looking for children. Wow!

Cultural Literacy Minute: When Westerners say something is just "human nature", their own science now indicates that the statement should be corrected to Western nature. We should not confuse social nature, "human nature" and natural law.

This is a good time to remind ourselves of the three major worldviews i.e. the  central worldview (African), the Eastern worldview (Asian) and the Western worldview (Caucasian) in the order of their coming into recorded history. The cosmological orientation and resulting Values, Interests and Principles (VIP's) as Dr. Jeffries points out must be understood if one is to be considered a Culturally Literate global citizen.

To reach reasoned conclusions about man one must have the facts from all three worldviews leaving any worldview out of any fact finding mission by definition calls any resulting conclusions into question.

Living according to natural law seems to work just fine.

Does anyone know the three purposes of Sex?



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Where Masturbation and Homosexuality Do Not Exist - Atlantic Mobile:
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The Three Stories of Memorial Day - An AA view


As the U.S. Civil War came to a close in April 1865, Union troops entered the city of Charleston, S.C., where four years prior the war had begun. While white residents had largely fled the city, Black residents of Charleston remained to celebrate and welcome the troops, who included the TwentyFirst Colored Infantry. Their celebration on May 1, 1865, the first “Decoration Day,” later became Memorial Day.
May 1 1865 will be the first words out of my mouth today, first to my mate and children, then to everyone I meet. I will alert them to the Cultural Health opportunity in the memorial day holiday for Americans of good will.

As you know in the pursuit of improving our nation's Cultural Health I emphasize the use of American holiday's as major Cultural Health opportunities, for the nation's short attention span is more focused during theses times and emotions are high. For that reason these are important times to identify major elements of Cultural Poisoning and provide family, friends and readers with the antidote, should they decide to accept the holiday cultural health mission.
Let's Go To The Video Tape




Just in case you are wondering the first lady signs too. for full details on this story Click Here These are good practical examples of Cultural Health in action. Think about it, the largest poly-ethnic group in America and you and I can't even say hello or thank you in their language, how can that be?

The President raised my cultural literacy and I have disabled children . What did I learn; that ASL means American Sign language. I know I leaned that before this, but this time it really sunk in. An American President should be able to speak an American language, at least a little. That goes for us citizens too.

I realized that even after seeing him I did not know how he said "thank you"in ASL. So I turned to my trusty Iphone and asked Siri," how do you say thank you in sign language". She said just a minute, working on that and then took me to a video. Click Here

I went on to lean "what's up" a sort of hello. I will ask my daughter her learned to sign from a schoolmate how to say the formal "Hello"

As a part of my cultural Literacy effort I learned  to say hello in many different languages from African to Asian, now I have added ASL. It is amazing how people automatically understand you care and respect  them if you have taken the time to lean something of their language.

What a beautiful day, The President has helped you raise your Cultural Literacy today. Now you know how to stay "thank you" in ASL Too +[;-)



Black History Month: Experts Discover First Modern Aircraft Was Designed by Africans

Yes, the evidence is in, thousands of years before the Wright Brothers in 1948, Africans in Classical African Civilization, Kemet built the first modern airplane in recorded history (Video)

African Plane


Let's Go To The Video Tape:




She seemed to me at this moment to embody many of the great elements of a siting Queen of Classical African Civilization, Kemet (Ancient Egypt) come to visit the great one's of the South.

Like most AA's and people of good will around the world, Whitney's spirit was in the fight to free South Africa. Let us now take a look at her with the man she came to honor. It is most edifying to feel the oneness of Whitney with the people, the land and President Mandela.

Whitney Houston Meets Nelson Mandela (0:35)