The Old Nacirama culture described is similar to the modern Nacirama culture. All of the rituals described have been for the most part unchanged for 50 years. For example the modern counterpart of each of the rituals are the same, people still use medicine cabinets, people still go to the Pharmacist, prescriptions are well over priced and people go to the dentist and fear the drilling in their mouths.
The only differences are the Ritual ablution of the mouth for children have vastly changed. That Ritual does not occur anymore since it is borderline child abuse in this day and age. Punishment for children in this modern age is less drastic in fear that an extreme punishment would do more harm than good.
I think the culture of the Nacirema of yesteryear and the culture today are quite similar with a few exceptions. For the most part the people of the Nacirema are still driven by the same desires and motives from 50 years ago.
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I feel that this culture that we speak of when referring to ourselves is not only spoken of as fanatic and old to what we do now, but it is still correct. The subjects now adays with younger crowds could have been discussed in this article so that it would not only be interesting to the parnets of the teenagers, but the teenagers themselves. Talking about brushing one's teeth is not near as exciting as talking about the right of passage of graduating highschool. In all though, I found this article very intrilguing and am mistified to see how we can be described just as well as if we were describing the other cultures that we look down upon.
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