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A Compearative Study on Culture Assignment

   

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A COMPEARATIVE STUDY ON CULTURE1This report analyses the differences and similarities of the culture of aboriginalpeople and Somalia’s own culture. Somalia is situated in the southern part of Africa.It is composed with single and homogenous ethnic group of people. Somalis mayhave different local lifestyles but most of them share a common language, religion aswell as culture. The Somalia’s culture is affluent with amalgamation of variouscultures. Somalia had people migrated from Kenya and Ethiopia who used to minglewith the aborigines and continued to be identified with the native Somalis until 18thcentury. The history of Somalia records that there was a colonial rule. Thesecolonisers divided the land populated by the ethnic Somalis. Moreover, it started tocult of slavery. The victims of war were taken to Europe, United States and Australia(Zambakari, Rivera and Anderson 2017). Some of these people were forced toescape to Australia who stated to stay along with the aboriginal Australians andcalled to be Somali Australians.There are numerous differences as well as similarities in the Somalia’s cultureand the aboriginals. Language is a means of communication which is also a vital andunique characteristic of communities. The language of Somalia is Somali but manypeople use Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic and English. The majority of people areMoslem. Hence Arabic is second common dialect used by the Somalis (Besteman2014). The aboriginal people use traditional indigenous languages. These traditionaldialects however are being abolished by the advent of colonial languages. As theaboriginals are absorbing changed culture hence the cultural dominance is a factorwhich aims to reduce this cultural gap among the traditional and modern people. Gender gap is huge in Somalia. There is a similarity in the aboriginal familieswith those of the Somalians. The male members are usually head of the family. Thewomen take care of the household as well as children. The male takingresponsibilities at home is seen to be unacceptable by both the societies. Men areresponsible for feeding their wives and families (Trehub, Becker and Morley 2015).The Somali people while working outside of the country send money to their families.Women on the other hand traditionally stay at home but after the civil war andinflation, the financial situation started to deteriorate hence the women began to workoutside. Women have more flexibility as well as community support and they canmaintain both the household and childcare while working outside. Sometimes itbecome difficult as the men never contrite in bringing up the children. The gender

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