I fall under the xhosa  ethnic group, I have norms and values I have been taught which shaped the vision that I have for things I see around the world. Firstly my ethnic group is a group that strongly believe in ancestors, so most of the things we do has to involve our ancestors too, for examples If one may have an interview of a certain job, he or she must talk to the ancestors before going to the interview so that the ancestors could give him or her some blessings. This means that from our elders  we learned , that If ever we want to fix our life situations, we should to communicate to our ancestors so that they can open our ways. Not only my ethnic group believes in ancestors because majority of South African's ethnics groups believe in ancestors, so this effect creates a picture of a single story to people from societies like western societies and this leads to a point where they bring their own perceptions of how we view the world around us. Since most Africans believe in ancestors other nations see this whole ideas as a total madness.  

When I'm reflecting to what I've learned in this unit, I became aware that I have the social capital which are the people I'm always with every day at campus and I'm also aware that I've been sharing my economic capital with the social network I'm associated with. I like the fact that we exchange items in a form of balanced reciprocity because every time I buy them something they make sure they return something like that in return too. The fact that we're connected socially and we're students, we also share cultural capital too in a sense that if one of may happen not to comprehend something that some of us have a clear understanding of it, we share the knowledge so that we can pass in our classes. I was also aware that I have economic capital in my possession which is my laptop and one of my friends doesn't have it so sometimes when we're given assignments, I borrow him, so this shows that I've been exchanging economical capital without being aware. I've learned that the type of exchange reciprocity involved when it comes to kinship is generalized reciprocity which the one giving doesn't require any return because it is their responsibility to exchange capital. I learned that through capital and exchange reciprocity people can have a sense of belonging, and I'm talking from experience because I also had a sense of belonging when I started seeing one of my friends' doing sacrifices for me. Back in high school I had a friend who gave me support in every circumstance I find myself in, his parents gave him money for lunch, and he used to share it with me and he didn't want any return from that so that means he was more than a friend to me but he was like family because he cared for me just like we are blood related .That relationship I had with him qualified to be a relationship of a kinship because even if people are not blood related, but they can still consider to be the next of kin. There is also another person who referred himself as my friend, but he didn't have good social networking because I was the only one who is providing my economic, social and cultural capital to him and he didn't give back to what I give. According to what I've learned that kind of reciprocity is the negative because that person kept on receiving from me and I wasn't receiving nothing from him. By reading this chapter I now understand that my father sacrificed for us to have economic capital because he understands the value of kinship. now that I've read and understood the chapter now, I know that my late grandfather who used to tell us stories was exchanging the cultural capital, and also every time when he got his pension money, he was buying us some sweets so that means he also shared his economic capital with us his grandchildren.