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Teachings I have been taught from my ethnic group that shapes my perceptions of how I perceive the world around me

15 May 2024, 12:27 Publicly Viewable

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.