Trying to understand the cultures of other groups of people is hard, whether the culture be extreme or not. After first reading Body Ritual among the Nacirema, this was the case as the culture seemed to be undoubtedly crazy. The rituals and customs of the Nacirema people are hard to understand as they hold spiritual and ritualistic reasoning. Every minor part of their days had some cultural meaning to it. Though, a comparison because the Nacirema people and the people of today shows that the rituals and customs are actually very similar, but thought of in a more cultural and spiritual way. Many of the rituals and customs of the Nacirema people align with the culture of Americans, but with different cultural reasoning. First, the “holy-mouth-men”