Igbo Culture Vs American Culture

Between our daily rituals, our religion, and styles of speech, we are extremely different than africa, but we also have some similarities. The united states is pretty much a whole different world compared to the igbo culture in africa. Im sure many people have wondered what it would be like to live in a different part of the world, and in this essay, you should get a better understanding in the similarities and differences between the igbo culture and the united states. In english class, we have read a book called Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe, and have learned some things about how the igbo culture was and how they ran society. Some of the things they did would be completely wrong to do here in america.

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Here our traditional foods are foods like hamburgers, corn on the cob, baked beans, potato salad, cornbread, deviled eggs, meatloaf, sloppy joes, hot dogs, apple pie, and chocolate chip cookies. We celebrate holidays such as presidents day, Memorial day, independence day (fourth of july), labor day, christmas, etc. On the bigger holidays like the fourth of july, you will usually see a bunch of people gathering for a party. Most of the time when you go to someone's party, you bring a dish of food. Once everyone brings some food, there is like a buffet for everyone to eat at. We celebrate thanksgiving, this is another time people will get together to have a big meal, but it is usually family or real close friends that come to this meal, and it is more formal the the fourth of

In the igbo culture, when twins are born they are killed. In the book, i learned that there is this thing called the evil forest. Whenever someone did something bad or something that they thought was against religion or against their rules, they would kill someone and leave them in the evil forest. When a twin was born they were both killed because they were thought to be evil. The igbo people thought there was spirits and gods in the