The Type Of Subsistence Strategy: My Cultural Practices

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. The environment that my cultures lives in is a place where it doesn’t get too hot or too hot but it still is enough to allow their animals to have a good life, crops to grow properly, and for the people to live comfortably. There is plenty of rain and sunshine, however the rain and sunshine is not too powerful to kill the crops. Also, there are plenty of sources of water around in case something was too happen unexpected. There are different seasons to allow the ground to continue being nutritious for the crops but the crops can grow year round and the animals will have grass year round.
2. The type of subsistence strategy my culture practices is intensive agriculture. This means that they use the fields for intensive reasons all year round …show more content…

Resources that are needed are obtained through people harvesting and raising their own food as well as going to the stores to get whatever else is needed. The tools and technology used are tractors, plows, animals, and anything else needed to help make farming as easy as possible for the community. The impact that this strategy have on the environment is the dirt keeps getting more healthy by rotating the crops every so often to put whatever was taken out of the soil back in. Also, some of the grass wouldn’t need to be cut due to animals keeping it down which would allow for less pollutants to be let out. Instead of using fertilizer the animal dun can be used as a natural fertilizer which allows for less chemicals being put into the …show more content…

My culture deals with social control by having laws in place to keep people from breaking the laws. An example of one of the laws would be if a person steals from someone else then that person has to work for that person until they pay off what they stole and would have to return it the person who it belonged to. Also, the younger children through young adults have to listen and obey what their family tells them to do. Disputes are settled through a therapy like session where the people who are having a conflict talk to each other and figure out what exactly the problem is and how they can settle the dispute through compromise so both people get their way. For example, if the people where fighting over where their kids were playing and when, the compromise would be both sides pick a place where they can play but only at certain time on a certain day the children would be allowed to play in that area.
11. My culture is egalitarian meaning that age and even sex doesn’t affect the community or the work being done. Wealth and power is distributed in my society by the people with a lot of money help the less fortunate get the things they need to survive and help them get out of the situation they are in to eventually become wealthy as well. Everyone in this culture is equal despite wealth or not having a lot of