<p>Haha, my first reaction to reading the article was to laugh – mainly because I knew WHO the Nacirema were. It would’ve been better if I didn’t know, but still… Not to sound pretentious in any way but our own culture is just ridiculous at times. The things we worship, the things we are interested in. I mean, do I really care about Britney’s bald new look? (No.) It’s really aggravating when I’m trying to search for news and the first thing that pops up is something on Paris Hilton or Britney Spears. OK, I’m deviating from the original point…</p>
<p>I guess, from a TOK perspective, it brings up interesting implications about how we view other cultures when we put how we view other cultures on ourselves (awkward sentence). The anthropologist SOUNDS objective – but is he/she really? It’s a Problem of Perception/Language 
– hope the TOKers got the joke. Ditto for the historian. We’re always trying to be objective, impartial, fair…but are we accomplishing it?</p>
<p>This is much more incoherent than I usually am. Man, he could’ve written a freakin’ TEXTBOOK about this. The culture of celebrity, capitalism (not that it’s evil), food, gambling, TV vs. books, reality shows, etc. etc. The list goes on and on. Just shows how our culture just as weird and absurd as everyone else’s. </p>
<p>I think someone else did it on the ELIBOMOTUA, but I didn’t read that one. I’ll probably have to later. I’ll stick with Lolita for now.</p>