Cultural Differences Between Ponijao And Mongolia

less and does not have the time to complete it. When nursing a child, especially a newborn, allowing the child to latch and become satisfied with the amount of milk that they have consumed can take, on average, an hour. As a farmer and gatherer in Mongolia, Bayar’s mother does not have the time to do this task and keep the cattle where they need to be as well as managing the crop growth. The cattle and crops are how they most likely get a majority of their income, and neglecting these tasks can lead

and reading chapter one, I can positively say that the movie encourages us to view child development in its cultural context. The movie “Babies” focused its development in four regions of the world, Opuwo, Namibia, Tokyo, Japan, Bayanchandmani, Mongolia and San Francisco, California. In Namibia, Ponijao lives with her family who are part of the Himba tribe. I was most interested in watch Ponijao develop because their lifestyle and culture was so diverse compared to the average American life. Mari, raised

the various lifestyles of each culture impacts a child’s development. The babies are Hattie from California, Mari from Japan, Bayar from Mongolia, and Ponijao from Namibia.The film shows the infancy and toddlerhood period of the babies as well as their development physically, cognitively, and socially. According to our textbook, Myron W. Lustig defines cultural patterns as “shared beliefs, values, norms, and social practices that are stable over time and that lead to roughly similar behaviors across

documentary, “Babies”, I learned specifically about the social interaction between babies and their mothers. Socialization is a huge part in the younger years of life because it sets a basis of social norms that should be followed in that certain baby’s society throughout their life. There were four families touched on in the documentary from four different countries; Japan, Mongolia, Africa and America. Many similarities and differences were recognized and easily helped illustrate how diverse the world

Babies (Balmes, 2010) is an unusual documentary film that does not have any narration. This documentary film follows four babies from four different countries: Ponijao from Namibia, Bayar from Mongolia, Mari from Japan, and Hattie from the United States. The film takes viewers to these four babies’ development from their birth to roughly around age one. These four babies are different starting from when they are born. While Namibian parents gets no help from hospital, American parents does not even