Cultural Assessment Assignment Culture is a peculiar form of life, pertaining to customs, beliefs, arts, of a group within a society at a given time. Also, culture encompass what is considered wrong or acceptable (N’dri, 2016). For this particular reason, culture is essential because it defines a person in various ways, including their views, values, fears, and desires. Identifying oneself with a culture provides a sense of belonging, purpose, and identity. Cultures are passed on from generation to generations have been sustained for many years . Cultures are unique to the people who identifies with them and that influence their beliefs, roles, activities, and habits. Culture that is common among people in different societies’ offers …show more content…
Rwandan political condition deteriorated after the fall of the President. Rusesabagina and his family witnessed how his neighbors were murdered through ethnic cleansing (Sragow, 2005). In the early part of the genocide, Rusesabagina bribed some influential people to protect his family with alcohol and money. Rusesabagina distracts the Hutu rebels and sneaks his family and neighbors into his hotel.
Assessment of Culture and Ethnic Traits The family’s culture as depicted in Rusesabagina’s family did not only include the Rwandans but their neighboring countries who share the Kinyarwanda dialect. History had it that the Twa were the original settlers of Rwanda. They were joined by the Hutus who came from the west and the Tutsis followed from the northeast. These three ethnic groups shared a culture and were able to settle as a nation. They spoke the same language which is Kinyarwanda and also practiced the same religion. In the movie this can be seen in how Rusesabagina, a Hutu and his wife Tatiana, a Tutsi lived in harmony as a husband and wife without any form of conflict that they both had to compromise. Socio cultural aspect of the movie deals with the lifestyle. Food and alcohol is shared at frequent ceremonial activities held together by all the ethnic groups. With this trait, Rusesabagina was able to use food and alcohol to bribe people to protect his family which
Beforehand, Rusesabagina had been raised in a mud house with illiterate parents but well respected in their village of Nkomero. At a young age Rusesabagina had to sleep outside because his parents were keeping refugees during a periodic uprise of violence between the Hutu and Tutsi. As Rusesabagina grew up he had different interests than some people. “More interested in getting an education than in becoming involved with ethnic politics, Rusesabagina aimed at first
Tom Zoellner, writes in his bibliography “An Ordinary Man” about the period of the Rwandan Genocide. Its impact and repercussions on the people, and how one hospitality-employed leadership figure by the name of Paul Rusesabagina saved 1,268 Tutsis through goodwill and courageous negotiations, are chronically ordered and told in detail. Ominously, the author introduces you into a standard of life that to us seems inexistent.
In his memoir, Rusesabagina recalled his father providing shelter to fleeing Tutsis in his native village (pg. 6) and a time period when a good friend of his had to flee from school because of ethnic build up between the Hutu and Tutsi (pg. 20). Rusesabagina lived in a family mixed with Hutu and Tutsi. His mother was a Tutsi and he was married to a Tutsi, making their children three-quarters Tutsi. His children, however, were considered Hutu in Rwanda because of Rusesabagina’s ethnic lineage from his father’s side. As a young man, Rusesabagina did not follow his family’s dream to become a pastor but instead moved to Kigali in search of a job leading to his job at the hotel (pg. 40). Rusesabagina’s employment at the hotel gave him access to play a pivotal role during the Rwanda genocide. Rusesabagina describes bribing Hutu militants with money and a smile and even inviting them over to share drinks with(pg. 131). Through this tactful manners, Rusesabagina was able to protect the lives of his guests, mostly ethnic Tutsis for 76
Culture is one of the most relevant elements that can define not only a society but also a country’s cumulative beliefs and system. Often noted as the origins of a country, culture is definitive in the sense that it harbors all the elements that can provide justification on the traditions and norms set by the society for its members. More often than not, the society members follow norms in order to create a harmonious community, and the beliefs and the traditions serve as the poles or grounding rules for each member to follow. Culture is very dynamic in the way that it can change over a variety of foreign influences but what is permanent about it is that original elements about it often lingers with the influences, therefore making it multi-faceted and broad. More importantly, culture serves as an individual and unique trait each society has, and therefore sets it apart from other countries and other societies.
The first known inhabitants of Rwanda were the Twa. They may have been there as early as 30,000 B.C. The Hutus arrived sometime between the seventh and tenth century, and later the Tutsis arrived around the fourteenth century. The Hutus were the majority and made up about eighty-five percent of the population. The minorities were the Tutsis, who made up fourteen percent of the population and the Twa, who were about one
Located in Central Africa, east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and north of Burundi, the Republic of Rwanda is predominantly rural, and its population relatively young; additionally, its population density is one of the highest in Africa. Humans began inhabiting the region between 8,000 BCE - 3,000 BCE, and had structured themselves into various clans (Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa) by the 15th century. The Tutsi Nyiginya clan grew to be the more dominant, and during the 19th century, under the reign of King Kigeli Rwabugiri, reached its greatest expansion. Hutus make make 84 percent of the population, Tutsi 15, and Twa 1 percent.
The assassination of the president of Rwanda, Juvenal Habyarimana on April 6, 1994, was the event that started the 100 Day massacre of the Tutsis by the Hutus, known as the Rwandan Genocide. The objective of this investigation is to find out the root of the cause of the Rwandan Genocide. The body of evidence will investigate the history of the conflict between the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups and the events leading up to the genocide. The evidence includes articles from different news sources, ranging from CNN to BBC, and world organizations. The investigation will cover the history of the two ethnic groups, the reason for their conflict, events leading to the genocide, and events during the genocide itself.
800,000, and most of those people were from of the Tutsi tribe. It began by the
In just one hundred days, almost one million people were murdered in the genocide rampage that swept through Rwanda, Africa in 1994. Hotel Rwanda, a film directed by Terry George in 2004, is a story based on the tragedy that occurred ten years prior. The massacre is a result of the Hutu tribe’s prejudice and discrimination of the Tutsi tribe and the world’s lack of intervention. George’s depiction of the event is less about the massacre itself though because of his choice to portray it from the view of Paul Rusesabagina, a Hutu hotel manager married to a Tutsi woman.
The murder President Habrayimana by the Tutsi’s rebels was the starting of the genocide. Before the murder, the President has agreed to make peace agreement with the Tutsi’s rebel’s forces. However, after the murder, The Hutu became more offended by the actions taken by the Tutsi. General George Rutaganda, the leader of Interahamwe militia makes an order to Hutu to kill all the Tutsi and to wipe out the Rwandan Patriotic Front rebels. After that, the situations get even worst as the anti-Tutsi militia of Interahamwe start the chaos by killing all the Tutsi civilians.
Paul Rusesabagina is a Hutu and his wife a Tutsi, when the vicious killings begin, Paul's Tutsi all look for his family to shelter them to safety in which Paul main focus is to protect his family. Hesitantly, Paul takes them in and begs a Rwandan army officer to let him bring them to the hotel. In total, the number
In the middle of Africa there lies a small country by the name of Rwanda. Rwanda is made up of three different ethnic groups: the Twa (a group of aboriginals who were the first to settle there), the Hutu, and the Tutsi. Starting in the mid 1990’s, Rwanda was thrown into a terrible genocide stemming from deep ethnic hatred between the Hutus and the Tutsi. This atrocity was not readily noticed or acted upon by the rest of the world at first, but would soon shock it with the horrors that took place.
In order to better explain why this deadly event took place, it is vital to understand the history of Rwanda and of the Hutu and Tutsi peoples. The Hutu and Tutsi people occupy what are now Rwanda and Burundi. The Hutu were the first of the two groups to settle in this region, and make up the majority. The Tutsi entered the area later, most likely in the 14th or 15th century CE. Though they made up a minority, they became the ruling class over the Hutu because of their access to cattle and greater knowledge of warfare.
Culture is the totality of learned, socially transmitted customs, knowledge, material objects, and behavior. It includes ideas, values, and artifacts of groups of people (Schaefer, 2006). Understanding culture can be tricky, ever ask “why do people act the way they do?”, “what made me do that”, “what was I thinking?” Physical abilities, educational background, and social background of how I was raised are important aspects of my life. The environment in which I was raised is very important aspect of my life.
Furthermore, in August 1993, General Habyarimana (a Hutu) signed an agreement at Arusha, Tanzania, that was about including the Rwandan Patriotic Front, which would mean that the government would have both Hutu and Tutsi representatives leading the country. This made the Hutu very angry as they felt that the Tutsi did not deserve to be in power and so they tried to prevent the RPF from joining the government. Then in 1994, General Juvenal Habyarimana was elected as the president of Rwanda, in the same year his plane was shot while flying above Kigali airport in Rwanda and there were no survivors. When the news about the presidents’ death were announced to the public, the Hutu suspected that his plane was shot by the Tutsi. Source 2 is proof of this hatred that the Hutu had against the Tutsi, because the eye witness speaks about o they came to attack her family because she