Nomadic Maasai warrior-Kenya and Tanzania
‘To be a Maasai is to be born into one of the world’s last great warriors culture’(The Maasai tribe 2015)and the last one of the powerful tribe in the word belongs to Maasai. In addition to say that the Maasai people live in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania and it can be provided that the Maasai’s ancestors originated in North Africa. (Maasai association n.d.). Maasai people believe that the God designed cattle especially for them to used and Maasai ’people believes that they have responsibility to connect itself within the natural environment. Although the culture of the Massai in Africa is influenced by the environment, the modern civilization and education are also influential in shaping their
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People living in Maasai are surrounded by national park and wildlife. In the past few years the only way can gather the survival resource were by themselves. Using the tool to cut the timber and mixing the water and loess to build their cattle. Initially, people in maasai were hunt the animal to eat then they know how to feed the livestock without hunt. ‘The Maasai have traditionally relied on local’ ( People of Kenya 2009).They feed the livestock and grow the crop. However, the dry season which make a terrible consequence that people doesn’t have enough water to survival and there is no reason that people can feed their stock in this strict situation. Therefore, the most powerful people in Maasai ‘gather’(Maasia Association n.d.) most of member to overcome this problem and this promotion let every in this group to work together and share the ideas. Therefore, the environment effect the culture which promote the unity they …show more content…
Accompany with the technology development people who comes from the western country know what is happened in Maasai. Like ‘Customs activities and rituals such as female circumcision and cattle raiding have been outlawed by modern legislation’(The Maasai tribe 2015) and some associations which comes from the western countries would infliction pressure to the local government and this situation may leads some traditional culture in Maasai can be no longer exited. For example, Maasai people like hunting and they treat to hunt a dangerous animal like lion is a warrior honor. However, the wild life association announced that this is illegal action because the amount of the wide animal like tiger and lion dropped dramatically so this association negotiate with local government. Therefore, the local government can no longer affords the outside pressure so People live in Maasa are got permission to kill only one lion per year and this lion only will be used for ceremony .(Maasai people 2016).In addition to say that the modern civilization also belongs one part to affects the Maasai’s culture and this reason contribute some origin traditional culture to vanish in this
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