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Perspectives on Society and Culture         It is very difficult as a reader to make any sense of the rituals performed by the Nacirema. The Nacirema are a people who stress the importance of physical wellness and go to great and to the outsider horrific lengths to ensure this.         A professor Linton was the first to shed light on the particularly bizarre lifestyle that is lived by the Nacirema. Physical wellness being so heavily stressed is …

…in there minds cleanse the unholy body. Although it may turn your stomach as well as mine, I believe we should be cultural relativist, step back and respect such deep faith and belief. I also believe there is a lesson to be learned here. For if our society as a whole upheld and blindly excepted the teachings of our respected religions, we would live in a safer and better educated society than we do today.