Multi Cultural Vote

There are some cultures that derive their sustenance, their clothes, and many other elements of their daily lives directly from the environment around them. Many of the tribes of the Amazon rainforest and other secluded parts of the globe have no contact with the outside world. They hunt for their meals and use every part of the animals they take so as not to have taken their lives just for food. They apply the same resourcefulness to plant life and any other resource they cultivate. This approach is based on a love and respect for their land and the planet itself. The Discovery Channel or the Travel Channel would have you believe these are the only peoples left who survive this way.

But when one gets right down to it, even the most advanced cultures still survive by similar methods. Every culture is dependent on the raw materials and natural products of the land they live on. The most industrialized cultures are still dependent on the most basic components of the elements chart. Without precious metals like aluminum, nickel, and tin, or other naturally occurring elements such as sodium, fluorine, and of course oxygen, even the most advanced society would come to a halt. The biggest difference between these cultures is the amount of waste they are willing to allow.

So even when we consider a huge metropolis with many factories and the mass manufacturing of non-natural goods versus an isolated tribe in the Amazon, both are completely dependent on the natural world around them. Despite what we see on television these days about the threat of meteors, black holes, and severe climate change, man’s biggest challenge may very likely be securing fresh drinking water. The President of the manufacturing plant will have the same challenge to survive as the adolescent boy in the Amazonian tribe. That’s how basic life can be. Multiculturalvote.com and its readers know this.

What the tribes of the Amazon and many other parts of the world share is a policy of non-waste. The hides of fallen animals are used for clothing. The teeth, claws, and bones of the animals are used for tools or defensive weapons. The sap from the trees is used for healing mixtures or decorative ink. The tree bark, leaves, and branches are used for baskets, the walls and roofs of domiciles, and firewood.

These traits are very similar in nature to the people commonly referred to as Native Americans in North America. The philosophy that all tribes share when living directly off of the land is to only use as much of a resource as is required to survive. No gluttony. No waste. The taking of an animal’s life is typically regretted.

When the buffalo of the North American plains began to disappear due to the new skinning trade introduced by another culture, Native American tribes began to starve. They had only hunted what was necessary to feed and sustain themselves. When a different culture didn’t adhere to this accepted law of the land, it in essence destroyed the population of the original culture.

It is for this reason why a global respect for one another, the cultures of other peoples, and the planet itself is so absolutely necessary. Without a basic, human respect for differing cultures, one society is capable of genocide; whether they realize it is occurring or not.

At multiculturalvote.com we can’t stress it enough to love the land. Work toward preserving the environment. And respect your fellow man.
It’s the human thing to do.