[donna]

Someone should talk to those daycare providers.

[OCCASparky]

‘How am I supposed to eat?’

Not so long ago, disrespecting my parents like that would have gotten me put THROUGH a wall.

[Irenic]

“Izquierdo and Ochs shared an interest in many ethnographic issues, including child rearing. How did parents in different cultures train young people to assume adult responsibilities?”

Well, I am guessing that 6-year-old Yanira’s parents don’t sit around indulging themselves with observing other people work for their sustenance. I’m sure that they didn’t attend any pomp schools. They work, live, love and survive in their environment.

We do the same thing here—work, live, love, survive—just differently because we aren’t third world/primitive. The anthropologists just may get a chance to observe working children here in the good old USA, if things don’t turn around.

I am sure that many children(not all) would pick up the ax, shovel or whatever is necessary to survive. Though I think these sit on their butt observing anthropologist would get a swift kick in the butt, told to work and not be indulged as they are by the Peruvian tribe.

Kids here once worked very hard, there are child labor laws. Heck, now they want to stop children from working the family farm. Kids can’t be spanked—what is there for children to see as a result of doing nothing? Nothing.

If those Peruvians lived in the United States, they would be put in jail for how they raise their children...or at least have them taken away.

[Free Vulcan]

Do you think that using kids from Lost Angeles is really a good example? Kids in Iowa generally don’t act like this unless they’re from seriously messed up families.

[Talisker]

Kolbert describes an anthropologist’s encounter with 6-year-old Yanira, part of a remote Peruvian tribe. On a leaf-gathering expedition with another family, Yanira constantly makes herself useful—she sweeps the sleeping mats twice a day; she fishes for crustaceans, cooks them up and serves them to the others. “Calm and self-possessed, Yanira ‘asked for nothing,’ ” Kolbert writes of the anthropologist’s impressions.

Yanitra's parents, on the other hand, collect extra crustaceans to pay for the Peruvian crustacian and leaf collecting income tax. And when she is done sweeping, Yanitra studies crustacean anatomy and physiology to pass her shaman crunchy-stuff test so she can pass on to be an accredited crustaceean collector for the tribe, and then help her parents calculate the percentage of leaf that has to be added to the crustacean collection each year to pay the Peruvian government.

No?

Well gee, then, I GUESS IT'S A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CULTURE, JACKASSES!

[diamond6]

Does anyone know what a “totebagger” is? I was reading the comments of this article and there are so many references to this term, I’ve never heard it before.