Hello geographers! Please remember you have a chapter three quiz on WEDNESDAY! After the quiz we will sum up final staple crop presentations and then look at what's ahead in chapter four. Here's for tonight as well:
Watch: http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=hNSYtaHIhR8
Discuss: what is unique about the people of the rice terraces? What is there to admire about this culture? Are we in a sense tainted by our experiences? Have we been somehow affected through our 1st world experiences that we could never live in a society such as this? Discuss.
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It is unique that the lives of the people of the rice terraces are focused on the rice. They have great parties where a lot of the stuff is rice (rice beer, rice cakes), build the rice terraces from scratch, which is a painfully hard process, and make sure that the terraces are watered everyday. I admire the dedication they have to maintaining these rice fields and also how these people use the rice as a staple crop (Mr. Philen!! I could have used this for the project!!). That is a hard question. I know some people like the Beverly Hills girls and people who complain too much like that wouldn't, but I think that our class could. Of course, our lives are completely different from these people. We could go to Score and get rice for 3000. But I am sure that people can adapt to different situations and live in them. My dad was a person from the US who had never been to Africa. But when he came to Senegal as a Peace Corps Volunteer in 1972, he had to eat foods from the village, like millet and poulet yassa, much different than what he had before. But he did, and grew accustomed to the new way of life. This proves my point. Oh yeah, FIRST POST
Jorge Che Toledo
In my opinion, the greatness of the Ifugao people falls upon their independence and humbleness. These modest people, who live to work in order to feed their families, are the proof of how dedication, faith and passion towards what they stand for, can move societies. We westerners have been influenced by American (as always) materialism and have grown incredibly. materialistic and superficial. I strongly don't think that any of us would be able to adapt to this situation and this type of life in part due to the lack of rewards we would be given. I hope one day we will take their example, leaving materialism and greed aside and concentrating on the true values of life: family, love and work.
for myself the real unique thing of this video is how hard work and focus the people put in the rice, and also the kind of things u can make with the rice, like rice beer.what i admire is how long these people have been keeping this terrace well in shape, and the way they take care of it. we are tainted by our expiriences as a first world country. our generation cant do anything without technology. this is a huge disadvantage to us, for me i think that no 1st world person can or will ever survive in a 3rd world country, we cant even standf a little heat outside, we must put on the AC and vice versa. this is very sad in an overall perspective.
There are a lot of things unique about the people of the rice terraces. For one they actually made those themselves over a long period of time. i found it very interesting about it that if you put the length of all the terraces end to end you could circle half of the clobe. I personaly think that we could live like them just for one simple reason. I beleive that we have the ability to adapt to changes in our society but i'm not denying that it would take a lot of hard work to be able to live liek them. They use a lot of their time and effort as a community to get water on those terraces and grow their rice there.
THe unique thing about this terrace rice farming is that it is the crop that the people of this part of the Phillipines depend on for everyday life. Its even part of their culture, the method is passed on to their children, and that is what there is to admire about this culture, they depend on the rice to survive. I also found some facts in the video really interesting. The one that said that if the terraces were put side by side, they would encircle halfway around the world, was the most interesting fact. I also didnt know that they are sometimes called the 8th wonder if the world and that they are a UNESCO World Haritege Site. Like leo said, our first world experiences would lead us to the store to get rice and all our food, we would have to go back to like the 1800's, when relied on ourselves to get food and survive.
I had never heard about these rice terraces before so i find it really interesting to learn about a new community. I admire the fact that these people do not depend on others for food and shelter. They work hard to get what they have and they don't need modern technology to aid them.
We are very much affected by the 1rst world. Like Jorge said, we have become very materialistic. People would much rather buy something that "looks good" rather than something that is useful. I think most of us maybe even all would not be able to live in a society like this one. We are already used to technology making things so much easier for us that it would almost be torture for most of us to live in such a society.
The people are unique because they have been able to preserve and work the rice terraces over such a long time (2000 years i think) and their lives rely so much on the crop. I admire this culture's ability to continue the maintenance of these huge terraces. We are tainted by our experiences because we are habituated to living comfortable lives where materials are easily obtained. We (including me of course I won't deny it :P) already complain about small things like hot temperatures and improperly working showers, so, although it isn't impossible of course, it would be very hard for us to adapt to this kind of hard-working society.
W0000000000t RICE FTW!!!!!
ftw= for the win.
Rice is awesome, imagine rice beer, maybe it actually tastes good, since beer tastes like horse urine (ask borat.)
anyways i am sorta forgetting the main questions but i found really unique and insipiring how much work they put into what they do. And how they protect it through tradition. I agree with jorge, it is afterall, the americans' fault. lol no jking, but just western society as a whole has been so influential in our upbringings, so much that i doubt any of us could go and live in such conditions, except me cause i love rice sooo much. <-- jking..but seriously....TOUCHé, i know you, u know u, and i know that u know that i know u. (dodgeball)
I think it would be cool tho if maybe without having to live in that society the western world would adapt some elements of it. like the least materialistic ones and more good ones. AWEEEEEEEEEe
I’ve never heard about rice terraces. It is always interesting to learn new things such as these people depending of rice. It is amazing that they ONLY eat rice terraces and are not using any technology.
We are totally tainted by our experiences because none of us I’ve been working by their own hands to get something. It is the way we are raised. We all have an extremely comfortable life. It would be a VERY big challenge to live in a society such as theirs. We all need electricity, internet, and phones. I could even say that it would be impossible for some of us, including MYSELF.
People often say, 'Life's Hard (or tough or unfair)'. well they obviously have no idea bout all the other people in the world that have to work their *@^ off trying to live! Its in their culture and tradition and thats just the way they live, i dont feel THAT sorry for them because nearly every society had to work hard like that once. www.freerice.com (i think) takes u to a website with which u can to vocab tests, for evey word you get right u can earn rice for the poor in Africa.
oh and btw. in malaysia, Brunei, Vietnam and thailand they have tons of these terraces, the heavy rainfall and mountainous regions often cause them to flood and sometimes acres of terraces are destroyed by mudslides (because they clear the forrests growing on the hils to make the terraces, the roots were supposed to keep the soil together and lots of water causes the soil to let loose and spill).
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