How different is your modern culture from the sawi tenants?

Our modern culture is not that different from the culture of the Sawi tenants if you look at it from a certain point of view. The Sawi lifestyle is based on hunting and gathering. If a Sawi person is good at hunting, they will be considered high-class. They have certain objects(bones of animals, enemies) that show their status in society. The goal for a Sawi tenant is to be the best possible hunter; being a good hunter means that you can provide food for your family, and you can fight for the tribe if there is a conflict with another tribe.

In our modern culture, education is becoming more valued as each year goes by. As a teenager going to high school, it seems that the goal of most students are to get good grades and go to a good college. Why? Knowledge is very important in the modern world. Getting good grades means going to a good college; going to a good college means getting a good job, which means getting a lot of money. In the modern world, a person's "class" is classified by how much money they have. Just as the Sawi have bones to show their status, we have clothes, cars, and jewelry to show ours.

The Sawi also value treachery and violence but it's not like there's no violence in the modern world. Murder and robbery are everyday things, and modern technology like guns make it easier for those things to happen. Just as there was hatred amongst various tribes, many countries hate each other for no good reason. What I'm saying is that even if our worlds seem very different, there are many similarities.