PEOPLE ARE TAUGHT TO BE DIFFERENT (12 films)

Duration: 30 min

Year Published: 1956

Creator: KUHT

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: Sound

Description: Employs dance routines and originally scored music to demonstrate cultural differences of various peoples. 1. GROUP CONCEPTS OF HUMAN BIRTH. Compares the reactions of Americans, the Manus of the Admiralty Islands, and the Kiriwina of the Trobriand Islands when exposed to the crisis of human birth. 2. CULTURAL PATTERNS OF INFANT REGULATION. Shows cultural differences in giving early training to human infants. Compares families of southern urban Negroes, the Manus of the Admiralty Islands, and the Hopi Indians of northern Arizona. 3. GROUP WAYS OF CHANNELIZING AGGRESSION. Portrays methods of directing aggression in children. Compares Americans, the Kwoma of New Guinea, and the Aldrese of the Dutch East Indies. 4. GROUP TRAINING IN BASIC SKILLS. Discusses cultural differences in training children for group participation. Emphasizes motivating interests, specific skills taught, and the finished product that emerges from the experiences. 5. WHEN BOYS ENCOUNTER PUBERTY. Presents male adolescent rituals as a means of passing from boys to manhood. Stresses differences in methods of promotion and resulting personality types. 6. WHEN GIRLS ENCOUNTER PUBERTY. Presents female adolescent rituals as a means of passing girls to womanhood. Emphasizes the differences in physiological signs of female readiness for womanhood. 7. GROUP PATTERNS OF COURTSHIP BEHAVIOR. Discusses differences in personal contact between males and females as sanctioned by three societies. Stresses differences in opportunity for courtship, the patterns of association that emerge, and how these experiences relate to marriage. 8. CULTURAL PATTERNS OF MARITAL SANCTION. Portrays differences in marriage rituals of three societies. Discusses the basic motive behind the selection of marriage partners, the rituals, and the values that guide their relationships. 9. IMPACT OF PERSONALITIES. Discusses the formation of human personality in three societies. Demonstrates the authoritarian, cooperative and dwarfed personality types. Points out how personality types perpetuate themselves. 10. VIEWING THE SUPERNATURAL. Portrays cultural differences in solving problems through religion. Emphasizes religious motivations, leadership, rituals, and supernatural controls. Stresses the differences in the meaning of religion. 11. DOCTORS ALL. Presents reactions to human illness. Emphasizes treatment, detection, and acceptance of treatment methods of illness. 12. GROUP CONCEPTS OF HUMAN DEATH. Portrays cultural differences in adjustment to human death. Stresses interpretation of life as it relates to death, rituals used to pass the deceased to the region of the dead, and the type of afterlife the deceased experiences.

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Metadata Source:Educational film guide. Supplements (1959-62)