What intrigued me about the essay was the similarities that I have managed to construct during my reading. I’ve learned that The Nacirema has put strong importance on having good oral hygiene and moral characteristics as a symbol of a good relationship with friends, family, or lover and without it according to (page 10, lines 6-9), “Were it not for the rituals of the mouth, they believe that their teeth would fall out, their gums bleed, their jaws shrink, their friends desert them, and their lovers reject them. They also believe that a strong relationship exists between oral and moral characteristics”. To prevent this from happening they would seek for a holy-mouth man and he would use a variety of tools such as augers, awls, probes, and prods as objects in their ritual to cast out evil “spirits” out of their mouth by digging holes in their mouth leaving the patient excruciating pain. Even with the experience the patients never stop visiting. What disturbed me about The Nacirema body ritual is the latipso ceremony. Described as a ceremony to treat very sick patients it is not a ceremony that natives say is pleasant. According to (Page 11, lines 3-6), “The latipso ceremonies are so harsh that it is phenomenal that a fair proportion of the sick natives who enter the temple ever recover. Small children whose indoctrination is still incomplete have been known to resist attempts to take them to the temple because “that is where you go to die.” Even if you are severally ill and need urgent care “ many temples will not admit a client if he cannot give a rich gift to the custodian”. Which to me seems inhumane. What Shocked me was, how the females described their naked bodies as a distraction or negative influence on the medicine men while performing The latipso ceremony. According to (page 11, lines 22-24), “Female clients, on the other hand, find their naked bodies are subjected to the scrutiny, manipulation, and prodding of the medicine men”. I would have thought a women’s natural unclothed body would be normalized and accepted, but it’s seen as a negative image. These rituals and ceremonies have harmed many people, such as force-feeding substances that will “heal” them but will only cause harm to their internal organs or even death. “Mothers are particularly suspected of putting a curse on children while teaching them the secret body rituals”. Though looking from an outside perspective I can have my critical opinion towards a culture that I am unfamiliar with. I have to accept that many people won’t see or have the same reaction to my culture/tradition as I do to theirs.