Topic > The Afar Culture - 798

There are more than 6.5 billion people in the world. You don't know how many cultures there are in all those people. This is because some cultures are not distinct enough to be seen as different cultures by outsiders. Furthermore, so many people travel and move away from their original culture, that it is difficult to tell who is part of a culture and who is not. Cultures have similarities and differences. Many cultures cannot communicate with other cultures because they speak different languages. Linguists, who are those who study natural language, estimate that there are 5,000-6,000 languages ​​spoken among the world's people. The earliest evidence of the existing Afar culture dates back to the 13th century. The Afar culture is ferocious and warlike, they survive thanks to nomadic herding and have two social classes that are not so distinguishable. The Afar culture is considered fierce and warlike, descended from the Arabs and comes from an area of ​​Djibouti and north-eastern Ethiopia. The Afar are considered ferocious and warlike. This is because there is a long history of hostility between the Afar and the groups surrounding them. The surrounding groups are from Ethiopia. The Afar claim to be descended from Arabs. The other name of the Afar is “Danakil”, which we hear about in the writings of an Arab. The name comes from the Ankala tribe. They occupy a 143,000 square kilometer area of ​​Djibouti and northeastern Ethiopia, sometimes called the Afar Triangle. The eastern point of the triangle is located at the intersection of the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. The land on which the Afar live is very arid, a stone and sand desert with salt lakes and lava streams. The culture is hostile, of Arab descent, of nomadic and paper pastoralism, eating domestic and wild meat, dairy products and some agricultural products stolen during trade. Men are assigned leadership roles, and women are assigned tasks of finding wood and water, building nomadic huts, and weaving mats. A man and a woman can marry when the girl has reached the age of ten and the boy has killed someone in battle. After a couple marries, they may choose to live near or with the wife's parents or the husband's parents. The Afar have two classes, which today are not so distinguishable from each other. Tribes have disputes over the deaths of their members and resolve these disputes with blood repayment. Although they have a national government, they have independence because they are under state control. Every culture functions as a society differently and lives differently.