XC: Babies

1. Did one culture, shown in the film, have a better way of parenting than the others?

No culture in this film showed that there is a better way of parenting than the other, since even though all the kids grew up differently they all still followed the same basic steps. Even though the children from Mongolia was raised in the wild unlike the child in Japan who was raised in a urban environment. All the children were brought into this world by their cultures rituals like hospitals or natural birth. The babies are than raised like a good child all innocent in the culture and is feed and nurtured by the parents culture and the surrounding people. The babies were interacting with society and as they grew up they experienced different things, some were formula feed and some were breast feed. Buy at the end the babies grew up to be one with their culture and society and learned how to stand and walk toward the same future.


2. How did each family prepare the child to take its "place" in their society? Did communication, cuddling, supervision, discipline line up to "mold" the kid for that society? Or do you think that a kid from one society would have been able to transfer successfully/easily at age 1 to one of the others?

Each family raised their child different, in Mongolia the children were raised with their siblings the most and was feed bathed by their mothers only, in the entire movie i didn't see a single adult male, and it was questionable of how modernized they were since they had tools from the modern world but still lived in the style as hunter gathers. the new babies often follow how their siblings behave but they also had to be guided by their parents. For example when the baby was drinking water he followed what his siblings did but when he was drinking milk from his mothers she had to constantly guided him back to drinking milk when he stopped sucking.

In grasslands of Namibia the baby was pretty much tied up all the time so she wouldn't wonder away, she was treated like a dog almost. She had a rope lease and also his feet were tied up on the bed alone. She was abused by her older brother but there was no real disciplined showed. She kind of followed what was given to her as she went alone living alone explore on her own. The parents were not really around her most of the time, but she still managed to grow up.

In Tokyo The baby was raised like a robot, sitting in its carriage and all the mothers that came together treated their children in the same way, they were no difference in the babies identities, like it was a factory. The baby was brought to a school where he was following along to what the parents were doing and the mother controlling the babies actions by moving the hands by her self. She was raised with many toys and even though she was curious she had a lot of constant care from her parents.

California the baby was pretty much left alone with the cat, she was trapped in a stroller and was restrained by it. The baby in the beginning had many wires put on him and it looked like an experiment in my eyes.

Each parent treated their child's in many way either leaving them at home or keeping constant supervision on them. There is no way showed that the children at the age on one should be treated since either way they will follow the same path. there are many good points and bad points about the way the babies were raised so it is hard to tell which baby was raised better and how.


3. What looked universal - common to all humans - from the film - at least as edited? Why is this universality significant?

All the humans in the film had a universal roll to nurture and to love the baby, they had to watch him/her grow and as time go on let them explore without restricting them too much. In each of the area's the babies had some freedom to explore but still had to follow rules their parents and siblings set up. This is significant since all the people believe that they should lead their children on the right path and have it grow to be a model member of their society.

4. Your own question.

I still wonder why the babies were treated so good in the movie since there was no real disciple in the movie just a bunch of restrictions the baby can do. They didn't show and abuse it was like all the babies were perfect in this world and that they don't need abuse till they reach a certain age.

I wonder how the babies will turn out in the future since even though the babies took the same path toward standing and being a member of their society they will walk different roads and come out differently. even though they all look like they will walk the same path it is unlikely that the babies will do so.