Cultures around the world constantly label other cultures as "weird" or odd; they judge the unknown culture based on the culture that they know and that they experience on a personal level. This method of judging another culture without dropping a personal bias for one's own culture being the better culture is called ethnocentrism (Haviland, Prins, Walrath, and McBride, 4). Cross culturally, societies are diverse in numerous ways. Religious beliefs, gender roles, technology, clothing, looks, and medical views vary throughout the cultures of the world. The medical views of cultures weigh in largely with the importance of a particular culture's beliefs and lifestyles. Ethno medicine is a large part of anthropology and is the study of different culture's ill related behaviors and their medicinal cures or remedies (Quinlan, 4). People's daily lives and everyday practices also vary among cultures. The people of Dominica, of America, and the Massai have diverse cultural beliefs, values, and lifestyles in which they encounter and familiarize themselves with on a daily basis; they are reasonably different cultures with similar cross cultural influences.
             On a small island of the Caribbean, there is Dominica. Dominica is a pluralistic society with a pluralistic healthcare system. A pluralistic society is "a society in which two or more ethnic groups or nationalities are politically organized into one territorial state but maintain their cultural differences" (Haviland, Prins, Walrath, and McBride, 345). Dominica is occupied by people of Native American, African, and European ancestry (Quinlan, 9). Dominica is a pluralistic society due to the fact that it is occupied by these people with the different ancestry and different cultural beliefs, which have merged with time. They are located in a geographic area that is steep, slippery, and lush full of hills and cliffs (Quinlan, 23). The People of Dominica...