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1) The great idea is not what i had expected. I thought he wanted to learn more about the culture than what his friend had to tell him. All his friend talked about was the watch and other things that didnt interest him.



2) The great idea is to adopt a little white kid to show them how simple and himble their lifestyle is. They are trying to "rescue" a white child from what they are taught in their native land.



3) Sodas father does not want his daughter to go to school because he fears she will not do what is expected of her. He thinks women are supposed to stay home and clean and cook and pick rice. Soda wants to go to school because she wants to be smart unlike her mother and all the other kids go to school. Sodas mom wants her to go to school so she can be smarter than her and not get ripped off like she did, and to know whats going on.



4) If they adopt Tubab ways they will not live so simple and low tech anymore. They like life the way it is and are adopting kids to bring to their society rather than taking technology from tubab's.



5) That technology and things like that arent needed to live happy and humble and to learn and have a good life.



6) A nation is known by how smart the people are. In the film, it shows that people can learn and become intelligent in a land like theirs where there is no technology or anything. It is not needed for them to get an education.



7) I think this is different from my education because these kids want to go to school and every day we, american kids, resent it. we hate to go to school and beg our parents to let us stay home a day but those kids beg their parents to please let them go.