Samoan Rainbow
"Truth is merely common sense, say the naïve realist. Really? Then where, precisely, is the location of - a rainbow? In the air? In the eye? In between? Or somewhere else?" (Abbey, 11). To define the nature of culture it seems at first, to be a simple task. However, finding and holding the true essence of a culture is like pinpointing Abbey's rainbow. It becomes clear to me the misunderstandings between Margaret Mead and Derek Freeman, they were both trying to pinpoint a rainbow, but not necessarily the same rainbow. …
