What concepts in the Sawi culture intrigued / reviled / saddened / angered / surprised you?

      While studying the Sawi culture, my two initial emotions were anger and being surprised.  Even though I respect the Saw culture deeply, I must question their practice of cannibalistic ways.  There were many emotions that made me ponder the meaning of culture, and what it might mean to those people living it.   I have realized throughout my life experiences that no culture is perfect.  Every culture has their flaws that questions the very essence of our morality.
    This cannibalistic ways that the Sawi culture lived was not right.  Moreover, the way the Sawi's would obtain human meat angered me.  What they would do is befriend somebody from another tribe, and finally strike him dead.  This idea of "fattening for friendship" seem such a cruel idea to me.  How can one kill another person that has befriended them in the first place?  Let alone eat the person....  I wouldn't be able to such a thing.  That would be like me befriending a classmate, and murdering this classmate in the end of the year.  I don't blame Don Richardson for losing hope, and doubting God.  After all, he was dealing with a culture that admire such treachery.  When Don explained the story of Jesus, the Sawi people rejoiced when they find out that Judas betrayed Jesus.  They glorified Judas, and not Jesus.  I was angered with this treachery that was part of this culture.
     Although I respect the Sawi culture, I was angered with the fact that they invited such treachery in their culture.  However, I was surprised with the way the Sawi culture dealt with war.  When war didn't go their way, the Sawi tribe would use the Peace Child to have peace.  The tribe would send the first born child to the other tribe, and as long as the baby lives, there would be peace.  This analogy came to be that Jesus Christ was the Peace Child, and that he lives forever.  I was surprised at how Don Richardson related this to the Peace Child the Sawi culture used, and how the tribe willingly accepted this new belief.  They must have had tremendous faith.
     As we deal with the fact the evolving culture in the present day we live in, I believe that it is important for us to think about the culture we live in.  What part of your culture angers you?  What part of your culture surprises you?  Ayn Rand once said, "A culture is made - or destroyed --by its articulate voices."  When we see our culture emerging in treachery, we need to voice for change and take action.   After all, Don Richardson surprised me by representing God's voice for a cultural that was in turmoil.