The pygmies

The Bambuti pygmies were some little black men who lived their entire life in a mountain with many trees. The sight in their tribe was very short! They could not see more than seven feet away from them. They had lived since many years there. They were not used to what we would call normal people. An investigator called Collin Turnbull went to investigate this tribe. He was amazed with the discoveries he made. He was a lot of time with the men of this tribe to try to understand them. One day he took one of the men that belong to this tribe to the outer world. The man that Turnbull took outside of their tribe was disliked with the fact that the place that they were now did not have trees. During the entire trip the man was disliked with this, after a few moments Turnbull watched some bulls far away. The man said that those were bugs, but Turnbull showed him that those were real bulls. At first the Bambuti pygmy thought that this was witchcraft. After a few moments of the incident Turnbull told this poor man that perspective exists and that when things are very far away they will look very small, but once you get closer to the object you will see the real size of the object. He discovered something important for perception because they perceived in a way their world because they are taught to perceive the way they perceived. This means that we perceive everything because of the way that we have been taught.