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Anthropology report Progress “undermines African culture” PART1 I read an article on how tourist and Christians are changing the African culture. According to Mr Opondo, tourism is effecting huge changes in the lives of people in the Kigezi highlands. He said, "The tourists who come to enjoy the mountains trigger change among the inhabitants, leading to assimilation of cultures and the diffusion of new lifestyles. The prevailing attitude of using Western culture as the mirror of what is good has modified cultural norms. They copy European accents, hairstyles and dress. The perception is that Western culture is superior and dominant." According to this article, the Africans are being exposed to new technologies and the Western culture, as never before by tourists and Christians who try to convert the Africans. Although this is not all bad, this may lead to the disruption of African culture. The traditional ways of African culture that were perceived to them as righteously superior are now being undermined by the new culture that the westerners are bringing into Africa. In Ethiopia, a farmer anthropology, culture, article, african, africa, new, because, western, disrupt, cultural, christians, africans, westerners, try, tourists, technologies, superior, relates, related, process, polygamy, lives, being, assimilation, anthropologists, wife, ways, videos, using, undermines, undermined, trigger, traditional, tradition, tourist, tourism, told, through, states, society, second, saw, said, righteously, rid, religion, recently, read, progress, problems