The Great Journey

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[ A Dispute with the Indigenous People: Are the Japanese Stingy? ]

The preparation for Reahu(feast) to welcome guests started in the village of the Yanomami, and the men left for hunting. They are so patient that they will not come back for a couple of days until they have enough game. It is considered a shame if they cannot provide enough meat for the Reajo. A few days later, hunters came back with middle sized animals like armadillo and paca. A paca is a kind of mouse that eats the crops in the field. So they catch them by hiding in ambush. It seemed they had not had enough game to be satisfied. The hunters directly headed for their family and slipped into their hammock. silently.
The Yanomami do not save their food. They keep on eating what they've got until they run out of it. It is customary that we have disputes over food whenever we travel with them. When they find food for the next few days in our rucksacks, they complain saying "Why don't you open more canned food?" and "Why don't you cook more rice?" They will not understand even when we explain to them, "This is for tomorrow and the days to come after that." Stinginess is the evil they despise most. So the argument continued, "Give us more food" and back to "We can't give you more food." On the other hand, when they are hired as porters, they do not demand wages for the time spent at the destination. No matter how many days they had to stay at the destination, they just requested money for the days spent to go there and come back. It seems they don't have any notion of "Time is money."