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Reading through the book it says the four most important features of Andean worldview are collectivity, reciprocity, transformation, and essence. The Andean worldview was very different than modern views on social structure. The way the build their society is amazing and very interesting. They really value the way they live. They believed in helping anyone, if they were better than them or not. I wish our world was more like that today. Collectivity is the idea that the whole is more important than its individual parts. Transformation is the idea that existence is constantly changing cyclically. Life leads to death which leads to life, the world is constantly revolving.The concept of essence is the belief of focusing on the process of gaining a result, instead of the actual result achieved from this process. If more of us thought like this today I believe that society would be so much different. Maybe even war free.

masks

all of the masks we got to see in the powerpoint were remarkable, especially how each had its own specific details and meanings in my opinion. but it really made me start to think about the masks that we "wear" today. when i think of a mask i think of hiding ones self, being secretive or even deceptive. i believe this to be true. while we do not have many occasions where we actually put a mask over our face, there are many times when we put on an invisible mask to fool those around us. 
for example, many women mask their faces everyday from those around them with make up. it has been ingrained in our minds that we must look beautiful and have perfect skin, eyes, lips, and make up helps us to achieve those goals. this "mask" may not change how we act but sometimes helps our confidence. on the other hand however, we sometimes do mask our actions and/or feelings from others from seeing how we may really be feeling. this sometimes can be a good thing, for example putting on a mask of happiness at work when you are having a bad day can help you make it through your day. this masking of feeling can be dangerous as well, because deceiving someone with a false feeing can cause problems with relationships and within your own life.