Cultural Maneouvres- crouching, head-basket balancing..

[shootingstar]

Maybe in another life growing up in another country, I could have been one of those women, carrying baskets of food or my laundry on top of head..and walking along for a couple of kms. But it pains me abit just to look at those sheer loads that some of these women carry on their heads.

I've always wondered...some physical body movements...are culturally based ..movements we learned from babyhood onward in those countries. We most likely could do some of those physical movements if starting from a young age and if we saw everyone else around us doing the same movement/position.

I know for myself...there have been odd occasions where I've gotten bored and tired of standing at a bus stop. So, I crouch down, bend my knees and sit on my haunches, my bum not touching the ground, ..you know like what you see some people in Africa or Asia do, when they are vendors at a local market. It's actually comfortable. It's imitating my mother..who did do that position until she was into her 40's.

It maybe easier for me to do 'cause I'm short and small.. But in the end, maybe it's what we are taught and imitate movements of adults around us from babyhood.