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The Common Sense<\/p>\n
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The Other Chisnell<\/p>\n
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24 July 2018<\/p>\n
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We came down out of the Usambara mountains 2 days ago, leaving behind the pastoral, idyllic life many of us had become so enamored with, and the one that had raised so many questions about our own. Of course, we, well, okay \u201cI\u201d told myself that I was seeing all this clearly and not romanticizing the mountain villages. But of course I was. For a first-time traveler to the \u201cdeveloping world,\u201d I\u2019ve struggled not to impose my own values around the definition of the quality of life, but to listen–carefully–and to learn the lessons perhaps I haven\u2019t even considered. But\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Post Pt 2″ _builder_version=”3.10.1″ text_font=”PT Serif||||” text_text_color=”#363636″ text_font_size=”20″ text_font_size_last_edited=”on|tablet” text_line_height=”1.4em” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” max_width=”620px” custom_margin=”60px||0px|” custom_margin_tablet=”40px||0px|” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|tablet” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n \u2026 But there are the pathways and stairs dug out of the red clay connecting one home to another, or to the road and the many rustic wooden kiosks to sell whatever one may, or perhaps to simply gather. \u00a0There is the funeral procession along the main road, where every male in the village has come – some in their traditional hats and a jacket, some in University of Michigan sweatshirts and Chuck Taylors. There are the women layering various cloths of vibrant patterns for skirts and wraps against the misty chill. There are the farmers digging in the fields while the children run and laugh, and goats wander up and down the hillside. We meet the tea grower, balancing his crop atop his head, who stops to chat with our guide and me. \u00a0He is dressed in sport coat for the morning rain, a button down shirt, pinstriped pants tucked into rain boots, and some sort of ascot worn and frayed, but still useful, He proudly tells us he has planted 5 hectares this morning. As our guide translates, my eyes grow wide and I turn to look him. He smiles back with a shrug, and warmly welcomes us to the Usambara. <\/span><\/p>\n So many paths through this tropical forest, and a story along each one. \u00a0Then you realize that the path is part of a network of paths, and the village a part of a network of villages, and all these stories combine to form a people and culture. How does one not idealize it? <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.0.74″ background_color=”#f7f7f4″ custom_padding=”0px||0px|” custom_padding_tablet=”0px||0px|” transparent_background=”off” padding_mobile=”on” prev_background_color=”#e0dbd5″ next_background_color=”#e0dbd5″][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=”on” custom_width_px=”680px” use_custom_gutter=”on” gutter_width=”1″ custom_padding=”0px||0px|” padding_mobile=”on” make_equal=”on” column_padding_mobile=”on” background_color_2=”#efefe9″ parallax_method_1=”off” parallax_method_2=”off” _builder_version=”3.7″ background_color=”#aa7d00″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/07\/Untitled-1-of-1-2.jpg” show_bottom_space=”off” _builder_version=”3.10.2″ border_width_right=”1px” border_color_right=”#aa7d00″ border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_bottom=”#aa7d00″ box_shadow_style=”preset2″ box_shadow_horizontal=”-5px” box_shadow_vertical=”3px” box_shadow_blur=”22px” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” animation=”off” sticky=”on”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/07\/Untitled-5-of-5-1.jpg” show_bottom_space=”off” _builder_version=”3.10.2″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” animation=”off” sticky=”on”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text disabled_on=”off|off|” _builder_version=”3.10.1″ text_font=”PT Serif||||” text_text_color=”#594100″ text_font_size=”24″ text_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” text_line_height=”1.4em” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” text_orientation=”center” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”20%|10%||10%” custom_margin_tablet=”|10%||10%” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|desktop” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n \u201cWe mourn what is lost or perhaps never known in our own society, and wonder if our life of comfort and convenience have driven us to be disconnected and without community.<\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.10.1″ background_color=”#e0dbd5″ transparent_background=”off” prev_background_color=”#f7f7f4″ next_background_color=”#000000″][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” use_custom_width=”on” custom_width_px=”680px” use_custom_gutter=”on” gutter_width=”4″ custom_padding=”20px|||” custom_padding_tablet=”0px|||” column_padding_mobile=”on” custom_padding_last_edited=”on|tablet” parallax_method_1=”off” parallax_method_2=”off” parallax_method_3=”off” parallax_method_4=”off” _builder_version=”3.10.1″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/07\/rps20180710_180455.jpg” force_fullwidth=”on” disabled_on=”on|on|” _builder_version=”3.10.2″ border_color_all=”#826300″ border_style_all=”groove” border_width_right=”5px” border_width_bottom=”5px” box_shadow_style=”preset2″ box_shadow_horizontal=”4px” box_shadow_vertical=”4px” box_shadow_blur=”11px” custom_margin=”-90px|||” custom_margin_tablet=”0px|||” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|desktop” animation_style=”slide” animation_direction=”left” animation_duration=”500ms” animation_intensity_slide=”10%” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” animation=”left” sticky=”off”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Post Pt 2″ _builder_version=”3.10.1″ text_font=”PT Serif||||” text_text_color=”#363636″ text_font_size=”20″ text_font_size_last_edited=”on|tablet” text_line_height=”1.4em” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” max_width=”620px” custom_margin=”60px||0px|” custom_margin_tablet=”10px||0px|” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|tablet” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n Perhaps because they do not. I\u2019ve been so struck by the practicality and resourcefulness of the people. Items are used, reused, repurposed, and repurposed again. Need a mud flap? Lash a piece of cardboard behind the front tire of your motorbike. That crate the Pepsi was shipped in? \u00a0Put a goat in it and tie it the back of your bike to deliver him to the next village. A machete has no end of uses from cutting a path through the vegetation, grabbing an avocado from the ground and slicing it open, or stripping sugar cane to get at the sweet fibers. A universal tool. Why had I never considered this? How would the people in Ann Arbor, Michigan feel if I started carrying a machete around?<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ specialty=”off” prev_background_color=”#000000″ next_background_color=”#ffffff” _builder_version=”3.10.1″ background_color=”#e0dbd5″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Post Pt 2″ _builder_version=”3.10.1″ text_font=”PT Serif||||” text_text_color=”#363636″ text_font_size=”20″ text_font_size_last_edited=”on|tablet” text_line_height=”1.4em” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” max_width=”620px” custom_margin_tablet=”||0px|” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|desktop” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” module_alignment=”center”]<\/p>\n All of this is just common sense. It\u2019s what is needed, so it is what is done. How dare I find it charming, enviable. I rationalize my feelings by arguing to myself, it\u2019s the warmth of the people I envy. Incredibly friendly, curious, and when they speak to you, they look you DIRECTLY in the eye. You cannot look away, and again you feel that connectedness to everyone around you. And the children. Oh my, the children. So joyful and wondering. Again and again, we pass, and there they are smiling and waving from behind a home, down a narrow path, or atop a hill. \u201cMambo!\u201d \u201cPoa!\u201d \u201cHiyeeeee\u201d \u00a0\u201cHow are yooooouuuu?!\u201d And delighted every time with any response we give. On several occasions they have followed us as we go, and we find we have collected dozens of them like REI-clad Pied Pipers. <\/span><\/p>\n In a few discussions among the group, we have wondered aloud if modernity will corrupt this culture, or how it will. \u00a0Some members of the group have used words like \u201cpure.\u201d We mourn what is lost or perhaps never known in our own society, and wonder if our life of comfort and convenience have driven us to be disconnected and without community. \u00a0Is there a tipping point in \u201cmodernity\u201d and the use technology where a community goes from a society like we see here to shallow, success-driven individualism? What would it be? Sanitation? Education? Cell phones? Television? How does a society decide how much is enough? 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We fear for the loss of this lifestyle, \u00a0but impose these values on them because of what we desire, what we feel we have lost. I don\u2019t think they would see it this way. This is already a society in transition. They are leapfrogging technologies – electricity through solar panels, communication with cell phones, bypassing landlines altogether. How much more will change in 20 years? Why do we assume the culture \u201ccan\u2019t handle it,\u201d and will \u201cbe like us?\u201d What is it that they value? \u00a0It isn\u2019t the inherent corruptibility of <\/span>technology<\/span><\/i> that destroys a people, but its value system, what the community decides is important. (Ask me again next week about this, I may change my mind.) \u00a0The danger is not the exportation of our modern conveniences, but the imposition and exportation of our values. How strange that the Tanzanians who leave the villages often want to emulate the West – eat fast food, and live in bigger homes. And here Westerners want to emulate the Tanzanian villagers- live more simply and know your neighbors. <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_divider show_divider=”off” height=”60″ _builder_version=”3.2″ hide_on_mobile=”off”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_divider show_divider=”off” height=”70″ disabled_on=”on|on|off” _builder_version=”3.2″ hide_on_mobile=”on”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/07\/Untitled-1-of-5-1.jpg” show_bottom_space=”off” align=”center” _builder_version=”3.10.2″ animation_style=”fade” animation_duration=”500ms” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” animation=”fade_in” sticky=”on”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Caption” disabled_on=”off|off|” _builder_version=”3.10.1″ text_font=”PT Serif||||” text_text_color=”#594100″ text_font_size=”24″ text_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” text_line_height=”1.4em” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” text_orientation=”center” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”20px|||” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|desktop” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n \u201cI will never again use the term ‘developing world,’ and wonder how that even got started.<\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider show_divider=”off” height=”70″ disabled_on=”on|on|on” _builder_version=”3.2″ hide_on_mobile=”on” disabled=”on”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/06\/092.jpg” show_bottom_space=”off” align=”center” disabled_on=”on|on|on” _builder_version=”3.7″ animation_style=”fade” animation_duration=”500ms” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” animation=”fade_in” sticky=”on” disabled=”on”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ specialty=”off” prev_background_color=”#000000″ next_background_color=”#89680c” _builder_version=”3.10.1″ background_color=”#e0dbd5″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.10.1″ make_fullwidth=”on”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Post Pt 3″ _builder_version=”3.10.1″ text_font=”PT Serif||||” text_text_color=”#363636″ text_font_size=”20″ text_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” text_line_height=”1.4em” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” max_width=”640px” custom_margin_tablet=”||0px|” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|desktop” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” module_alignment=”center”]<\/p>\n So we came down from the mountains. 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