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CHAPTER Celebrating UP AND AWARE - 7

Diversity—People

(Critical Thinking)

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‘We are all the same and we are all different. What great friends we will be.’

—from The Tiny Caterpillar and the Great Big Tree by Kelly Moran

Beginning:

Let us read some facts about the continent of Africa:

• The population of Africa is unbelievably diverse. It is made up of a
number of tribes and people belonging to many social and ethnic

groups. There are approximately 3,000 tribes/groups in Africa and
about 2100 languages are spoken in this continent.

• The people of Africa have more physical variations than that of any
other continent.

• The pygmies, shortest humans in the world, live in Africa. The average
man is 1.45 m (4.34 feet) and the average woman is usually

1.33 m (4 feet) tall.

• On the other hand, some Sudanese and Maasai tribes are among the
tallest people in the world.

• The people of the Wodaabe tribe do not name their children until they
reach the age of twelve years.

Maasai women A traveller in a pygmy village

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