The transition from an urban environment to a rural one has made me realize that the lifestyles of the people in comparison to each area are quite different. The main difference that is visible to me is the speed at which people function in their everyday lives. In the urban environment people walked, talked, and ate fast. In comparison, the rural environment portrayed people as taking things slowly and less hurriedly. I can make the judgment that the rural people are slow minded due to their lack of a fast paced lifestyle, but that would be ignorant. I could also say that people of an urban environment do not enjoy life and are always too busy to live it. My judgment on the two societies is strictly biased because I feel that the original lifestyle from which I was brought up in is the correct way of living. In Hariot's report on Virginia he also makes negative assumptions of the Algonquin people, because of the vast diversity that existed between his society and the foreign ones of which he was researching. He displays the Algonquin people as being less of a society as compared to his own based on his observations of their material goods, their religion, and finally their irrational thinking.
In his report he describes the material goods in which the Algonquin people possessed. He speaks of their clothing, describing them as being tattered and torn, made of simple fabrics, which barely covered their bodies. "They are people clothed with loose mantles made of deer skins, and aprons - (Norton, 902) This comparison created a first impression, which created a difference of stature between the natives and the English. Next he describes the type of houses the natives used. He viewed that the materials of their homes were made of a simple bark and that small poles, possibly bamboo, created the majority of their houses. The natives truly lived off the land and the gifts of nature showing their simplicity and lack of technology.
