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Natives of Lesser gods 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.