No matter if you are in the field or reading the work, your ethnocentrism will paint your opinion of other cultures. As I was reading my view of the article was wrong because I couldn't see beyond what our culture had told me was correct. Up until that point I had only had one story about how you should react when you are given a gift and that had a big impact on how I viewed the community. At the end of the article I realized how wrong I was about the community and that what they did made sense for their community