Western Clan and Eastern House: First House

What is a house or home? A home is more than shelter, place to prepare meals and sleep. It is people, ethics, morals, successes and second-chances we rely on as we mature. Western Culture associates abundance of extended family, friends and neighbors with the word "clan." Eastern Culture encompasses the concept with the word "house."

There are few differences, yet each Clan and House is unique in various aspects. If not quite understanding larger meaning of Clan, which is a town or towns with associated member of relatives and friends of family working together for prosperity even when other Clans occupy the same physical area; then think of grieving a loved one. There is a sense of irreplaceable loss, not only in relation to losing someone, also in relation to the world through them when realizing they dyed. An aspect improving life is gone. Unfortunately, this type of loss is the first time people become aware of something generally taken for granted.

The First House is concepts, morals, ethics established by the group. The community shares these ideals freely in order to maintain success. Common understandings establish a sense of community in how a person interacts with each other.

Eastern Culture is orientated towards acknowledging leaders and successful families who organize learning activities to insure basic needs of shelter, food, work and experience as to identify an entire House. If a wealthy family with notoriety specializes in religion, military, politics, fashion and so-on, less prosperous member are members of this clan even though many they have another profession.

Many, if not most, are similar to a restaurant in a corporation. The company needs cooks to prepare meals and the family dedicated to cooking will learn this trade to feed everyone. The House prefers the corporate restaurant's food because it is orientated towards personal tastes and know people running the restaurant are honest, however, everyone still prefers the elegant food of the House specializing in preparing food, for they have superior knowledge related to the restaurant business.

This is similar to Clans; however, Clans do not protect their major import, export, contribution of society as heavily. Clans also unite together to protect each other through variety of ability and strength of numbers to maintain safety. The reliance or significance of trade to support everyone is not as important. Instead, Clans collaborate to produce essentials from whoever is willing to pay individual members. Everyone works for survival; therefore, specific areas of training are not as accentuated in Clans. In addition, Clans have more loyalty to other members of the Clan and do not always respect leaders occupying an area.

This is different than learning from other Houses. Western Culture focuses on individuality. Individuality emphasizes people obtaining a variety of experiences. The cross-section and integration of these experiences makes someone an individual. What is not known in Western Culture is the same activity is expressed differently in Eastern Culture. As people mature they have many questions about life. They want to test wisdom and gain knowledge through a unique path. A person might be rebellious before realizing the wisdom of their First House and family. In addition, it is normal for people to maintain relationships with other Houses when acting as a representative to share and trade information.

Understanding the First House, there are developmental stages. Early experiences are integral to people's maturity. It is a time when children play with each other and gain a sense of understanding of peers, begin looking for a spouse and learn everything like a sponge without judgment or alternate opinions. A child under the age of 9 or 12 would be readily accepted into a First House with limited worry. They learn and do grunt to pay their home and food, while learning the trade essentially how all children are raised. Wealthy families pay for their child's education when over the age of 12 or 14. They are already aware of proper behavior through the First House.

Western culture also engages in this behavior. People of many religions, ethics and backgrounds amongst the community want to subvert parental training by offering ideas and activities to children. Children also share family and teacher ideals to develop a community amongst their age group. The difference is in how leaders of the church, schools, government or military compete against each other when trying to win favor with a successful idea. People who find a leader's beliefs accurate, validates intellectual superiority and adept perception; ergo, validates their success. Successful ideas become a greater point of agreement to children growing up in the Clan. Therefore, if experiencing difficulty the Clan or First House is always more protective and understanding towards all members regardless of status.

Another reality of life, a person will not understand what a First House means to them until moving or maturing. Moving, everyone seems the same. A person can identify each member of their Clan with another person, yet it is all different. Suddenly the understanding people protecting the outsider are protecting you. As an adult, we only exchange information. We are reluctant to understand another person's point-of-view and may find ourselves wanting to teach other people more listen to what they say.

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