The Berber Culture

The Berbers are unique people who are quite different then the average person living in a city in Morocco. If you were a Berber, you’d be a living a basic life in the mountains. Also, because the Berbers are so far away from everything, things like: electricity, processed foods, Electrical equipment and loads of other things are not available. The Berbers also have a completely different daily routine compared to us. We wake up, have breakfast and go to school and then come back from school and spend time at home or go somewhere. However for some Berbers school isn’t a option, they would have to work, boys with their fathers looking after animals or helping them out and girls stay at home with their mother and help with the cooking and cleaning. They would start this from an early age of 7!! If you compared how much work we do to how much the berbers do there would be a big difference. Most foods that the Berbers eat are either grown or bought from the market. There are a few small shops around however there aren’t any supermarkets like Marjane, Aswak Aslaam and Acima which we have here in Rabat. Some Berbers don’t even have clean water! As you can see the berber life seems much more harsher, however most berbers have been brought into this culture so they have adapted to it.