MCQ
The social changes in Maasai society are that $.........$
  • A
    The traditional difference based on age between the elders and warriors has been disturbed, but it has not broken down.
  • B
    A new distinction between the wealthy and the poor pastoralists has developed.
  • Both $(a)$ and $(b).$
  • D
    None of these.

Answer

Correct option: C.
Both $(a)$ and $(b).$
Pastoral communities in different parts of the world are affected in a variety of different ways by changes in the modern world. New laws and new borders affect the patterns of their movement. Pastoralists are not relics of the past. They are not people who have no place in the modern world. Environmentalists and economists have increasingly come to recognise that pastoral nomadism is a form of life that is perfectly suited to many hilly and dry regions of the world.

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