(This is regarding an article-https://msu.edu/~jdowell/miner.html This article does detail some things that may be disturbing and I briefly mention them in this comment)
This is about a group of people called the Nacirema, who have a heavy belief in magic and do a lot of rituals that many would consider torture, such as drilling holes in cavities and filling them with magic supernatural substance. The “Holy-mouth man” Who can be seen as a dentist in America’s culture, just not to the extreme.
Their name “Nacirema” is ”American” spelled backward
If you read the article it talks about a place where the sick go to get “healed” (basically getting tortured) that they call the latipso, backward, it would read ospital which is very close to the word Hospital. It also talks about how the children were scared because they saw it as a place to die or get tortured, and many young kids now are scared to go to the hospital in fear of shots.
If you read the fourth footnote on the bottom it says
“According to Nacirema mythology, their nation was originated by a culture hero, Notgnihsaw, who is otherwise known for two great feats of strength – the throwing of a piece of wampum across the river Pa-To-Mac and the chopping down of a cherry tree in which the Spirit of Truth resided. ”
The cultural heroes name spelled backward is ”Washington” and there is a myth about him cutting down a cherry tree.
The article also talks about a ritual men do where they scrape and lacerate their face with a sharp object, which can be seen as shaving.
They also talk about how every lunar moon the women bake their heads in an oven for an hour, which can be seen as the machine women use when getting their hair done.
These are some similarities in cultures that are complete opposites in practice, but when you look deeper they are very similar in the overall picture.