The Maasai , a warrior and nomad aristocracy that once dominated large sheets extending between Kenya and Tanzania in a vast region of East Africa, today languishes in an unstoppable decline absorbed by the sweeping machine of Western civilization . Although still some clans and groups struggling to survive while maintaining their own cultural traits , isolating more areas invaded by the tourism industry . Their way of life and economy has been and is still based in a society that practices such pastoral nomadism in search of better pastures to feed their cattle , the main reason for all their cultural tradition. The Maasai are a community made up of about 200 to 300,000 people united by a language of Nilo- Hamitic origin known as Maa . The Maasai ethnic group is comprised of four distinct tribal groups : the Samburu , the arbusa , the baraguyu and the Masai . The latter were considered over time as the main group, military and socially dominating the other groups of their own ethnicity and other neighboring ethnic groups , including the Kikuyu and Nandi . The Masai are an ancient people who live in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. Even today in the XXI century maintained their customs intact . Its main activity is grazing , for what has traditionally been a nomadic society . So much influenced cattle in Maasai culture, their diet is based solely on three foods : meat, milk and blood. Yes , breakfast milk mixed with blood . If you wear red is to scare away larger animals , such as elephants and rhinos. But his main enemies are cats , which are protected by the spear that always carry . A tip of the spear is designed to help walk long distances every month in search of pasture for cattle. The other is to plunge it sharp for that lion who dares disturb your animals.  

 

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