Why is it useful to study the nacirema civilization?

It is useful to study the Nacirema civilization because it has  developed an advanced civilization due to a highly successful economy and to new engineering feats.  Nacirema civilization is based on the capitalist economic system, in which goods and services are sold to each other in exchange for paper with odd, green ink pictures and metal cylinders with wildlife and pictures of the faces of some Nacirema men on them.

The primarily goals of the zapatistas of mexico in 1994 were land reform and redistribution. it is also included in their demands to have a greater political and cultural autonomy for the indigenous people of chiapas and the rest of mexico.