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What's Are The Weirdest Culture In The World? by sweetpie23: 2:35pm On Sep 05, 2009 |
in full details please, THANKS |
Re: What's Are The Weirdest Culture In The World? by agathamari(f): 3:27pm On Sep 05, 2009 |
watch the tv show taboo on national geographic. what is weird to some is normal to others. last nights show was about the dead. in southern asia and some areas of europe you rent a grave for 3-5 years then your body is removed and another is added in its place. in the philipeans some people willingly live in graveyards. in the us people pay money to have thier family members autopsied. in buddist countries people volunteer to collect the dead and transport them to the morgues to recieve good karma. to them this is normal while to my husband thought t was very odd. some of it i found normal some i though was odd. it all depends on what your cultures norms are. you can also watch old episodes online. its very intresting |
Re: What's Are The Weirdest Culture In The World? by sweetpie23: 3:29pm On Sep 05, 2009 |
agathamari:which channel? |
Re: What's Are The Weirdest Culture In The World? by Krayola2(m): 3:49pm On Sep 05, 2009 |
A tribe in new Guinea (Sambian)views homosexual activity and semen ingestion in boys as vital to becoming a real man. It is kinda like a rite of passage Masculinity Read more about them, including their women, here http://people.stu.ca/~belyea/2002/RITES02/libsam.HTM |
Re: What's Are The Weirdest Culture In The World? by Nobody: 3:55pm On Sep 05, 2009 |
I used to watch Taboo, but my siblings couldn't stand it so I had to opt for another show. I watched one which was a passage rite into manhood. I think it's one of these Papua Guinea countries. Teenage boys would be cut with blades to make their skin look like crocodiles. Just think about it, over a hundred tribal marks on your body. Come and see how some were crying. The cutters didn't even care. They just forced the boys heads into their thighs. . . ewwww. . . . There was also one where young boys had to stick some kind of curved string down their throat, pass the esophagus and down to the stomach, also in Papua Guinea. One old man demonstrated it to the young men with ease. One of the boys resisted doing it, if you see as they slapped him ehh, he had to do it by force. |
Re: What's Are The Weirdest Culture In The World? by Nobody: 3:58pm On Sep 05, 2009 |
The transition starts when the boys are seven to ten years of age and will ensue for ten to fifteen years. Oral ingestion of semen by the boys is important to the growth of their manhood. Constant semen ingestion takes place because they believe that semen will only accumulate with what semen is swallowed. *Pukes and faints.* |
Re: What's Are The Weirdest Culture In The World? by agathamari(f): 4:07pm On Sep 05, 2009 |
sweetpie23: nationsl geographic. on dstv buy you can see it on online on teh national geographic website or on youtube |
Re: What's Are The Weirdest Culture In The World? by ezeagu(m): 4:47pm On Sep 05, 2009 |
stillwater: And then you guy's will say its hard to be a woman. Well all I can say to that tradition is hopefully STD's or AID's doesn't hit their communities anytime soon. Lawd have mercy. @ Post, I know you said detailed, but mine is simple: lip plates of the Mursi Hmm, not very 'cute'. |
Re: What's Are The Weirdest Culture In The World? by zmurda(m): 5:14pm On Sep 05, 2009 |
I have promised myself not to look through this thread again. Arghhh!!! There are some sick cultures in the world: Heard in some places, a visitor is allowed to shag his friend's wife Some sects of some religion believe some spirit can come on you and you start ranting in some strange tongues Some religions believe they can kill in the name of a god and they'll be rewarded by eternal bliss Saw this on TV, girls not yet into puberty or just getting into puberty have their breasts pressed with hot iron to prevent them being attractive to prospective philanderers |
Re: What's Are The Weirdest Culture In The World? by Nobody: 5:23pm On Sep 05, 2009 |
Yeah I saw the breast pounding too. They do it with a hot pestle not iron. I think it's in Cameroun. And then you guy's will say its hard to be a woman. Well all I can say to that tradition is hopefully STD's or AID's doesn't hit their communities anytime soon. Lawd have mercy. No wonder they pour all their frustrations on women. The effect of such passage rites is enough to make any person insane. |
Re: What's Are The Weirdest Culture In The World? by zmurda(m): 7:04pm On Sep 05, 2009 |
stillwater: You right stillwater They use hotpestle, hot stones, hot banana etc etc http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/5107360.stm |
Re: What's Are The Weirdest Culture In The World? by africhika(f): 3:23am On Sep 06, 2009 |
breast ironing in cameroon http://current.com/items/88852332_breast-ironing.htm |
Re: What's Are The Weirdest Culture In The World? by Manager007: 12:31pm On Sep 07, 2009 |
In some parts of Papua New Guinea (1), an aspiring bride worth her sugar must, as a matter of rudimentary courtesy, sound parental up-bringing, and solid character, have sex with every man in the village as part of their traditional wedding protocol, in order to affirm her dignity and also guarantee her fertility, in strict conformity with their cherished, rich, and ancient culture! Meanwhile, in another part of the same Papua New Guinea, members of the Dani ethnic nationality rarely have sex. By tradition, in order to acquire sufficient respectability, newly wedded couples must wait for as long as 5 years before they copulate. In Cooks Islands , located in the South Pacific Ocean, older married women have the exclusive statutory and civic duties of routinely introducing, initiating, instructing, grooming, and practicalising the science and art of advanced reproductive dynamics with teenage boys. Their religion cautions them that repeated indulgence in less than three (3) solid "rounds" per 24 hours, ultimately leads to acute schizophrenia. Eskimos in Northern Canada and Greenland have drastically simplified the process of wedding. Marriages are arranged at birth Eskimo law demands that marriages can only be deemed official if, and only when, such couples start copulating. At the exact moment of their debut pre-marital sexual experimentation, they are automatically translated to the realm of graciously married husband and wife. No further ceremonies are needed, or may even be tolerated by their strict marital ethics and etiquette. Different strokes for different folks. Different lanes for different brains. Simple! [/b] |
Re: What's Are The Weirdest Culture In The World? by Manager007: 12:32pm On Sep 07, 2009 |
More weird cultures yet- to-be revealed. Keep your fingers crossed |
Re: What's Are The Weirdest Culture In The World? by agathamari(f): 1:53pm On Sep 07, 2009 |
z-murda: all a matter of perspctive. there are things here in nigeria that outsiders would/do find sick (inherating wives, outdated tradition of killing twins, woman-woman marriage for a male child, ) nigeria was on taboo last season. |
Re: What's Are The Weirdest Culture In The World? by africhika(f): 3:01pm On Sep 07, 2009 |
^^ nigeria was on taboo? i missed that episode. but that's an outdated practice right? killing twins |
Re: What's Are The Weirdest Culture In The World? by ezeagu(m): 3:08pm On Sep 07, 2009 |
agathamari: Twins are still killed in some communities in Madagascar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRjQk3Vghr8 |
Re: What's Are The Weirdest Culture In The World? by agathamari(f): 3:42pm On Sep 08, 2009 |
africhika: had to do with the facial/body cuttings. my huddy has some on his side but none on his face. what is with that anyway? some people here have told me in some remote northern tribes they still do it - the twins thing |
Re: What's Are The Weirdest Culture In The World? by tamme: 7:04pm On Sep 24, 2009 |
Masai Kenya |
Re: What's Are The Weirdest Culture In The World? by sexyLeamon(f): 4:11am On Sep 25, 2009 |
I was watching this culture on TV can't remember the name but dat is the weirdest culture I have ever seen man. they actually have a day can "pain day". and everyone has to under go as much pain as u can. they celebrate it like the way we celebrate christmas, u should see how they ruthlessly beat each others. |
Re: What's Are The Weirdest Culture In The World? by agathamari(f): 6:48pm On Oct 03, 2009 |
sexyLeamon:there are a bunch like that. south east asian countries do this alot, even religious holidays call for blood letting. watching this festival dont remeber the name but it was the day mohameds grandsoon died. children as young as 6 were cutting themselves with razors and standing in pools of blood to show thier devotion to the marter |
Re: What's Are The Weirdest Culture In The World? by africhika(f): 8:13pm On Oct 04, 2009 |
http://www.colorq.org/Articles/article.aspx?d=2004&x=unexpecteda Voyeuristic East Asian women enjoy homoerotic displays from men ewww Ancient and medieval writings recorded a large number of instances in which Chinese and Japanese women either spied on, or publicly enjoyed homoerotic performances from men, and also enjoyed men as sexual entertainment in other ways. These stories flies in the face of Western cliches of oppressed Oriental women, whose sexuality is controlled by men. In modern-day Japan, the main market for gay romance/pornography comic books is heterosexual women! This phenomenon, known as yaoi, is also popular in the Chinese world and has only recently started catching on in the West relatively. East Asian female sexuality has existed INDEPENDENTLY of pleasing men for thousands of years. Yet this idea is never represented in Western popular media. Many Westerners have the idea that East Asian women are conditioned to take care of others and put the needs of their men before their own. In American films, sexism and racism combine to create a fantasy world in which yellow women exist to serve the pleasures of white men. Whenever you see a yellow woman on American TV or the big screen, she is almost always the love interest of a white man, there to serve as eye-candy and fodder for erotic fantasies about a mysterious Other. It is a wonder then, that after all this media conditioning, many males of European descent confessed their fantasies about indulging in one man-multiple woman group sex with multiple Asian women? There are many white boys who think only of how Asian women can serve them, but not how *they* can serve Asian women. (Now doesn't that make men of European descent just as oppressive as the East Asian men they stereotype as sexist exploiters of Asian women?) |
Re: What's Are The Weirdest Culture In The World? by sweetpie23: 8:14pm On Oct 04, 2009 |
sexyLeamon: |
Re: What's Are The Weirdest Culture In The World? by ezeagu(m): 8:18pm On Oct 04, 2009 |
africhika: How did you find that? *side eye* |
Re: What's Are The Weirdest Culture In The World? by africhika(f): 8:20pm On Oct 04, 2009 |
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