Effects Of Large Tribal Marks On Faces

Do Yorubas discriminate against other Yorubas with large tribal marks on their faces?
Do those with tribal marks feel a sort of complex for having them ?
would you turn down a prospective mate or suitor because of tribal marks?
Honest answers please.

Really?
But it's not her fault na

me too.
I don't think I would have
but then again, I never really had the opportunity present itself so it's hard to say if I would have turned down a loving,loaded guy with markings.

                     

africans (nigerians in particular) are the first to reject their own culture, it's a shame, black people used to dislike their own features like big lips until the oyinbo girls start to make their lips bigger, we need oyinbo validation to appreciate our own values too bad, most africans are too busy to pray arabs and white people gods, bravo!!we can be proud of ouselves, Don't get me wrong,I'm part nigerian ,my mom is nigerian ,

Wait till TOH and her people see this thread . Maybe Donzman will see this thread and come back

Oh my freaking God you are TOH. osisi must hear this

Ewwww, am so glad my mom did not think too much of tribal marks when I was born.

She has two cute tiny horizontal marks on both of her cheeks.

She's still a beauty though

But ewwwwww, large tribal marks, not my thing

u mean the type on adedibu's face?!

You are an idiot for bringing up this tribal mark issue with yorubas again. This issue was discussed a long time
ago on a previous thread, but being the useless tribalist that you are, you wouldn't let it rest.



In Igbo land, do you discriminate between those that are Osu's and those that aren't ?

The Osu Caste System in Igboland: Discrimination Based on Descent


http://uk.geocities.com/internationaldalitsolidarity/cerd/dikeosu2002.html


The Osu, by definition, is a people sacrificed to the gods in Igbo community. And they assist the high priest of the traditional religion to serve the deities or the gods in their shrine. It is the belief of many Igbo traditionalists that the deities, which were (and are still) perceived in some quarters as being very powerful, would wreck havoc in the society, if they are not appeased.

In some special circumstances, those who hold the traditional beliefs of the Igbos could transform a Diala who committed certain atrocities against the land, into an Osu. This process involved intricate rituals (offering of libations and sacrificing animals to the earth goddess). Some of the ancestors of the present-day Osu people inherited their dehumanizing social status this way.

Because of many oral interpretations of the construct, the Osu has various definitions. It has been defined as a ‘cult slave,’ a living sacrifice,’ an ‘untouchable,’ ‘outcast,’ ‘owner’s cult,’ ‘a slave of the deity,’ and a ‘sacred and holy being.’ 3 These names mean the same: it is an abomination in the Igbo society for the Diala to marry Osu.


All human beings are created equal, but human experiences are heterogeneous. Some people have had it rough all their life on earth, while others do not have a lot to complain about. Naturally, life has the same meaning for everyone, but the Osu caste system in Igboland seems to have changed the meaning of life for a group of people branded Osu


Osu are people our igbo ancestors used to do sacrifies to the gods for the difficulties they faced then, which includes disease, lack of rain, poor farm produce, children and babies dieing etc.

The gods then asked for human sacrifies to help with these issues. When a sacrifice is offered to gods it is damned evil to touch those things.



Even in the bible when Abraham offer sacrifice to God, nobody eats the sacrify, it is burn to ashes.

The stigma that Osu have had today this that they were used for gods sacrifice and dimmed to the igbos as outcast.

To my understanding, most of then are very wealthy and brilliant people, their girls are very beautiful.

I myself will NEVER marry osu, not because I don't like them. It is because of the stigma the igbos has on them. For example, they do not involve in active igbo events. No one will elect an osu person as a governor, local chairmen, Eze, Chief, etc.

If an Osu people tries to speak on behalf of the igbo he/she is immediately discredited, because of this stigma. I still have great ambitions for myself and would not want something to hold me back.

If you are not igbo you can never understand. This thing will NEVER go away and I feel very sorry for them. We call it Ome na ala (The law of our land) We cannot leave ome na ala and start to do ome na elu (Not the law of the land)

When you go to village and see how these people live, you would feel sorry from them. They do not trade because nobody would buy from them. In school nobody plays with osu children etc, it is really terrible.

If you want to leave in diaspora all your life, them marrying osu will not really affect you. But if you plan sometime in the future to return back to Nigeria, hmmm,  you really have to be very careful. Remember we do not only mary for ourselfs we marry for children as well, you do not want to give our children a bad start in life.

I am sorry I have to say this, but this is the way it is and I did not make it so. Remember that osu are human being like us too.

my mum has little ones,wev seen em soo long that we r used to it but she hates em still

huge turn off for me,i really don't look forward to turnin someone down jus because of them marks,

Post a picture.
Are they very pronounced?

Please tell us more.
What are these names that these friends of yours call those with tribal marks?

not particularly fond of them 

one of my cousins was given a huge mark on her left cheek.

i still don't know why, because this happened when i went to boarding school.

She had been living with us w/out a mark.

my grannie said smthing about her being too naughty

Anyways the effect right now will be extremely minute

because this girl has grown up to be a real beauty.

if she wants to surgically graft it, she can but it may make no difference.


i actually know one white pesin wey dey obsessed with tribal marks