Vanuatu Tribe; Where Boys Are Forced To Jump Off Tall Towers To Prove Their Strength

Men are often seen as the protector of communities, the bone, and the strength of every Tribe, and as such, the responsibility of being strong and being adequately so is often left to these men. They are expected to eat well, grow well and learn to fend for themselves as early as they can all so they could keep their family and community safe from predators and several forms of danger. However, to prove this strength to a community of men who are older and more mature than they are, these young men are expected to go through certain processes, rites, and traditional practices. In recent times, to prove that a man is grown enough to handle life as a family man, he is expected to have been able to fend for himself and must have been able to keep a job.

However, in ancient times, and perhaps to date in some African tribes, this is not enough. They believe that it is not enough that a young man or boy can farm and be agriculturally productive and well-grounded enough to provide for himself, rather, he must also be able to go through certain things, things that are perhaps designed to weaken him, test him and show, eventually that he is indeed a young man who is ready for the future and life as a man in terrible, simple and strange situations. Such rites and practices are often called initiation rites or processes and they have been seen or practiced from one Tribe in the Amazons to ancient tribes in the Americas and even more so in Africa. For instance, in some parts of Africa, young men are locked in shrines for........

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Ok

Crazy tradition. Jump to your death because you want to prove your strength.

Now we see where the white man stole the idea of bungee jumping.