Should We Accept Cruelty in Cultures?
Sure it is their culture, but it is not grown adults choosing to do this to themselves. It is done to helpless children who have no choice and who later must come to terms with it and think it makes them beautiful.
Apart from the cultural aspect of this, it is also now a great money spinner for the tribes, as tourists are shipped in by the bus-load and each bus pays the tribe. So in essence, it is a form of child labor. Most of the people in these tribes don’t have access to a proper education, and many aren’t allowed to leave the tribe because they are illegal immigrants.
In such a closed environment where all the children know is what their uneducated elders tell them, and where the only contact with outsiders comes from bus-loads of tourists with cameras, it is difficult to see that things will change anytime in the future.
A Karen Long-Neck feeding her son
So while we respect the people, we think cultures must evolve and remove aspects which cause harm to their people. Not too long ago it was culturally acceptable for western nations to own slaves and beat their wives. Luckily these things are no longer legal, and we think that other cultural aspects which physically harm others shouldn’t be either.
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Without improvement, mankind stays backward
It’s all “nice to look at” from the perspective of curious tourists, but if you see it from a humanistic way, you see cruelty as a result of ignorance
yes, and it continues since it is tradition
Must be very painful
it’s time for the world to realise being politically correct can do more harm than good!
The start of use of brass coil collars had been forbidden in a half century.
If a girl make the shoulders 10cm (4″) lower in the age from 5 to the age of 25. It is a half millimetre “longer neck” of each month. It is to little as you do not feel that. The problem is the ambitious teen-age girl who rivalry about the boys.
What is the worst: High-heeled shoe, Piercing, Plastic surgery, Tattooing or lowering of shoulders by brass coil collars or smoking or obesity.
High-heeled shoe will always by daily use spoil the feet.
Piercing of the mouth can increase the spittle, what can spoil the digestion.
What must banned first: Smoking or Obesity, Piercing of the mouth; High-heeled shoes or brass collar?
Today the Thai-government pay the woman for the use of brass collars, and this fine payment are their only way to get a education, (the girls can pay for the boys).
They have need of a choose between illiteracy or brass collar. And if a girl choose illiteracy, it affect all. The reality as refugee are only happy if you love your brass collar. But if all tell the girl who beautiful she is by the brass collar, she have need to feel the beauty.