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A taboo is a strong social prohibition relating to any area of human activity or social custom that is sacred and forbidden. Leprosy sufferers In Nepal are shunned and confined to colonies because of their disease. In australia, human scavengers feed on the food their city throws away.
A taboo is a strong social prohibition relating to any area of human activity or social custom that is sacred and forbidden. Leprosy sufferers In Nepal are shunned and confined to colonies because of their disease. In australia, human scavengers feed on the food their city throws away.
A taboo is a strong social prohibition relating to any area of human activity or social custom that is sacred and forbidden. Leprosy sufferers In Nepal are shunned and confined to colonies because of their disease. In australia, human scavengers feed on the food their city throws away.
prohibition relating to any area of human activity or social custom that is sacred and forbidden based on moral judgment and sometimes even religious beliefs.
• ‘Taboo’ is derived from
Tongan word ‘tapu’ meaning under prohibition. Our Selection of some Taboos The Outsiders In every society there are people who live on the fringe and must suffer the consequences. Some choose to be outsiders, but others are forced to be.
In Nepal, leprosy sufferers are
shunned and confined to colonies because of their disease.
In India, rat catchers are despised
because of the vermin they pursue.
And in Australia, human scavengers
feed on the food their city throws away. Cannibalism – Eating the ‘Dead’ Cannibalism is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh of other human beings.
The reasons for cannibalism: sanctions
by a cultural norm, extreme famine or hunger, insanity or social deviancy.
UAF Flight 571 crashed into the Andes in
1972, the survivors resorted to eating the deceased during their 72 days in the mountains.
In Pakistan, two brothers were arrested
for eating human corpses stolen from graves. Unusual Marriage Customs In Germany, friends kidnap the bride and hide her somewhere. Then the groom has to go and search for her.
The community of Tidong, in Sandakan,
Sabah, prohibit a newly married couple from going to the bathroom at all for 3 days and 3 nights.
Before a wedding in Scotland, friends and
family throw nasty things on the bride like eggs, sauces, mud, feathers and anything that is just nasty to get covered with.
The Daur people make the bride and groom
finalize the wedding date by killing a little baby chick while they hold a knife together. Beyond the Graves Everyone dies, but everyone deals with death differently. Culture, religion, and society have a large impact on the tradition of laying the departed to eternal rest.
In Nepal, a body is burned beside
a sacred river.
In Germany, human bodies are
sometimes put on public display. Extreme Body Modifications Mentawai women in Sumatra file their teeth to sharp points, just to look good!
Chinese men and women having their
legs surgically lengthened to make them taller.
Foot binding was a custom practiced on
young girls and women for approximately one thousand years in China.
Corneal tattooing is the practice of
tattooing the cornea of the human eye. Bizarre Foods & Cuisines Durian’s smell evokes reactions of intense disgust, and has been described variously as rotten onions, turpentine and even gym socks!
Fugu is lethally poisonous due to its
tetrodotoxin. chefs who have qualified through rigorous training are allowed to deal with the fish.
Hákarl: Icelandic delicacy that is
basically shark that is buried for 6 weeks to rot then eaten.
Very few people customarily eat the
placenta after the baby's birth ‘One-Step-Ahead’ Kids What one society views as a normal way to grow up another may not.
In Bolivia, mining involves children for
carrying material, loading tippers or even planting dynamites!
Nepalese choose a four-year-old girl a
new living goddess of Nepal, to spend her childhood revered as the source of prosperity for the mountain kingdom.
Shia Muslim utilize chains with sharp
metal to scourge their bodies in reflection of their sorrow and grief. Extreme Rituals Many societies have rituals that mark the passage from one phase of life to another, but in some cultures they can be physical, painful or even deadly.
On a remote Island in the South Pacific
boys leap headfirst from a 70-ft tall tower in an initiation ritual that could kill them.
Then, in Papua New Guinea, a young girl
tattoos her face before marriage as part of her transition to womanhood.
in West Africa, a 70-year-old man
participates in a bloodletting ceremony. Misfits Misfits are people who live outside of their cultural norms. Some are born into that situation, while others seek it
An Australian man convinced his right leg
didn't belong on his body, so he deliberately froze it beyond recovery, forcing doctors to amputate.
Bedeys are not included in Bangladesh’s list
of voters, because as nomads they don’t have a land tax certificate and don’t belong to any local government body.
Arthur Boyt is an animal lover and
enthusiastic conservationist, but one look in his freezer would make you think otherwise. Do we want a society without taboos? Activities which would not so long ago have been a source of private shame and embarrassment are, thanks to the glories of the cyber-age, openly and proudly acknowledged.
A disappearing taboo often suggests developing awareness.
Generally, any group of 'victims' or 'activists' has a taboo area of
responsibility that they choose to ignore.
When our awareness expands, we can start to discard some of the taboos that we have outgrown.
The worst taboo we face is our reluctance to challenge our most deeply- held opinions or prejudices. The End