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Mercnbeth -> RE: Maasai hairdressers break taboos (9/11/2008 3:04:11 PM)
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ORIGINAL: candystripper
We trample all over the indigeous people of this world, eradicating and ridiculing their beliefs and culture, relegating them to one homogeous Westerized world, as if we were helping them.
It is appalling.
candystripper [sm=pole.gif]
"We"? Why apply your guilt ridden persona on anyone else?
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"The women here love our style. We get good money ... I hope to save enough to marry my second wife ... by end of the year," said the father-of-four from Narok in the Rift Valley.
Longishu Nyangusi, 25, also works as a hairdresser and like Lalasho came to Mombasa to find a white tourist wife. He says his lack of English has held him back.
"I could have hooked a white woman by now. I regret refusing to go to school. I was fooled by our fat cows and thought life is just fine," he said near his open-air salon-cum-shop.
That quote from the article doesn't appear to document any struggle except for sex and money. The man is looking for a "white woman" while working at his open-air salon & cum shop with no gun, western or otherwise, held to his head.
What's "appalling" is thinking his personal decision is a bad one because it doesn't fit into your image of what a person from his culture should do.
Closer to home in Amish communities the same is occurring - you feel a youth from their culture leaving it for the evils of LA or NYC is also an "appalling" for the indigenous people of Lancaster PA?
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