Slaves of Culture

Aviator

Elder Lister
It is that season where boys face the knife in my community. A simple operation to remove the foreskin is however riddled with primitive cultural practices that add no value to the practice or the meaning/purpose behind it.

In my village, most boys will be facing the knife tomorrow. This evening, there will be noise pollution from every home with a boy undergoing the cut. Dancing and immorality will rival the infamous disco matanga. Women will be expected to cook a full bale of chapati flour to feed ungrateful locals who have played no part in bringing up the boy.

And don't forget that the boy had to visit that useless uncle a few days ago and bribe him so as "to be allowed" to undergo the cut. The bribe is normally a few thousands of shillings, enough to pay school fees in secondary school for a day scholar.

But before that, and mostly during the last school holidays in September, the boys built some small houses (cubes). A 12-yr old doesn't have resources to do so, thus they ended up stealing from neighbors things like trees, mabati, etc to put up their cubes.

And for the past week and in the coming week, the parents aren't allowed to engage in sex. It is believed that the boy won't heal if the parents do so.

And from tomorrow, it will be hard to find young energetic men engaging in any productive labor. They will be roaming from one homestead to another, eating as much as they can, and oftentimes more than pigs, and demanding a packet of cigarettes from the new initiates. Ati ndio wampatie riika. And on the 8th day after the cut, the parents are expected to host a mega party for the entire village for the boy to "come out". While traditionally this was an occasion to gift the boy with goodies, nowadays it is just an opportunity for ungrateful village leeches to eat what they haven't worked for.

Once the boy is healed, they will be expected to engage in sex with a woman in the name of kùhura mbiro (removing soot). In every village, there's a loose ugly woman, usually older than these boys, who is known to remove the soot. And most definitely, she is a carrier of any STI/STD, including AIDS. The probability of the young boys acquiring one or more from her approaches 100%.

My people of the mountain, why do you stick to such silly and useless practices? Coz me I Kent. I will take my boy to a church-organized function where he will undertake some life lessons and catechism for two weeks. Then on 23st December, I will host a party for a few close friends and relatives to thank God for his successful passage of the rite, and give my parental blessings on him. We wi also be thanking God for his success in KCPE (hoping the results will be out by then).

#endofrant
 
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bigDog

Elder Lister
It is that season where boys face the knife in my community. A simple operation to remove the foreskin is however riddled with primitive cultural practices that add no value to the practice or the meaning/purpose behind it.

In my village, most boys will be facing the knife tomorrow. This evening, there will be noise pollution from every home with a boy undergoing the cut. Dancing and immorality will rival the infamous disco matanga. Women will be expected to cook a full bale of chapati floor to ungrateful locals who have played no part in bringing up the boy.

And don't forget that the boy had to visit that useless uncle a few days ago and bribe him so as "to be allowed" to undergo the cut. The bribe is normally a few thousands of shillings, enough to pay school fees in secondary school for a day scholar.

But before that, and mostly during the last school holidays in September, the boys built some small houses (cubes). A 12-yr old doesn't have resources to do so, thus they ended up stealing from neighbors things like trees, mabati, etc to put up their cubes.

And for the past week and in the coming week, the parents aren't allowed to engage in sex. It is believed that the boy won't heal if the parents do so.

And from tomorrow, it will be hard to find young energetic men engaging in any productive labor. They will be roaming from.one homestead to another, eating as much as they can, and getting a packet of cigarettes from the new initiates. And ndio wampatie riika. And on the 8th day after the cut, the parents are expected to host a mega party for the entire village for the boy to "come out". While traditionally this was an occasion to gift the boy with goodies, nowadays it is just an opportunity for ungrateful village leeches to eat what they haven't worked for.

Once the boy is healed, they will be expected to engage in sex with a woman in the name of kùhura mbiro (removing soot). In every village, there's a loose ugly woman, usually older than these boys, who is known to remove the soot. And most definitely, she is a carrier of any STI/STD, including AIDS. The probability of the young boys acquiring one or more from her approaches 100%.

My people of the mountain, why do you stick to such silly and useless practices? Coz me I Kent. I will take my boy to a church-organized function where he will undertake some life lessons and catechism for two weeks. Then on 23st December, I will host a party for a few close friends and relatives to thank God for his successful passage of the rite, and give my parental blessings on him. We wi also be thanking God for his success in KCSE (hoping the results will be out by then).

#endofrant
Unfortunately, that's what happens when the society has a cultural confusion.
 

upepo

Elder Lister
I will take my boy to a church-organized function where he will undertake some life lessons and catechism for two weeks. Then on 23st December, I will host a party for a few close friends and relatives to thank God for his successful passage of the rite, and give my parental blessings on him. We wi also be thanking God for his success in KCPE (hoping the results will be out by then).
What you are suggesting is more stupid than what you are yapping about. A human is culture, that is what separates man from other animals. Substituting your stupid culture for another stupid culture is the height of stupidity i.e. stupidity raised to a power of 2.
 

Aviator

Elder Lister
What you are suggesting is more stupid than what you are yapping about. A human is culture, that is what separates man from other animals. Substituting your stupid culture for another stupid culture is the height of stupidity i.e. stupidity raised to a power of 2.
Am not against culture.
Am against primitive cultural practices that add no value to the boychild and the society in general.
 

Field Marshal

Elder Lister
It is that season where boys face the knife in my community. A simple operation to remove the foreskin is however riddled with primitive cultural practices that add no value to the practice or the meaning/purpose behind it.

In my village, most boys will be facing the knife tomorrow. This evening, there will be noise pollution from every home with a boy undergoing the cut. Dancing and immorality will rival the infamous disco matanga. Women will be expected to cook a full bale of chapati flour to feed ungrateful locals who have played no part in bringing up the boy.

And don't forget that the boy had to visit that useless uncle a few days ago and bribe him so as "to be allowed" to undergo the cut. The bribe is normally a few thousands of shillings, enough to pay school fees in secondary school for a day scholar.

But before that, and mostly during the last school holidays in September, the boys built some small houses (cubes). A 12-yr old doesn't have resources to do so, thus they ended up stealing from neighbors things like trees, mabati, etc to put up their cubes.

And for the past week and in the coming week, the parents aren't allowed to engage in sex. It is believed that the boy won't heal if the parents do so.

And from tomorrow, it will be hard to find young energetic men engaging in any productive labor. They will be roaming from one homestead to another, eating as much as they can, and oftentimes more than pigs, and demanding a packet of cigarettes from the new initiates. Ati ndio wampatie riika. And on the 8th day after the cut, the parents are expected to host a mega party for the entire village for the boy to "come out". While traditionally this was an occasion to gift the boy with goodies, nowadays it is just an opportunity for ungrateful village leeches to eat what they haven't worked for.

Once the boy is healed, they will be expected to engage in sex with a woman in the name of kùhura mbiro (removing soot). In every village, there's a loose ugly woman, usually older than these boys, who is known to remove the soot. And most definitely, she is a carrier of any STI/STD, including AIDS. The probability of the young boys acquiring one or more from her approaches 100%.

My people of the mountain, why do you stick to such silly and useless practices? Coz me I Kent. I will take my boy to a church-organized function where he will undertake some life lessons and catechism for two weeks. Then on 23st December, I will host a party for a few close friends and relatives to thank God for his successful passage of the rite, and give my parental blessings on him. We wi also be thanking God for his success in KCPE (hoping the results will be out by then).

#endofrant
Nonsense written by a fundamentalist believer of the white Beberu god-ghost in the sky...

Aende asherekee Halloween na Valentine's like the brainless bonobo she is ..
 
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