A number of videos have been posted to YouTube lately that
consist of short films taken in rural Africa within
communities which still practice traditional lifestyles. These videos are quickly
removed from YouTube, usually within hours or days. For this reason I won't
bother posting any links. However more keep reappearing so if you search for
"African tribes" you'll probably find a few. The reason YouTube
remove these uploads is because they "breach community guidelines"
relating to scenes of nudity. The people filmed live in a very different
culture to that of my own country, Britain ,
and much of the rest of the world. The most obvious deviation is that they wear
little or no clothes. No doubt the people who post them to YouTube do so for
their erotic value, perhaps understandably. However for the people in the
videos there is nothing extraordinary or lewd about walking around naked. They
live in a climate that is never cold and they have dark negroid skin to protect
them from sunburn. Perhaps the taboo against nudity that exists in Europe
comes from the fact that in many cases clothing is necessary for survival. A
naked human outdoors on many days in Britain ,
let along further north, would die of hypothermia. Because the weather is always
warm in central Africa the people do not have that taboo.
Nevertheless they pay a lot of attention to their appearance, especially the
women. They wear elaborate jewellery; bangles, beads and ribbons. They braid their
hair and paint their skin white, blue, purple, red and many other colours. They
also have odd piercing and other forms of body modification, such as inserting
a clay disc beneath their lower lip and stretching it out until it is many
inches across. To me this looks unsightly. I wonder if it's comfortable and it
must impede their speech; but in their eyes they're very pretty. An interesting
feature of their demeanour is that they seem very jubilant. In almost all these
videos they are engaging in dancing, singing and beating drums, sometimes in
elaborate formations that indicate a kind of ritual to celebrate something. Even
going about their daily lives they seem ebullient and lively. They laugh
constantly while they're talking. Another thing I noticed is that they're
obviously healthy and well fed. I didn't see anybody who appeared disabled,
sick or malnourished. Whenever they smile, which is most of the time, you can
see that they usually have a full set of strong teeth. They live an austere
life compared to our own. They have no electricity and all the luxuries that
come with that. No running water, no machinery. They live in huts made of tree
branches and dried mud. They make basic tools of wood and stone. They don't go
to church and follow a shamanic religion. Yet they appear far more jovial than
most people I know in England .
They clearly enjoy life. These are certainly not the people I see on the news
starving to death in UN camps or jumping into ramshackle boats to cross the Mediterranean
Sea to Europe . I don't think these people
would ever become immigrants because the life they have already suits them
perfectly. The irony is that the Africans who are currently contributing to the
refugee crisis are not those who practice the indigenous culture. They are the
"modern Africans" who live in cities or labour on corporate farms and
sweat shops. Their grandparents may have lived the old life, but over the years
the globalist takeover has infected their society. Sadly fewer and fewer people
live like those in the videos. If the urban Africans were left free to go back
to the old ways they'd probably be much happier. I'm not suggesting that they
should give up Western technology if they don't want to; but perhaps find a way
to blend it to their local customs without displacing them. These videos have
got me thinking, especially about how they relate to my interest in other
unique human communities that are under threat, like St Helena .
See here for
background: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/st-kilda-revisited.html.
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