I am getting on an airplane now, so I'll be off line for a few hours here.
ping!
So cute. So dumb.
"The Heart hath reasons that Reason knows not of."
We will see what happens when the harsh reality strikes home!
The Masai are good guys, very honest.
Cattlemen like you wouldn’t believe.
They don’t ask “how are you”.. they ask “how are your cattle”.
Many people might think this is an odd couple. However, many western women are looking for real men, men who’ll provide and care for them and their families, instead of getting snockered on vacations to Spain and fistfighting. If you have to go to Africa and become the wife of a Masai, then sobeit.
“Meitkini, she says, felt the same way, but Masai relationships do not adhere to the same conventions as they do in the West. ‘The Masai don’t marry for love but for power and social position, so it is a slightly alien concept. It was a long time before we were able to acknowledge our feelings for each other, and we couldn’t express them physically, as Masai rules forbid physical contact between unmarried men and women. It was frustrating, but I had to respect their culture. I was a visitor and it would have been a gross insult to behave any other way.’”
Obviously the Masais haven’t had the blessings of multiculturalism showered upon them!
“The central unit of Maasai society is the age-set. Although young boys are sent out with the calves and lambs as soon as they can toddle, childhood for boys is mostly playtime, with the exception of ritual beatings to test courage and endurance. Girls are responsible for chores such as cooking and milking, skills which they learn from their mothers at an early age.[25] Every 15 years or so, a new and individually named generation of Morans or Il-murran (warriors) will be initiated. This involves most boys between 12 and 25, who have reached puberty and are not part of the previous age-set. One rite of passage from boyhood to the status of junior warrior is a painful circumcision ceremony, which is performed without anaesthetic. This ritual is typically performed by the elders, who use a sharpened knife and makeshift cattle hide bandages for the procedure. The Maa word for circumcision is emorata.[26] The boy must endure the operation in silence. Expressions of pain bring dishonor, albeit temporarily. Any exclamations can cause a mistake in the delicate and tedious process, which can result in life-long scarring, dysfunction, and pain. The healing process will take 3–4 months, during which urination is painful and nearly impossible at times, and boys must remain in black cloths for a period of 4–8 months.[27]”
Sound like some very tough people to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maasai
At least he can kill a lion with a spear(or they used to have to do that before entering manhood), unlike many wimpy men today who cannot even kill a mosquito.
Cross racial, cross cultural, cross socioeconomic status mud hut ping . . .