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  • I understand we circumcise children, but i think its a little different. its very quick, and safe. I think the cutting of the child isn't right, although it is a ritual for them, so i will not speak badly of it. Like the older boy, thats fine. He is old enough, and wanted to do it. Just my opinion.

  • Well at least the older boy chose to have his stomach scarred not like the kid who didn't even have a choice. That's cruel to do that to children--in my opinion.

  • ooh 3:11 imagine missing the ground by accident with that and cracking your self in the foot : S ouch

  • I see Ray Bans.

  • Oh man, a society that encourages alteration in the form of cutting?

    Heeellloo plastic surgery.

  • fuck off!! i don't wanna be an adult :yaoming:

  • @rachaSka Okay Peter Pan. lol

  • @jasonevil78 your idealistic beliefs are a result of a pampered like in the modern 21st century. These practices have existed way before you. This is what makes humanity, the diversity of cultures. To judge things you know little to naught about should be reconsidered less you enjoy looking the fool.

  • People should understand that this is a tribal ritual, that has gone on for hundreds maybe even thousands of years. Who gives you the right to judge someone's else s culture.

  • @jasonevil78 Dude. They live a COMPLETLY different life to you. Many of us westerners get angry because we would never to do that our children but we live completly different lives, you have to respect their culture and tradition.

  • if they were in america, they would etch fake abs on them

  • Ugh....poor kid!!! I would be scarred for life. :P

  • i rather get a tattoo

  • povo louco

  • that scratching a baby's face shit is the most fucked up thing i've ever seen

  • No offence

    but the stomach thing looks cool...i bet its just as painful as getting tatted...

  • in my tribe we make you go poo poo in a cup then you lick it like a ice cream

  • Well people in America basically do this to their sons it's called circumcision

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  • @gluesticksGiRl1 they do it when they are babies in america. in africa they do it when you hit puberty.

  • @gluesticksGiRl1 that dosent make any sense

  • Its like a tattoo in a way.

  • wait a minute is that souljaboy?

  • they're black so you can hardly notice the scars

  • I got scarification, but not that badass

  • You people say that this is wrong you are soooo shallow. This is what they have done forever, who are we to come impose our culture onto theres, infact it may not sound like it but this is helping the tribe progress. Back when you had to hunt & live of the land this test would ensure that only the brave and couragous move on and spread there jeans. I understand that that boy was im pain and that was hard to watch, but this is THERE way of life! Practise your culture & let them practice theres!

  • the worse part is not the scar or the cut.....its the fucking dirt water they use to clean the wounds....fucking hell....no gloves too

  • thumps up if you thought the video said SACRIFICATION

  • poor child :( fuck that blacksmith 

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  • I would rather be a bitch fuck that shit!

  • they could get infections

  • how could you question it you dont live in their culture and so you couldn't possibly understand it im sure they think that your stupid for being a fat ass who insults cultures from the safety of a keyboard

  • Hey! Screamokid! We have our customs and they have theirs! We have beliefs and they have theirs! Why an't yall' understand that!? And if you don't understand it or like it why are you watching it!?

  • Emos eat your heart out

  • I read about a tribe in New Guinea that does this only they cut a lot deeper into the skin and then rub bits of charcoal in it do resemble the scales of the aligator to resemble strength.

  • Lol That guy had a baby on his hat. XD

  • i cried when the boy cried

  • that little kid took it like a boss

    props

  • Damn, do they have steroids over there!?

    Just kidding. :P

  • this is the monkey

  • @hamstergirl4444 I agree

  • people this is nothing compared to the ritual where u have to suck on elders penis as a child until ure like 13 to make u a man lol.. srs no joke

  • @ElephantsTongue Such lies...

  • 1:14 buff ass nigga

  • scarification and tattoo is the same thing

  • is it me or is there a baby doll on the guys head at 4:39

  • @ultimatedilan Its really a baby doll O.o

  • @fifakiri... It looks like the blacksmith makes one blade for each scarification... The process of forging metal should sterilize the knife?

  • this is how my aids charity donations become useless

  • that is just fucked up.. Why cutting a child seriously.. Spiritual ritiual my foot !!!!

  • i dont see any scaring on either the mother or father of that child

  • that little kid is beautiful... why would you scar him like that? its just plain fucked up

  • doesnt the little boy who got his face cut his father kinda look like rajon rondo of the celtics :)

  • have you ever cut yourself on accident with a knife? it's not deep, but you do bleed. the shock of initial contact is what hurts, but after that, it's over, right?

    i honestly think after about a minute or two of the scarification, they barely even feel it. if you were to just daze out and concentrate on cloud animals, it wouldn't be so bad.

  • crazy people! fuckn sick tradition!

  • I studied among them for four months as part of my cultural anthropology dissertation. It was quite the experience

  • a nuclear bomb on africa would seriously make the world a better place.

  • I equate scaring that child's face to American mothers getting their child's ears pierced as babies. Both very wrong in my opinion.

  • it hurts so bad, but looks so awesome after.

  • Ah! I cant look. *covers eyes* very unique tradition though.

  • If the blacksmith is having a bad day, you'll know by him coming out of his hut and yelling "Who the fuck wants to get initiated".

  • i wana cut up a baby's face!

  • @bmxmatty1 cut your own face you sicko

  • Why would someone want to cut a child's face like that? That's stupid

  • @PhillipJBurton88 your culturaly blinded. im sure they think nuking cities is stupid too.

  • @PhillipJBurton88 its called culture something that white people don't have

  • @Oyeena still dumb though

  • @Oyeena shut the fuck up we have culture were just not animals practicing shit like this

  • @PhillipJBurton88 you're stupid, you dont respect these rituals. they've been around for hundreds of years, what rituals in america do we have? oh yea thats right, fucking nothing. its there culture not yours

  • @screamokid7201 are you finished?

  • @screamokid7201 Dude, shut the fuck up. Why would anyone respect this beyond disturbing thing? The kid was FUCKING LIKE 3, and they cut his face. You would have to be a fucking moron to "respect" this kind of shit. These things are animals, they arent even human. I know understand why people are so racist and call black people inhumane.

  • @ilovenykel

    i know how u feel, but u just got to respect what they believe in. wad do u intend to do after watchg this video, go to africa and prevent this from happening again?

  • @Sir047 You have got to be fucking kidding me. You have GOT to be FUCKING kidding me. Did you just tell me to respect these dim witted baboons? Im not even gonna bother to write a long response about how fucking retarded you sound. Giving someone repect is a big thing, why should i waste it on giving it to them. Please, i cant belive you serious.. Obviously i cant do shit to change thier uncivlized ways, but i will insults these niggers.

  • @ilovenykel

    Just by looking at how u replied, the words u used, it clearly defines what kind of person you are.(:

    you have you own view and i have mine. period.

  • @Sir047 oh pease. Dont start with this bullshit. It pisses me the fuck off. If you think im racist cause i said nigger, then you need to stop judging and look beyonds the words. Things i said came out of anger, dont fucking act like you know what kind of person i am. Because um..*snezzes*...im allergic to bullshit. And yup, we have diff views. I said my view at first, you didnt have to comment on it. Bitch.

  • @ilovenykel

    funny. why do u assume that i think you're a racist? do u have prove to support your statement? i feel pity for u because u can't control ur emotions. u cant control ur emotions till the words u type are really vulgar. I have my own will to comment and reply your view. you wanna stop me? u can try.(:

  • @Sir047 Are you done?

  • @ilovenykel

    i am almost there. are u?

  • @PhillipJBurton88 its not stupid, its a culture you dont understand

  • @PhillipJBurton88 It's like circumcising them.

  • cutting an adult as a rite of passage i can deal with but the child.........................­...... i couldnt even bring myself to watch it. i dont know? it mite just be me being a soft thinking westerner.....i couldnt put my children though that

  • no

  • alex

  • woww! that's gotta hurt !

  • that seems actually quite relaxing. lying under a tree on cozy leaves, awesome. the cuts, i dont really mind them. i have recived way worse cuts than those painless scrapes, and felt nothing. but the bullet ant one is just brutal.

  • 0:43, now thats a big ass mouth ... LOL

  • Anyone who submits their child to scarification is a terrible parent, plain and simple. If you would gladly hand your child over to the town blacksmith to have him carve into his face for an hour, you shouldn't be allowed near a child.

  • @davethehostage you dont understand because your not a part of there culture, its the same as what most americans do, they scare there children into beleving in fairy tales or facing eternal damnation, which is emotinal scarring

  • @realliferocky I don't condone the religious indoctrination of children either. And no matter where a culture is placed geographically, no one is exempt from basic human decency. You do not hand your screaming infant over to a man with a knife and allow him to scar its skin simply because it's a "sacred tradition". If you stand by that, dear sir, you are insane.

  • @davethehostage i dont stand by this at all, im simply offering an understanding for there ignorance

  • @realliferocky Well, I'm sure it's somewhat based on religious practices.

  • wtf 1:13 to 1:15

  • hahaha if my friend constantly called me crybaby, i wouldnt scar myself! i would just be like fuck u!

  • Diseases don't originate from africa, I know all people are different, but in my opinion this is ridiculous, a child? Time to live in houses and take showers, sanitary? Come on man....I'm black but I don't agree with this shit...

  • That must really, really burn!

  • god... to think that i cried at my baptism

  • 0:31 a deformed penis on hes belly ?

  • I'd get plastered first! :D

  • that's how you get aids

  • WEIRD WORLD!!!!!!!!!!..everytime we think we know everything in this earth..we see shocking things!!!!..

  • lol that looks sanitary no wonder every fucking disease originates from there.

  • @icedragonSg There is a lot of diseases in Africa because it is a hot country, and bacteria thrives in heat. And no, every disease doesn't originate from there, Humans do

  • @joe78010 You're an idiot. Heat has nothing to do with their high rate of disease. Aids does not go away no matter what the heat is. Fucking idiot.

  • I wonder why people would call them emo of this is their tradition

  • Je m'excuse mais c'est vraiment barbare de continuer de telles traditions !!! Franchement ! Je suis enseignante et j'ai déjà vu que l'une de mes élèves se mutilait et jcrois vraiment pas que c'Est un beau rituel ! Loin de là ! Se mutiler de la sorte pour avoir supposément l'air plus "homme" c'est complètement irréel ! Quelle est la beauté et le plaisir de blesser quelqu'un comme ça en le saignant à froid comme un animal ?! C'est vraiment stupide !!!

  • I find scarification beautiful. I also believe in cultures preserving their traditions. The rite of passage is important - however, I believe blood rites such as these, should by undertaken IF you are old enough to understand what is happening and why, and that you give consent, on your own, and without coercion. That baby? Oh HELL NO! Cut yourself all you want, but cutting that child is straight up brutality, and I don't give a fuck how you look at it, that's just wrong.

  • @hamstergirl4444

    I'm not sure how I feel about cutting the child...I mean, if you look at it, piercing a baby's ears is acceptable in our culture (as well as many) but technically that's mutilation without their consent...

  • @hamstergirl4444 You're such a self rightous pusssie.

  • @hamstergirl4444 these black savages should be killed thats all there is to it..

  • @hamstergirl4444 and they think that you preaching bullshit on the internet is brutality...why judge a tradition they've been doing for thousands of years?

  • @hamstergirl4444 well put, the new world needs to constantly (and respectively) push the 3rd towards civility

  • I think they're beautiful. In our (north american) culture there isn't a coming of age initiation, one day you are just supposed to wake up and be grown up. Something like this is symbolic and physical and painful, it is a trial to test your strength and resolve.

  • I WOULD HATE TO LIVE IN AFRICA. 

  • that pregnant womans stomach was awesome!

  • I paid 300 bucks for this ..back of my body

  • this is why tribal people will always be stronger than occidental people

  • fuck. FUCK. FUCK!! I CANT WATCH THIS ANYMORE! FUCK!

  • oh my god! poor little boy!

  • beautiful

  • Are you fucking kidding me ?! This is 2 much !

  • This isn't so bad

    Not something I'd do but it's not the most painful tradition I've seen or unhealthiest

  • hee is a massive cunt

  • Give them another 2000 years and maybe they will start building houses that's not made out of elephant poo, just wait =)

  • im African American and i dont know crap about my ancestors.

    i would like to go through this.

  • A great philosopher once said that "Life is pain".What better way to come into your man/womanhood than to endure physical pain? Life shall be painful,full of sacrifice,hardships,and trails...why not start early and teach a child how to endure pain?Its brilliant.And anyone who thinks that this is horrible etc. needs to stop.Most of all pirce your chils ear at 8 months etc.Theres no difference.Tis is just more extremal. Or circumcision.So stfu. Its their culture.Dont disrespect it.

  • That is f#@king horrible what they did to that boy!! hes only a child and doesnt understand their stupid traditions.. he only understands the pain. EVOLVE ALREADY!!

  • @25det thats really ignorant...its their culture and telling them to evolve isnt cool

  • @LaurenisinWonderland get laid whore, these fuckin primates massacre each other, including their kids as part of this culture that you want to defend, imagine if your parents held you down and cut pieces of skin from you when you were 5 years old, would you fight back or just lay there and accept your culture? dumb bitch

  • people have to under stand it happens in EVERY culture we in america circumcise children the only thing they need is gloves and proper medical equipment

  • In Western world, when woman has difficulty to get pregant surgeon pricks the uterus(scarifies) to WAKE up part of BRAIN that orders body to have menstrual periods, ovulation etc to get into action. Later, woman starts having periods again and after ovulation, pregnancy follows. Likewise, border between growing as homosexual or heterosexual is VAGUE so brain must get the RIGHT message about DIRECTION to follow. All is connected and ignorance is what makes people laugh at African KNOWLEDGE.

  • I love this music

  • The cutter does not use gloves!!!

  • Now you can learn the secrets of having a six pack from this fellow :D

  • You people say this is unhuman... but hey tattoos are also painful.

  • ook if the men want it one, watever. but the little kids? not cool. And no gloves? That aint y aids is spreadin so fast or anything

  • i can understand the guy who wants the scarification but not hte kid

  • Why are you discussing circumcision? This video is not about it.

  • @kate51035 : It's the same thing, yet somehow perfectly acceptable. Hypocrites!

  • Poor baby :( That's really sad and pretty sick.

  • @neon471 YOU RIGHT SAD AN INCREDIBLY SICK THAT POOR CHILD HE WAS KICKING AN SCREAMING BEFORE THE PROCESS EVEN BEGAN HE COULD SENSE SOME HORRIFYING WAS ABOUT TO OCCUR.

  • This is completely unbelievable, and unappropriate!!!

  • wtf these people crazy poor kid

  • it's like tattoos i guess. I don't really think they should do this to a child but if the adult wants to get it go ahead. I mean i know ppl who pays to get scarification. It's not something only done in africa now.

  • the kid sounded like a pig.

    but i also screamed like that.

  • @OctobersLeaf its their culture....that was really ignorant to say

  • id rather have my forehead scarified than have my parents beat me up in my child and adolescent years for not going to church every sunday id rather have my forehead scarified than having to kill myself blowing up buildings to go to heaven you know what fuck religion!!!!

  • You're an ignorant person, These people have been doing this for thousands of years. Thats just their way of life.

  • Oh so I'm the ignorant one! Really? Tell me then, what do you say to the tribes that hold down little girls and slice up their genitals with rusty tools? They've been doing it for years, it's part of their culture, intrinsic to their beliefs. What do you say to them? If you think the forced mutilation of children is a tradition that is worth preserving you are utterly delusional. It is THESE people who are ignorant, not me.

  • i bet you believe in god too don't you?

  • How did you come to that conclusion?

  • i don't think it matters does it?

  • Of course it does, because you've just assumed something that's completely untrue.

  • idk. you probably said something gay.

  • Gay? What, like "these people are ignorant and cutting up tiny defenceless children is wrong". Was that gay?

    You sound like a bit of a moron.

  • yeah. that's what you said. yeah, that's gay. it's their tradition and who in the fuck are you to tell them how to send their children on rights of passage? i don't think you have any authority on that matter. you sound like a bit of a close minded douche bag who thinks your methods and lifestyles are smart and normal and anything else is wrong.

  • Right, so you support female circumcision then? I mean it's tradition. Who are we to enlighten cultures that have yet to invent the wheel? I'm sure to them, the little girl's screams of agony are simply evil demons being banished into oblivion. What an optmimistic way of negating her pain.

    It's funny how we feel obliged to throw the fruits of our development to these people by way of aid, yet objecting to the unecessary suffering of children that they inflict is somehow beligerant and wrong.

  • i think we should leave them alone. they're all stupid, but that's just them. it's their culture. we circumcise men everyday. every single male born is circumcised. are we crazy? i don't care what other people do. it's none of my or your business

  • Dont get me started on routine male circumcision. It's irrational and unecessary. Thankfully it's not practiced in Ireland.

    I'm more of a "his/her body, his/her choice" kind of person. If adults want to mutilate themselves having been made aware of the risks, let them, but why force it on children too young to consent? You don't think it's worth it? That's dissapointing, but fair enough.

  • because foreskin is nasty and it gets gross if you don't fucking maintain it. i don't have to maintain my circumcised dick. i don't want to have to go with the pain of having my dick cut up when i can just have it done as a child. who is upset that they don't have foreskin? that's a complaint i haven't yet heard.

  • I've had a foreskin for the last 24 years and I have never had a problem with keeping it clean. It's not hard to maintain at all. There are actually a great number of men who were circumcised both as infants and adults who regret not having a foreskin. Nature put it there for a reason. It has a protective and a sexual function, just like the clitoral hood, but we don't go cutting up the vaginas of baby girls.

  • it's gross looking. i can't even watch a porn if the guy has a gross ass uncircumcised dick. nature also put hair on our heads but we cut it off don't we? what about our fingernails? who would want to have a foreskin? i don't believe that statistic at all

  • You seem to be unaware that approx 80% of the world's male populace are not circumcised. Circumcision is not the norm and even in America rates are steadily dropping. The current generation of new borns have about a 50/50 ratio of cut vs intact.

    You think it's gross because that's what you've been conditioned to believe. I have seen many bad circumcisions in my time; ugly bumpy scar tissue, skin adhesions etc. Some men complain of discomfort due to tightness of the skin.

  • Y'know there are tribes in Africa where a woman won't find a husband unless she has been circumcised. These men have been conditioned to believe that a surgically altered vulva is the aesthetic just like you have been led to see the cut penis as the norm.

  • no, circumcised dicks just look better to me. they look gross. i haven't been conditioned for that. i just don't think they look right. and once again, i don't believe your statistics. it seems like a lot of made up shit to me.

  • What's gross about it? Is it anymore gross than the vagina? Besides, intact penises look exactly the same as circumcised ones when they're erect and the skin retracts.

    And no, those statistics are not bullshit. Just Google "circumcision rates" in North America, you'll get a history of the gradual decline in the trend. When the current generation of baby boys grow to be our age they will be changing in a locker room with roughly half circumcised, half not.

  • vaginas look gross too. but the difference is that vaginas feel good. foreskin is all flabby and it just isn't good looking to me. i'm not gay, but i don't like dicks to look worse than vaginas. i googled circumcision rates. like, 81% of america is circumcised. the whole world's ratio brings it down because of all the third world poor countries