Survival in Burma - part three - BBC

[EMO9398]

what do they turn to once they change from the stage?...

Butterfly :D

[hotmamiime]

My heart breaks seeing that poor little child.

[ChaosNova1]

I think I still prefer the fried scorpions instead of the maggots

[philateliceun]

When I watch vids like these I can't help to notice the arrogance of the comments I see. Our western ways of living is not the standard by which everything should be judged. It is just a different way. Maybe more efficient on some levels but not better in anyway. We like white teeth, clean stone houses and good infrastructures. But if you can live without those things how does that make you less in any way? It is just different, something many people can't understand.

[saveburmanowsf]

please...save burma now

you can help

tell someone today about the nightmare happening to the wonderful people inside burma

thank you

[adipresley]

i will help Burma..

[ElayneTrakand]

@adipresley how...don't be ignorant.

[phooobooo]

so sorry for that kid, hope situation is much better now

[sibeguev]

my god, i feel so sorry for that kid.

[adamatova]

But in the beginning of this segment he said the villagers support the rebels. He should just stfu. These poor people are stuck between a rock and a hard place and everyone is sucking them dry including the BBC. I'm sure they paid these villagers handsomely for this exploitation of their lives.

/s

[ThisIsGonnaBeCool]

if you get past the texture, it might not be so bad. as long as they taste fine.

[HeavenlySword3]

I feel sorry for the maggots. They don't deserve this.

[sexluvnpain112]

LMAO

[DarlingDiva209]

this is mostly about the boys help than shoving maggots down ur throat....

[azntranc3951]

well in order to survive, you gota eat so i guess its okay?>

[Jennifer5600]

s-i-c-k I feel sorry for the dude

[ermineermine]

Why--because he chose to be a field reporter instead of a gourmet critic?

[Jennifer5600]

both <=P

[StukovM1g]

Even the US soldiers of World War 2 ate maggots for survival. Be open to ideas and different cultures.

[ecrdab747]

he always says "the food is very nice". Of course, it has to be because he is getting it free

[ermineermine]

Or because of good manners.

[ecrdab747]

of course, of course ! but when you get a free lunch or dinner, courtesy requires you to say that it tastes nice (even though that may not be the case)

[Jennifer5600]

but that's lying =/

[ecrdab747]

No, its not a lie . Have you never tried it ? To taste the food cooked by someone else and to say that it is excellent even though this may not be the case.

[Jennifer5600]

I say it good to be honest cause if they found out that you think it taste nasty and you said it was nice well it hurts more =/

[ecrdab747]

No, darling ! you say "if they find out" - well, thats a big "if"

[Jennifer5600]

I'll stick to the truth but I'll say it in a kind way like "this is not umm good" =/

[ecrdab747]

Of course, sweetheart ! You have the right to express your own views.

[Jennifer5600]

Sweet =)

[ermineermine]

"But"?

That "courtesy" is precisely what is otherwise referred to as "good manners".

[CharmTinkle]

Omg. Warning : Don't watch this video with food inside your mouth if you're lucky.

Ohmygosh. They look more like caterpillers.

Still, It's kinda gross.

Perhaps I'm spoilted.

[csillie]

those actually look pretty good. grasshoppers are great, but those look very clean and white.

yum!

[snake5891]

If they turn into butterflies or moths then they're not maggots but rather caterpillars. Maggots turn into flies.

[qualqui]

Just like my ancestors before the whiteman came to america,...agave worms, ant eggs, fried grasshoppers seasoned with chili,salt and lime juice, the list goes on, we should not write off native ppls. foods as "weird" or "wacko"! Thanx for sharin'and keep up the good work!

[tenebrargenta]

good for you, being proud of your heritage is a very good thing. and i agree, just because you have never eaten it , doesn't mea it is weird or gross. Try it, people have been living off of it longer than people have been living off of convieniance food, these native foods are also better for you than the packaged, processed foods of today :D kudos to you qualqui

[froggymaan]

intresting eating maggots.

[beautifulfighter94]

hmmm....well okay then.....

[Zack220]

Fucking crewl....they could try and kill them quikly before there burnt to death..

[gopherdude]

there maggots..

[pookoos]

you mean, "They're maggots"

[gopherdude]

Actually yes I did mean that thank you.

[ermineermine]

Pardon me, but has it ever occured to the reporter and the editors that in some regions, poverty or no poverty, civil war or no civil war, . . .

insects--eggs, larvae, grown--are delicacies?

[k3ifers]

considering he says "it's a great privilage to be offered these, these are very hard to find and the villages has given them to us to try." i would assume so, it's the bbc, they aren't making fun of what they eat.

[ermineermine]

It's not a matter of making fun, but a question of erroneous assumption.

There are many tribes who subsist mainly on, say, rice and tubers, only occasionally able to have protein from, say, little birds and insects inside fallen trees, even the lone chicken or pig.

That still makes it rare, yes--it does not make the rare occasion something due to hardship brought about by, say, civil war.

. . .

[ermineermine]

If one has seen enough documentaries where people are sent to live among tribes, one cannot possibly miss one cultural trait: hospitality towards guests.

It is the norm to go out and exert extra effort hunting for food to serve to the guest.

My father was an anthropologist--we have visited more than a dozen such tribes across Asia, and another dozen or so in South America.

[ermineermine]

The error committed by the reporter is due to what is called 'ethnocentrism'--the human tendency to interpret something [in another culture] from the viewpoint of one's own.

"1 These are things WE under normal circumstances would not even imagine eating.

"2 The tribesmen themselves say they don't have it everyday.

"3 There is a civil war going on.

"4 THEREFORE they MUST be eating it only because of the hardships of war."

Makes sense to our minds. Nonetheless, not necessarily true.