According to the book "Sex at Dawn", it's the rest of the "civilized" world that has "unusual" sexual practices, in terms of evolutionary history. The Mosou could be an example for the rest of us.
It's amazing how succesful the Chinese communist party is. National Geographic didn't even use the word "Tibetan". Only "southwestern Chinese". Shame. A nation conquered completly.
I agree with you. It is TIBET and NOT CHINA. It is clearly a Tibetan-Buddhist society that is being shown. China has no concept of this kind of individual freedom and man-woman relationship - its all controlled by the state.
@Silvergordikuki Yes, unfortunately it is. So is Nepal these days. AT the Nepal-China border all signage is in Chinese, food and clothes are Chinese. Tons of Hindu and Buddhist temples have been destroyed and Churches mushroomed in their place, which are in league with Maoists in various ways. Tibet's pristine beauty has been marred forever...
@Rukminiji u can see tibetan influence in places like ladakh, certain regions in nepal, and among the balti people in kashmir and northern pakistan....those people aren't all necessarily tibetans but they've adopted tibetan customs and religion because of the centuries old contact those regions had with tibet.
@Rukminiji the musou people aren't ethnic tibetans. they are 2 different ethnic groups. free love is an alien concept in tibetan society too. the reason why the musou pracice tibetan buddhism is because not too long ago(before chinese colonized tibet), tibet was a culturally dominant country...so tibetan buddhism spread to & was adopted by neighboring peoples in regions outside of tibet(hence how the musou came to practice tibetan buddhism).
I agree with you. It is TIBET and NOT CHINA. It is clearly a Tibetan-Buddhist society that is being shown. China has no concept of this kind of individual freedom and man-woman relationship - its all controlled by the state.
@EmperorOfMacedon but the mosuo people aren't ethinc tibetans. they are a separate group from tibetans. the musou only happen to live outside the tibetan border(south-west region of china). the reason they practice tibetan buddhism is because of tibet's dominant cultural influence to regions beyond tibet(for e.g. regions in northern pakistan(balti people), and north india as well as eastern india practice tibetan buddhism but they aren't tibetans. "free love" is not practiced by the tibetans.
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if this is their tradition, then it is a traditional marriage, in the mosuo tradition. though its obviously not a marriage of the western european tradition, in that case its unconventional.
Societies fall apart without matriarchal rule. In a real matriarchal society, there is never any sex unless some sort of deal is made with the male first. If you look at nature, animals in the wild (such as elephants) havean agreement that the male cannot stay with the pack after he impregnates a female, he must go immediately afterwards or the leader of the female pack will gather an attack against him. White women used to have marriage before sex--same thing, just a different agreement.
This and other videos about Yunnan Mosu culture are a good adjunct to the book Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World by Yang Erche Namu & Christine Mathieu
This video describes what is called "polyamory" - a social arrangement in which a man or woman may have multiple spouses. Personally I like the idea of having more than one male - keep you warm at night AND - (fortune cookie say): lucky woman have man in kitchen; other pick up sock, clean window…
Yeahhh, Baby… These be difficult times. The more bread winners the better, especially since men tend to throw themselves around like roosters in a hen house.
It was the norm in western indigenous families to have community raised children...they were not neglected and someone was always there to care for them and they were loved by many Mothers and Fathers...if a woman didn't want to live with a man and wanted to live with another she simply changed tents and made it clear what she wanted if they man didn't like it the community would say for the benefit of all of us let her be and he had to accept her choice tomorrow is another day.
@signingupiseasyd Ask a single mother in the inner city what she thinks of this system. Ask her if she's happier raising the children of many men without much of their physical presence, financial or emotional support.
The video puts a weird spin on it, but matrilineal free love families, living with your kin on your mother's side, were found around the world, if you do some digging. You won't see it on tv movies or school though. In fact, when we were free people this structure would have been the norm, the basic unit of tribal society. Can you think of two good reasons why, in a free society,it would be the woman's brother that would be the natural male guardian of her children, not the biological fathers?
I don't think that the role of "father" is diminished. A child needs parental figures, which don't have to be fulfilled by their biological parents. It seems to me that in this society they have a strong family structure. It is just a superficial comment based on my little knowledge of this culture :)
@o0ItsumoUreshii0o why any man wouldn't wish to raise his own biological children is appalling to me. it's not superficial. it's just how i feel. a child should know their father. he should be an authority in the lives of his own children. i can't imagine a man willingly sitting by and allowing another man to raise his children.
While I do agree that people should take responsibility for their own offspring, I disagree that there is a need for a single biologically related male parent to fulfill the authoritarian role. Who is to say the women can't be authority figures?
@TrojanMuleMCCCXXXVII well my confusion over this particular kind of "free love" has a lot to do with this area being very small and women are having children with several different men within this small community, it just seems like incest would be rampant.
Why does there need to be such a hierachy? It is because your cultural norm dictates so? This kind of society (the one depicted in the video) works fine for them. The simple fact is that children don't NEED a mother AND a father, they only need parental figures. Parental figures could be anyone who legitimately has the well being of the child as their priority.
In what way would a child's Mother and Father (do you mean biological parents? if so, what about adoptive parents?) be better than having seemingly easily substituted family role models from which the child can take much larger samples of good morals and values in the case that any one of these role models may be lacking?
Adoptive parents can be absolutely wonderful parents. Though, a child being given up for adoption is a HEAVY decision. Whether the parent is unable to care for their child or worse, dead; giving that child up is a heavy, usually last ditch decision - not a frivolous one. If a person has a child and is able and fit to take care of that child, they need to do just that. Women don't birth children just to pass them to the man up the street and be done with it.
"Free" trade, and "free" love, are not unrelated. There is little freedom to be found in either, because both attempt to bury the question of freedom to reproduce, either economically, or bio-cognitively as the case may be.
I have had to mirror negative intentions towards me and I am very good at it! 99% of the time, no negative sexual energy will be tolorated by me. I have chose the wrong boyfriends in the past, and can't stand being used negatively anymore. I have always been committed to the sexual relationships that I have had.
I believe the bible is correct on matters of this. I think that sex should be in a committed relationship. The fruits of the sexually union should be examined to see if it is a positive union. Sexually transmitted diseases are a product of promiscuity,and sexually perversions!!!!!!
I think that it is the intention of the sexual act that is to be considered. To loan out ones husband to concieve a child when there is a baren wife can be an ordained gift of God.
I did a research project on this for an Anthropology course. It's really neat. It just shows how marriage and relationships are socially constructed ideas. There is no right or wrong way to be in a relationship as some would like us to believe. Nothing is normal so nothing can be strange.
Hell yeah! I'm a Forensic Anthro. Major and I've taken multiple Cultural Anthropology courses and they are extremely fascinating... It's amazing how society constructs it's standards for people to live by.
those guys arent muslims, theyre kinda like imposters. they grew up with muslims so they use that die for islam thingy as an exuse to blow them selfs up, which is werid cuz islam forbids suicide. 0.o
ew years ago, two parents went out for dinner. A few hours later, the babysitter was calling to ask if she could cover up the clown statue in the kids' room, the father said,"Take the kids and get out of the house. We'll call the police, we don't have a clown statue." The "clown statue" is really a killer that escaped from jail. If you don't post this letter on to 10 videos tonight, the clown will be in your bed at 3:00 am with a chainsaw in his hand;sorry i didnt want that happening to
hahah yeah ! 9 people working hard! then it is really easy.... damn In America we said ten people working (surely 3 of them goofing off) and maybe we we will finish
Well it's the first time I'm meeting a man whore. Good luck trying to marry them.
P.S I wasn't trying to tell anyone how to live did I say they shouldn't do this or that. God learn to read instead of adding stuff that aren't true MAN WHORE n_~
Look at the Chimpanzee and Bonobo. Chimpanzee society is chaotic, war-like and killing while in Bonobo society(matriarchal), it's freelove, quiet, peaceful and etc...
Matriarch is the form of ancient society. Look at elephant herd, lion herd.. females are the strongest of all. female bears are the strongest. In China, most ethnic groups are name after their elegant, ancient, beautiful, batik, embroidery clothes... these clothes are made only by women. There are still some matriarchal society around the world - oceania, some pacific islander groups.
guess what Dumbass, of course to me it's silly, but I never said anything was wrong with it ok? fuck off, and guess what thats what a whole lot of people will say if they saw this too.
maybe we only need to document history because we repeat mistakes all the time :) otherwise I think our point of valuing difference is absolutely to support.
This is a bit silly...I would never like a man who want to have more then one wife.
They can do what they want, I won't say anything, in islam a Man is allowed to have more then one wife**4 is the limit** the women don't have to be with them unless they want to. **Women are only allowed one man**
they ARE educated. thats why their way of living works. what education ca yyou proof that makes people essentially "better" or more happy without artificial entertainment ? I wouldnt accept a second lover , but that is build up in society, fear of loss etc. it is not a better education, basically. "better education" wiped out entire cultures.
Different ways of life, work for different peoples. Ethnicity, Culture and Religion play major roles in a people's outlook on many things, including sexuality. You're way isn't the only way, nor the best way. Ignorence is poison, knowledge is sustenence.
The idea that western traditional marriage is the way we all need to live is silly. Even western strong Christians usually fail to live in a one-man-one woman lifestyle, about half of marriages end in divorce, and many others involve cheating.
This group is open and honest about their relationships and their family life.
@JohnDeBunkTest. marriage end mostly in divorce b/c of divorce laws that favor women who hence do most of the divorcing. if divorce laws were more balanced as in a women who starts a divorce cant get anything from the man less divorce will occur and people will try to work it out. i mean why stay with a man if u can divorce him and possibly get more money from him without doing any wife duties. cohabitiation is for men what divorce is for women under this system.
meh, some fail some stay strong, it is not the religion that has anything to do with it (unless there is some strain between people of different religion) my church has a mixture......marriage can help and or hurt it all depends on the couple
@JohnDeBunkTest Free love looks great for men, terrible for women! Call me old fashioned but it looks like the women get the short end of the stick in this deal. The man gets to move on but the woman has the raise the children by herself. That may be paradise for a man but from the perspective of a woman who knows that there are other ways to structure society to give women more support, this system has no appeal.
@artsylovelylady Women are not raising children by themselves, male relatives of the household take part in child rearing. So if, for example, biological father or mother die, a child will be taken care of by extended family
@artsylovelylady Women are not raising children by themselves, male relatives of the household take part in child rearing. So if, for example, biological father or mother dies, a child will be taken care of by extended family
@alia284 OMG, that's such wishful thinking. You assume all single mothers have enough support from their extended families to make up for the loss of a father. Go down to a jail and talk to some of the inmates there who grew up without a father and with only a struggling mother who worked the night shift. There are generations of struggling single mothers in the ghetto with no male support. Ask a social worker who well free love lifestyle has worked for women left holding the bag in the ghetto.
"Superior species" wtf is that?Birds?Wolfs?they are usually monogamic, yes.But hey, we are primates.And primates are usually not monogamic(chimp, orangutans, bonobos).Quite the oposite, the males usually have lots of females.
"Superior species" " Inferior Species"...Superior is the one that fits your cultural standarts, and inferior the ones who dont.
Aids:China is having quite a problem with AIDS too.All they need to do is use conddom,dumb ass.
Similar relationship appeared in ancient Japan(Heian Period), but people still got married. Though it seems that multiple partnership was only allowed for men after marriage, but not for women.
with a watermelon and mind this video has no imac values with photo booth crap camera and an ipod phone guitar power guitar power guitar pick with a touch screen guitar and an a for duck.
Social structures are so strange. All around the world its either sex, power or money that creates and regulates social constructs. I think the Amish are the only ones who probably have the most healthy culture. ~Raven
The Amish, you're talking about, right? The Chinese certainly don't seem to be rejecting technology. But it's a huge, fascinating country with so much complicated stuff going on. Whao they were/are ahead of their time and it seems like their pressing delete often. The cultural revoutional wasn't so great. The Amish....haha, if they still exist, they're kinda weird, I think.
"In southwest China, one culture allows men and women to have multiple partners."
Erm... Since when having MULTIPLE partners is a norm in American society? There are Americans with multiple partners undeniably, but that is unacceptable to most people...
how interresting, I would have thought that they would be more strict, I thought that Asian communities were more strict...I mean this is still kind of strict with the whole having to ask the mother for permission, but this is much more open that I thought it would be...
long time ago, many ethnic groups in China are polygamous and are matriarchal society.. now many adopted the chinese patriarchal society which is why you don't see this anymore. jealousy was never part of ancient ethnic people living in china but now it is. long ago, open marriages were cultural stuff... it doesn't mean you can do whatever, you have rules to follow as well.
Funny how it is viewed by most as complete opposite here in the U.S. People look down on you and think you have something less if you are not married. Because of tradition being taught as fact or the only thing taught, you can't even date 70to80% of the population if you don't want to marry!
It's great to see that people are permitted to define the structure of their relationships in some countries. As long as no ones rights are violated, it would be nice to see individuals defining the terms and structure of their relationship here. It is unfortunate that the US still imposes restrictions on something so fundamentally personal and private. I doubt that we'll be seeing paperwork with multiple lines for "spouse" any time in the near future.
CharlesVarney, I still suspect they're restrictive in this village. Just in a different way. What if they want to form a monogamous union? What if the father wants custody of the children instead of the mother? What about gays... and gay adoption? Or any other adoption issues?
I'm sure there are plenty of things they discriminate against. I really wouldn't be surprised. I doubt you'd be able to find a society that truly allows you to define your maritial and/or family structure freely.
Crio3mo: I can imagine that monogamy would be simple as long as both parties in the relationship agreed to keep it that way. Though, instances of "cheating" would probably be less as they would be free to discuss it openly before entering into the relationship. As for homosexual relationships, I do not recall hearing them mentioned in the video. Bisexuality would probably be more common though, as it would still allow for relationships resulting in children. Record keeping is a must.
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According to the book "Sex at Dawn", it's the rest of the "civilized" world that has "unusual" sexual practices, in terms of evolutionary history. The Mosou could be an example for the rest of us.
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sanddreams0 2 weeks ago
These are the Mosou tribal people
1NX9 3 months ago
Free love is the way it should be
AnarchoSyndicalistt 4 months ago 4
wouldnt incest happen really easily if they do that???
allboutnail 4 months ago
It's amazing how succesful the Chinese communist party is. National Geographic didn't even use the word "Tibetan". Only "southwestern Chinese". Shame. A nation conquered completly.
EmperorOfMacedon 5 months ago 2
@EmperorOfMacedon there's 50+ minorities .. you sure these are tibetan?
Wendy510 5 months ago
@EmperorOfMacedon
I agree with you. It is TIBET and NOT CHINA. It is clearly a Tibetan-Buddhist society that is being shown. China has no concept of this kind of individual freedom and man-woman relationship - its all controlled by the state.
Rukminiji 3 months ago
@Rukminiji But isn't Tibet (unfortunately) controlled by China?
Silvergordikuki 3 months ago
@Silvergordikuki Yes, unfortunately it is. So is Nepal these days. AT the Nepal-China border all signage is in Chinese, food and clothes are Chinese. Tons of Hindu and Buddhist temples have been destroyed and Churches mushroomed in their place, which are in league with Maoists in various ways. Tibet's pristine beauty has been marred forever...
Rukminiji 3 months ago
@Rukminiji u can see tibetan influence in places like ladakh, certain regions in nepal, and among the balti people in kashmir and northern pakistan....those people aren't all necessarily tibetans but they've adopted tibetan customs and religion because of the centuries old contact those regions had with tibet.
heomak 3 months ago
@Rukminiji the musou people aren't ethnic tibetans. they are 2 different ethnic groups. free love is an alien concept in tibetan society too. the reason why the musou pracice tibetan buddhism is because not too long ago(before chinese colonized tibet), tibet was a culturally dominant country...so tibetan buddhism spread to & was adopted by neighboring peoples in regions outside of tibet(hence how the musou came to practice tibetan buddhism).
heomak 3 months ago
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I agree with you. It is TIBET and NOT CHINA. It is clearly a Tibetan-Buddhist society that is being shown. China has no concept of this kind of individual freedom and man-woman relationship - its all controlled by the state.
Rukminiji 3 months ago
@EmperorOfMacedon but the mosuo people aren't ethinc tibetans. they are a separate group from tibetans. the musou only happen to live outside the tibetan border(south-west region of china). the reason they practice tibetan buddhism is because of tibet's dominant cultural influence to regions beyond tibet(for e.g. regions in northern pakistan(balti people), and north india as well as eastern india practice tibetan buddhism but they aren't tibetans. "free love" is not practiced by the tibetans.
heomak 3 months ago
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DemianHermann 5 months ago
Their daughter is adorable!
ImJustBeautifulMee 6 months ago
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m1dFlorin 6 months ago
if a system works then system is acceptable
1mehra 6 months ago
if this is their tradition, then it is a traditional marriage, in the mosuo tradition. though its obviously not a marriage of the western european tradition, in that case its unconventional.
Analyst 6 months ago 2
So this means that the guy could hook up with that grandma in brightly coloured cloth...very nicely set up culture :D
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Societies fall apart without matriarchal rule. In a real matriarchal society, there is never any sex unless some sort of deal is made with the male first. If you look at nature, animals in the wild (such as elephants) havean agreement that the male cannot stay with the pack after he impregnates a female, he must go immediately afterwards or the leader of the female pack will gather an attack against him. White women used to have marriage before sex--same thing, just a different agreement.
Jim777ism 8 months ago
This and other videos about Yunnan Mosu culture are a good adjunct to the book Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World by Yang Erche Namu & Christine Mathieu
domesticathlete 9 months ago
I lol'd at the man at the door with a knife, hahaha that's pretty fuckin' scary if you ask me. Seems to me he doesn't understand sarcasm.
CharlotteKM 10 months ago 2
This video describes what is called "polyamory" - a social arrangement in which a man or woman may have multiple spouses. Personally I like the idea of having more than one male - keep you warm at night AND - (fortune cookie say): lucky woman have man in kitchen; other pick up sock, clean window…
999yullan 11 months ago
@999yullan Three words, YOU - FUCKING - WISH
kdlt235 11 months ago
@kdlt235
Yeahhh, Baby… These be difficult times. The more bread winners the better, especially since men tend to throw themselves around like roosters in a hen house.
999yullan 11 months ago
Good luck to them. As long as they are happy!
MercedesMerv 11 months ago
It was the norm in western indigenous families to have community raised children...they were not neglected and someone was always there to care for them and they were loved by many Mothers and Fathers...if a woman didn't want to live with a man and wanted to live with another she simply changed tents and made it clear what she wanted if they man didn't like it the community would say for the benefit of all of us let her be and he had to accept her choice tomorrow is another day.
cymbeli 11 months ago
The Mosou
1NX9 11 months ago
Interesting! Nice to see a matrilineal society. I think it can make women happier. All the best.
signingupiseasyd 1 year ago
@signingupiseasyd Ask a single mother in the inner city what she thinks of this system. Ask her if she's happier raising the children of many men without much of their physical presence, financial or emotional support.
artsylovelylady 10 months ago
@artsylovelylady Yes, that's true. Maybe cultural context is important, also.
signingupiseasyd 10 months ago
jiba means dick
44PI3 1 year ago
The video puts a weird spin on it, but matrilineal free love families, living with your kin on your mother's side, were found around the world, if you do some digging. You won't see it on tv movies or school though. In fact, when we were free people this structure would have been the norm, the basic unit of tribal society. Can you think of two good reasons why, in a free society,it would be the woman's brother that would be the natural male guardian of her children, not the biological fathers?
jackauffe 1 year ago
ah this sounds like a cool thing to practice...... :O
coveruplies 1 year ago
It's sad that alot of the children don't have much contact with their fathers. :(
sologratia1 1 year ago
that's unfortunate that the role of father is so diminished in this culture.
o0katiekins0o 1 year ago
I don't think that the role of "father" is diminished. A child needs parental figures, which don't have to be fulfilled by their biological parents. It seems to me that in this society they have a strong family structure. It is just a superficial comment based on my little knowledge of this culture :)
o0ItsumoUreshii0o 1 year ago
@o0ItsumoUreshii0o why any man wouldn't wish to raise his own biological children is appalling to me. it's not superficial. it's just how i feel. a child should know their father. he should be an authority in the lives of his own children. i can't imagine a man willingly sitting by and allowing another man to raise his children.
o0katiekins0o 1 year ago
@o0katiekins0o
While I do agree that people should take responsibility for their own offspring, I disagree that there is a need for a single biologically related male parent to fulfill the authoritarian role. Who is to say the women can't be authority figures?
TrojanMuleMCCCXXXVII 1 year ago
@TrojanMuleMCCCXXXVII well my confusion over this particular kind of "free love" has a lot to do with this area being very small and women are having children with several different men within this small community, it just seems like incest would be rampant.
o0katiekins0o 1 year ago
@TrojanMuleMCCCXXXVII
Both the male and the female should be authoritarian to the child, but the hierarchy should still go: Father, Mother.
trenton9 1 year ago
@trenton9
Why does there need to be such a hierachy? It is because your cultural norm dictates so? This kind of society (the one depicted in the video) works fine for them. The simple fact is that children don't NEED a mother AND a father, they only need parental figures. Parental figures could be anyone who legitimately has the well being of the child as their priority.
TrojanMuleMCCCXXXVII 10 months ago
@TrojanMuleMCCCXXXVII
We don't NEED two legs to survive either. Heck, we could even have someone else's legs grafted onto our stubs, but we'd be better off with our own.
trenton9 9 months ago
@trenton9
In what way would a child's Mother and Father (do you mean biological parents? if so, what about adoptive parents?) be better than having seemingly easily substituted family role models from which the child can take much larger samples of good morals and values in the case that any one of these role models may be lacking?
SheepRCool17 9 months ago
@SheepRCool17
Adoptive parents can be absolutely wonderful parents. Though, a child being given up for adoption is a HEAVY decision. Whether the parent is unable to care for their child or worse, dead; giving that child up is a heavy, usually last ditch decision - not a frivolous one. If a person has a child and is able and fit to take care of that child, they need to do just that. Women don't birth children just to pass them to the man up the street and be done with it.
trenton9 9 months ago
@trenton9 Thanks for the reply! but I think you missed my main question:
I wasn't focused on adoptive parents. I was asking about the culture in this video's style of living.
SheepRCool17 9 months ago
Matriarchy Society - very practical why of thinking !
Not strange - strange is to believe the opposite !
Ganeschar 1 year ago 8
Yunnan
Psycatalyst 1 year ago
Surya, i love you.... do you love me? will you marry me?
JessicaCabangonay 2 years ago
complicated
ToudaHell 2 years ago
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Very strange.
cryonyits07done 2 years ago
Very strange.
cryonyits07done 2 years ago
Very strange.
MultiAfan 2 years ago
Very strage.
MultiAfan 2 years ago
i love the music :)
borntopaz 2 years ago
"Free" trade, and "free" love, are not unrelated. There is little freedom to be found in either, because both attempt to bury the question of freedom to reproduce, either economically, or bio-cognitively as the case may be.
lightbeyondthedark 2 years ago
They seem to be happy.
TruongTrieu 3 years ago 4
I have had to mirror negative intentions towards me and I am very good at it! 99% of the time, no negative sexual energy will be tolorated by me. I have chose the wrong boyfriends in the past, and can't stand being used negatively anymore. I have always been committed to the sexual relationships that I have had.
Raphaelz1 3 years ago
I believe the bible is correct on matters of this. I think that sex should be in a committed relationship. The fruits of the sexually union should be examined to see if it is a positive union. Sexually transmitted diseases are a product of promiscuity,and sexually perversions!!!!!!
Raphaelz1 3 years ago
I think that it is the intention of the sexual act that is to be considered. To loan out ones husband to concieve a child when there is a baren wife can be an ordained gift of God.
Raphaelz1 3 years ago
whoa.. when did YOU become beautiful? (wtf!)
cinloykko 3 years ago
are there homosexuals in this culture? (of course there are - but is it socially acknowledged?)
Utuber709 3 years ago
Very nice. Now I can finally look forward to meeting a few nice Chinese girls and settling down in the country.
EnkiDestro 3 years ago
I did a research project on this for an Anthropology course. It's really neat. It just shows how marriage and relationships are socially constructed ideas. There is no right or wrong way to be in a relationship as some would like us to believe. Nothing is normal so nothing can be strange.
jaystreete 3 years ago 7
Hell yeah! I'm a Forensic Anthro. Major and I've taken multiple Cultural Anthropology courses and they are extremely fascinating... It's amazing how society constructs it's standards for people to live by.
BlackFlag1895 3 years ago 3
valentines must be a bitch!
barakiji 3 years ago 57
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
eeeerrriin 3 years ago 4
those guys arent muslims, theyre kinda like imposters. they grew up with muslims so they use that die for islam thingy as an exuse to blow them selfs up, which is werid cuz islam forbids suicide. 0.o
BeNGALi4LFE 3 years ago 2
That guy sounded more like a rapist than am invited guest. "I pry her door with my knife." LOL.
khemaradsobai 3 years ago 26
haha thats wut i was thinkin...they should have door knobs. lol
BeNGALi4LFE 3 years ago
@khemaradsobai if a pretty girl pryed your door with a knife, what would you do?
tubxyoob 4 months ago
@khemaradsobai if a pretty girl pryed your door with a knife, what would you do?
tubxyoob 4 months ago
@tubxyoob
Does she look like Linda Blair from the move "The Exorcist"?
1NX9 3 months ago
I don't see the Problem, looks way more fun then monogamy(^^)Besides, they're happy. Isn't that what marrige is all about?
ginkiba3 3 years ago 8
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ew years ago, two parents went out for dinner. A few hours later, the babysitter was calling to ask if she could cover up the clown statue in the kids' room, the father said,"Take the kids and get out of the house. We'll call the police, we don't have a clown statue." The "clown statue" is really a killer that escaped from jail. If you don't post this letter on to 10 videos tonight, the clown will be in your bed at 3:00 am with a chainsaw in his hand;sorry i didnt want that happening to
prankbrothers 3 years ago
that baby was really cute.
idgirl97 3 years ago 4
if there are 9 people working hard then it is really easy... HAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHHAHAHH!!!! THIS MADE ME PISS MY PANTS
allth3s4me 3 years ago 3
hahah yeah ! 9 people working hard! then it is really easy.... damn In America we said ten people working (surely 3 of them goofing off) and maybe we we will finish
gerrylebeau 3 years ago
I never ment the multi couple thing you asshole I meant the fact you video taped yout girl friends fighting*:P
shojobeat101 3 years ago
Blah blah blah!!! Sorry I'm not an adult ok? You can't expect 15 year old to see the world like you do.
shojobeat101 3 years ago
I'm not a perv ok**sticks tounge** watch them your selves. And also only a loser films them selves. now stop talking to me too DumbASS
shojobeat101 3 years ago
Blah blah blah...**:P get a life loser!!!**
shojobeat101 3 years ago
Well it's the first time I'm meeting a man whore. Good luck trying to marry them.
P.S I wasn't trying to tell anyone how to live did I say they shouldn't do this or that. God learn to read instead of adding stuff that aren't true MAN WHORE n_~
shojobeat101 3 years ago
I guess it works for them. That being said, I couldn't do it! I wouldn't want to share my guy with other women.
beckoninglight16 3 years ago
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Sluts!
yellowman88 3 years ago
Look at the Chimpanzee and Bonobo. Chimpanzee society is chaotic, war-like and killing while in Bonobo society(matriarchal), it's freelove, quiet, peaceful and etc...
Christian, Islam = SEXISM = cult
niamtxiv 3 years ago
I don't know about you but last time I checked I wasn't a monkey.
Paul7596 3 years ago
Matriarch is the form of ancient society. Look at elephant herd, lion herd.. females are the strongest of all. female bears are the strongest. In China, most ethnic groups are name after their elegant, ancient, beautiful, batik, embroidery clothes... these clothes are made only by women. There are still some matriarchal society around the world - oceania, some pacific islander groups.
niamtxiv 3 years ago 3
this explains why china is so overpopulated
spitgiezer 3 years ago
So basically the guy and gal can have as many partners as they like within the village.
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ZB90 3 years ago
guess what Dumbass, of course to me it's silly, but I never said anything was wrong with it ok? fuck off, and guess what thats what a whole lot of people will say if they saw this too.
shojobeat101 3 years ago
Although I disagree with some of these people... Dumbazz is right(haha).
If we were all the same, there would be no reason to document history.
pavoloco 3 years ago
maybe we only need to document history because we repeat mistakes all the time :) otherwise I think our point of valuing difference is absolutely to support.
lezvarthok 3 years ago
It's like the worker serves its queen. Cool.
fasdl 3 years ago
It's like every fight for womans right is as wasted as humans are equally egoistic. uncool :)
lezvarthok 3 years ago
This is a bit silly...I would never like a man who want to have more then one wife.
They can do what they want, I won't say anything, in islam a Man is allowed to have more then one wife**4 is the limit** the women don't have to be with them unless they want to. **Women are only allowed one man**
shojobeat101 3 years ago
in islam a man is only allowed to have more then one wife if he has enough money to support them all evenely, so many just stick to the one
TRIPLExH 3 years ago
These people need to get educated
Ecuapana 3 years ago
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HolyShitBatman3000 3 years ago
they ARE educated. thats why their way of living works. what education ca yyou proof that makes people essentially "better" or more happy without artificial entertainment ? I wouldnt accept a second lover , but that is build up in society, fear of loss etc. it is not a better education, basically. "better education" wiped out entire cultures.
lezvarthok 3 years ago
Different ways of life, work for different peoples. Ethnicity, Culture and Religion play major roles in a people's outlook on many things, including sexuality. You're way isn't the only way, nor the best way. Ignorence is poison, knowledge is sustenence.
ginkiba3 3 years ago 12
Isn't this in Tibet?
LoveLiveLife2008 3 years ago
The idea that western traditional marriage is the way we all need to live is silly. Even western strong Christians usually fail to live in a one-man-one woman lifestyle, about half of marriages end in divorce, and many others involve cheating.
This group is open and honest about their relationships and their family life.
Honesty works in relationships.
JohnDeBunkTest 3 years ago 58
65% of all marriages in western countries end in divore :P
smokey3540 1 year ago
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Ganeschar 1 year ago
@JohnDeBunkTest. marriage end mostly in divorce b/c of divorce laws that favor women who hence do most of the divorcing. if divorce laws were more balanced as in a women who starts a divorce cant get anything from the man less divorce will occur and people will try to work it out. i mean why stay with a man if u can divorce him and possibly get more money from him without doing any wife duties. cohabitiation is for men what divorce is for women under this system.
mykole84 1 year ago 3
@JohnDeBunkTest
meh, some fail some stay strong, it is not the religion that has anything to do with it (unless there is some strain between people of different religion) my church has a mixture......marriage can help and or hurt it all depends on the couple
rent8907 1 year ago
@JohnDeBunkTest Free love looks great for men, terrible for women! Call me old fashioned but it looks like the women get the short end of the stick in this deal. The man gets to move on but the woman has the raise the children by herself. That may be paradise for a man but from the perspective of a woman who knows that there are other ways to structure society to give women more support, this system has no appeal.
artsylovelylady 10 months ago
@artsylovelylady Women are not raising children by themselves, male relatives of the household take part in child rearing. So if, for example, biological father or mother die, a child will be taken care of by extended family
alia284 8 months ago
@artsylovelylady Women are not raising children by themselves, male relatives of the household take part in child rearing. So if, for example, biological father or mother dies, a child will be taken care of by extended family
alia284 8 months ago
@alia284 OMG, that's such wishful thinking. You assume all single mothers have enough support from their extended families to make up for the loss of a father. Go down to a jail and talk to some of the inmates there who grew up without a father and with only a struggling mother who worked the night shift. There are generations of struggling single mothers in the ghetto with no male support. Ask a social worker who well free love lifestyle has worked for women left holding the bag in the ghetto.
artsylovelylady 8 months ago
@artsylovelylady Meant to say, "Ask a social worker how well free love lifestyle has worked for women left holding the bag in the ghetto."
artsylovelylady 8 months ago
@artsylovelylady I meant within Mosuo culture, I was not talking about industrial societies.
alia284 8 months ago
CAN Everyone Please Shut THE HELL UP!!!!
Enjoy differnet cultures and traditions you bunch of arguers!!!
Daritto7117 3 years ago 12
Oh, god, how many closed minded people.
"Superior species" wtf is that?Birds?Wolfs?they are usually monogamic, yes.But hey, we are primates.And primates are usually not monogamic(chimp, orangutans, bonobos).Quite the oposite, the males usually have lots of females.
"Superior species" " Inferior Species"...Superior is the one that fits your cultural standarts, and inferior the ones who dont.
Aids:China is having quite a problem with AIDS too.All they need to do is use conddom,dumb ass.
kupfernikel 3 years ago 5
im moving there.
vaccinefree 3 years ago
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That's what I look for.
Fuck different women, then leave.
They don't know where you live.
And that woman is a bitch, making a trap for that guy.
LovelyYTRocks 3 years ago
Similar relationship appeared in ancient Japan(Heian Period), but people still got married. Though it seems that multiple partnership was only allowed for men after marriage, but not for women.
demitri1011 3 years ago
You're the savages, remember the celtic were nothing but a bunch of savages barbaric people.
niamtxiv 3 years ago
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The women should be stoned, in my village, only men are allowed to have multiple wives!
CraftLulz 3 years ago
you should be stone because you're dumb.
niamtxiv 3 years ago
In your village women would be stoned because they have mutiple partners?
Damn it Islam, why do you kill your own people?
This is why this village is great, there's no religion.
They just have a party in honour of the great harvest.
LovelyYTRocks 3 years ago 2
I'm afraid your wrong. listen in at 1:44. Having a deity implies that they have religion.
ASKaPHYSICIST 3 years ago
Not necessarily... a deity is just an idol. A false one maybe, but dogma determines religion.
pavoloco 3 years ago
Either way, LovelyYTRocks statement was an unfounded assertion.
ASKaPHYSICIST 3 years ago
haha "oh! how did u get so pretty" haha what was she ugly before?!? :S
yellowrubduck 3 years ago 2
with a watermelon and mind this video has no imac values with photo booth crap camera and an ipod phone guitar power guitar power guitar pick with a touch screen guitar and an a for duck.
ROLLERBLADES!!!!
lol first comment
Nothingudontwant 3 years ago
datacore04, dont be a dumbass. You know exactly what they mean and are talking about.
scorpius319 3 years ago
But they'd really be fucking themselves if they walked around naked. Don't they hand-make they're clothes? I dunno.
deepeeeh 3 years ago
Social structures are so strange. All around the world its either sex, power or money that creates and regulates social constructs. I think the Amish are the only ones who probably have the most healthy culture. ~Raven
RadicalComedy 3 years ago
you might be on to something
worldmusicfan 3 years ago
If you recall rejecting technology and keeping your people stupid so they're easier to control a healthy culture, then I suppose you're right.
Bloodthr0e 3 years ago
The Amish, you're talking about, right? The Chinese certainly don't seem to be rejecting technology. But it's a huge, fascinating country with so much complicated stuff going on. Whao they were/are ahead of their time and it seems like their pressing delete often. The cultural revoutional wasn't so great. The Amish....haha, if they still exist, they're kinda weird, I think.
deepeeeh 3 years ago
the chinese are players : )
lol
but when they say "traditional marrige" its like ther saying that they way WE do marrige is the only was your supposed to...
well maybe this is their "marrige" perhaps
LuiBabe56982 3 years ago 2
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fuck Chinese
insanepeng 3 years ago
insanepeng-It's enjoyable to fuck Chinese.
deepeeeh 3 years ago
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Throw a cup of AIDS in there and put a stop to all of that. :P
BMWmotorrad14 3 years ago
who ever lets their wife sleep whit other guy is a cockholder than againg if they want 2 you will know their hoes and cant be whit them
sting1ylo 3 years ago
Not those are the ignorant "Americans" that try to live the easy living by any means possibly.
We need hard working people. Which is mostly gone in the American culture.
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bedshow 3 years ago
booo why get married
supermanXL 3 years ago
100% true
mytalula21 3 years ago
Sounds awesome to me!
MsMercury 3 years ago
Awesome. Maybe some day the rest of the world will be enlightened enough to allow such free love.
pyromania152 3 years ago
whats the diff? itz same as american culture.... fuckin living without marrigeee .......
khemtaproduction 3 years ago
"In southwest China, one culture allows men and women to have multiple partners."
Erm... Since when having MULTIPLE partners is a norm in American society? There are Americans with multiple partners undeniably, but that is unacceptable to most people...
Idler81643 3 years ago
how can i make pudding
dmxezz 3 years ago
k i don't remember subscribing to this channel
Jessicamusic23 3 years ago
lol
hend6475 3 years ago
how interresting, I would have thought that they would be more strict, I thought that Asian communities were more strict...I mean this is still kind of strict with the whole having to ask the mother for permission, but this is much more open that I thought it would be...
lp4ju 3 years ago
You are thinking of a very certain part of china. Study it a bit more. I think you would find it interesting.
nintendo309 3 years ago
what part shoudl I study??
lp4ju 3 years ago
long time ago, many ethnic groups in China are polygamous and are matriarchal society.. now many adopted the chinese patriarchal society which is why you don't see this anymore. jealousy was never part of ancient ethnic people living in china but now it is. long ago, open marriages were cultural stuff... it doesn't mean you can do whatever, you have rules to follow as well.
niamtxiv 3 years ago 4
I believe in Marriage and commitment but this is sorta interesting just sum it up in one word ---- Orgy ------ XD JK XD
GunShade 3 years ago
FUCK MARRIAGE!! Make a commitment if you want, but paper and gold does not make a relationship.
UcanbeGOD 3 years ago 5
so true...i don't see the point to marriage, if you are committed to each other thats all that matters...
lp4ju 3 years ago
Funny how it is viewed by most as complete opposite here in the U.S. People look down on you and think you have something less if you are not married. Because of tradition being taught as fact or the only thing taught, you can't even date 70to80% of the population if you don't want to marry!
UcanbeGOD 3 years ago
itz just like America... without the marriage.
multisimple 3 years ago 4
You can still do it in North America... you just have to not marry.
falcore19 3 years ago 3
aww that little girl looked adorable
mishmishthe1 3 years ago
This is how life should be lived not tied up to one person.
Excelion333 3 years ago
I think I came across these people in Yunnan this summer.
JonnyNice 3 years ago
wild..its amazing how diverse the whole world is
gretna4life 3 years ago 4
no gay sex?! what a ripoff
fumala420 3 years ago
lulz
niospecv 3 years ago
i wish that i could live like this.
samieldarklord357 3 years ago 3
It's great to see that people are permitted to define the structure of their relationships in some countries. As long as no ones rights are violated, it would be nice to see individuals defining the terms and structure of their relationship here. It is unfortunate that the US still imposes restrictions on something so fundamentally personal and private. I doubt that we'll be seeing paperwork with multiple lines for "spouse" any time in the near future.
CharlesVarney 3 years ago 6
CharlesVarney, I still suspect they're restrictive in this village. Just in a different way. What if they want to form a monogamous union? What if the father wants custody of the children instead of the mother? What about gays... and gay adoption? Or any other adoption issues?
I'm sure there are plenty of things they discriminate against. I really wouldn't be surprised. I doubt you'd be able to find a society that truly allows you to define your maritial and/or family structure freely.
Crio3mo 3 years ago
Crio3mo: I can imagine that monogamy would be simple as long as both parties in the relationship agreed to keep it that way. Though, instances of "cheating" would probably be less as they would be free to discuss it openly before entering into the relationship. As for homosexual relationships, I do not recall hearing them mentioned in the video. Bisexuality would probably be more common though, as it would still allow for relationships resulting in children. Record keeping is a must.
CharlesVarney 3 years ago
Free Love! WHOO!
ginkiba3 3 years ago 2
polygamy
Youngman055 3 years ago
It's nice to see recognition that the preposterous notion of "marriage = one man + one woman" isn't universal.
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Future organ farms for the chinese communist governent.
christmanpunch 3 years ago
tecknicaly this aint free love ass he has to pay gifts and also get the blessing from the mother..
LINEAGETUBE 3 years ago 7
I can only imagine the religous people out there that frown on this.
Hammerhead730 3 years ago