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B A D J A O - S E A P E O P L E

Badjao, known also as"Sea Gypsies" is a tribalgroup that lives in Borneo.Their lifestyle is muchdifferent from ours. Seanomands live in smallthatch-roofed houses onbamboo stilts on a smallstrip of land that nobodyelse wanted. They spendmost of their time on boatsor diving in the water andfishing. They can stayunder the surface of thewater for a very long timeand their children firstlearn how to swim, thenhow to walk. It is said thatwhen they come out of thewater, they suffer from thelandsickness. There is a legend aboutBadjao. It says that theirancestors had gills insteadof lungs. It would not behard to believe in

that story. They oftenhave to grapple withheadaches and musclecramps but beneath thewater they feel like fish.They are able to seeeverything very well underthe surface. Eyeaccommodation is evenproper there. Seanomands can also walkon the seabed looking forseafood. Nobody knows howmany sea people live onour planet. They do notexist for the government.That is the reason whytheir children are notallowed to attend school.Sea Gypsies can notwrite, read or count.Badjao parents do noteven know how manyyears their children have.They can not go

to the doctor either. Onlybecause sea nomandsare not registered in anyhospitals. They are notregistered anywhere. Thelaw is cruel to them.Badjao can only rely ontheir primitive healingskills. Sea people struggle alsowith a huge environnentpollution. Tourists arekeen on their beautifulbeaches. They comethere eagerly to snorkel,swim or just to enjoyexotic landscapes.Unfortunately, the most ofthem leave a lot of trash.Badjao also pollute theirterritory. The reason islack of knowledge. Theynoticed too late thatrubbish did not disappear,because some of them didnot decomposit.

The sad fact is that thegovernment want to get ridof sea nomands instead ofeducating them. Sea Gypsies travel withthe wind by houseboatscalled vintas from oneisland to the other insearch of fishing harvest.This pagan tribe havesailed the seas for morethan a thousand years, butbecause of overfishing bynornal people with theirprofessional, high-techequipment, Badjao's lifeon the open waters isfading out. As a result,more and more seapeople are forced toresettle. They move toland, settle in surroundingslums and let their divingskills disappear. The lifestyle of seapeople is amazing.

Full of beauty andcompletely different fromeveryday life of ordinarypeople. It would be sad ifthe world would let Badjaodisappear forever. Even ifit happens, unusual skillsof Sea Gypsies shouldnever be forgotten.

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T H E M E N N O N I T E S

The Mennonitesare group ofOrthodox Protestantsthat lives in BolivianSanta Rita. TheMennonites, is acommunity thatseparated from tjeState Church in 16thcentury on theterritory of Prussia.They eventuallysettled in Bolivia,because the Boliviangovernment there didnot order the youngmen to join the army.There probablyexists 1,5 million ofMennonitesscattered all over theworld. It is said thatthey can be foundeven in 82 countries.They communicate

with one anotherusing an old Germanlanguage. The current lifestyleof therepresentatives ofthis group looksalmost the same as itwas 5 centuries ago.There is no elecricityor internet and allkinds of fun, culturalevents or sports areforbidden. Peoplecannot sing, dance oreven listen to music.They are allowed tomeet with friends inthe village but theyare totally forbiddento make parties.Mennonites aremoving only bycartloads andhorses. Sometimes

they can use a car,but without owning it.A person who breaksany rules is punishedby exclusion from thecommunity. Womendo not use anycometics and nobodyever heard anythingabout make-up.There are also dressrules for Mennonites.Of course brightcolours and jewelleryare not consideredappropriate. A darkdress and a hat is thebest outfit for awoman, and navydungarees and ashirt are mainly wornby men. Evenchildren dress up liketheir parents. At thewedding the young

couple should wearblack clothes. If it comes toeveryday dutieseveryone has theirown things to do.Men should work inthe field while womenhave to do householdchores, raise childrenand sew clothes.Good wife must bekind, modest andlisten to her husband.A partition is alsoapparent in church,where women andmen sits on oppositesides and haveseparate exits. Alsogirls in the schoolcannot sit near theboys. The authorities ofthe Mennonites

have rejected thetraditional educationalsystem. Students goto school betweenthe ages 5 and 13.They are only taughthow to write, readand the basics ofmathematics. Themost importantlessons in school areabout the Bible.Geography, Historyand other subjectsare forbidden.Teachers usecorporalpunishments inschools, so childrenare really focused ontheir lectures. It isworth mentioning thatchildren attendschool only fewmonths a year

when they do nothave to work in field. Mennonites' life isnot easy and theyalso know that. Mostof them disagree withsome of cummunityrules, but still want tostay in the group.However youthincreasingly go awayfrom the traditions oftheir ancestors. Noone knows how longMennonites will existin the world.

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albino in africa albino twins

There are plenty of people with white hair as if they were angels. Their eyesare adapted to dark places and they can hardly see during the day. Sunlightblinds them. Their skin is as pale as snow. They cannot stay outside withoutprotection. They need to prevent their skin from sunburns. These people arealbinos. They suffer from albinism, i.e. inherited condition that manifests thecomplete absence of pigment in the skin, hair and eyes. Their life has notbeen easy...

In the past shamans told people that charms made of albinos' body partscould transmit magic powers. Therefore, people hunted and killed for manyyears. Unluckily, there are still some places on the Earth where albino peopleare persecuted. Albinos are still an object of violence and ridicule in somecountries in Africa nowadays.

In Tanzania, they are told to be ghosts. Tanzanian people mock at albinosand underestimate their talents or abilities. As one of them, Josephat said:"People say that when I die, I'll disappear. They think my body and skin canmake someone rich. We are bullied. We are killed. But I'm not scared tospeak."

Albinos are captured and killed as in many regions of Africa. People do it formoney. A body of albino costs around 75000$. For such an amount of moneyTanzanian people would have worked for at least 150 years. In 2007 numberof victims increased. Only in 2008 the European Union Parliament took astand to protect albinos from any act of violence and first sentence inTanzania for killing albino was received in 2009.

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The media usually report bad things across Pakistan. What a pity! There isdefinitely much more to say about this country. For example, indigenouspeople who live in the Chitral District that is a province of Pakistan. I meanthe tribe of Kalashes.

This tribe is mucholder than the Pakistanitself! The history ofKalashes dates backto the anchient timesand these people aresaid to be decedants ofpeople who were ruledby Alexander theGreat.Many people say thatKalash women are thehappiest and the mostliberated in the wholeworld.They dominate overmen in every aspect oflife. From little girls toeldery women, theyare dreesed in longbalck tunics richlydecorated withcolourful designs,mainly flowers.

Compearing to menwho are dressed inbeige, neuter complet,women brings up moreattention.People in this tribe arefree and do not subjectunder the Pakistanlaw. They have verystrict rules ofcleanliness andimpurity. For examplewhen a woman isabout to give a birth orshe is on her period,she must move to the“red house” for thattime. She is notallowed to cook orspend her time insociety because she is“impure”. Men mustnot even touch thewalls around the “redhouse” let alone enterthere.

This is the mostsevere rule of thistribe. Suprisingly, awoman can chooseher husband and evenchange him aftersometime! She can easilydivorce and getmarried again.The onlyconsequence will bepaying back two timesmore than she hadreceived from thefamily of her ex-husband. They believethat the womandeserves to be happyand if love makes herhappy no one canstand on her way.

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