THE MOST UNUSUAL TRADITIONS AROUND THE WORLD

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PolterabendMonkey buffet festivalGurningCamel wrestling

Foot bindingFinger cuttingBlackening the bride

Introduction• The beauty of differences in world cultures is that what is normal and commonplace for some will seem strange and different to others. • Here are some customs and traditions around the world that may appear especially bizarre to outsiders.

Polterabend• German pre-wedding

tradition• friends and family break

dishes, flowerpots, tiles, toilets, pretty much anything except glasses or mirrors.

• symbolize working together through future difficulties the bride and groom must clean everything up.

Monkey buffet festival

• held annually in Thailand to promote tourism• giving fruits and vegetables to the local

monkey population of 2,000 in Lopburi province north of Bangkok.

Gurning

• Gurn= distorted facial expression• English rural tradition since 1267• World Gurning Championship in Egremont,

held annually in England

Camel wrestling• Practised in Turkey• a popular event where two specially bred

male camels wrestle each other.

Blackening the bride

• Scottish pre-wedding ritual• Bride is covered with eggs, spoiled

milk, feathers, then paraded around town

• purpose :to prepare the bride for marriage because after going through that, any marital problems will seem like nothing.

Foot binding

• Practised in China by young Chinese girls- girls between the ages of three and fourteen had their feet broken and bound with bandages, in order to prevent their feet from growing “too big”

• ensure small, desirable feet, • Was prohibited in 1949

Finger Cutting

• Practised by the Dani tribe in Indonesia• When a family member dies, female

relatives must cut off a segment of one of their fingers.

• performed to satisfy ancestral ghosts.

Conclusion• Every ethnic around the globe has its own

unique tradition with their respective meanings affiliated to it

• No matter how weird the tradition appears to us, outsiders, we still have to respect its uniqueness