poor women of Tibet

[owais.usmani]

They are made to wear incredibly small shoes (for God knows why) from cradle to grave. Just look at what has happened to their feet:

 

[Beskar]

Wow. That was disturbing.

But I suppose it's no different than the poor "Daulay Shah's" r a t people and the women who wear "Neck Rings" in Africa and South-East Asia.

 

[xebex]

Some cultural practices are wierd. there is even a National geographic episode for this called "Taboo"........."one man's taboo is another man's treasure"

Look this one below,

Neck ring - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[skeptic9]

Oh!!!

this is sick!!!

 

[A1Kaid]

@Owais

Those pictures reveal the practice that is called "foot binding" it occurs in Tibet and other parts of Asia (specifically SE Asia). In the culture of the tribes who practice foot binding, it is believed that if a woman has small feet it is beautiful and ideal, and for some marital reasons. Therefore, many women suffer at the pain-staking practice of foot binding.

Excerpt below:


"Author Yang Yang says that women with tiny feet were a status symbol who would bring honor upon the entire clan by their appearance.

"Some married women with bound feet would even get up in the middle of the night to start their toilette, just to ensure they would look good in daytime," he says.

In Liuyicun, the practice persisted so long because of the village's economic prosperity — and its inhabitants' desire for obvious wealth signifiers, like daughters with bound feet."

"At that time, bound feet were a status symbol, the only way for a woman to marry into money. In Wang's case, her in-laws had demanded the matchmaker find their son a wife with tiny feet. It was only after the wedding, when she finally met her husband for the first time, that she discovered he was an opium addict. With a life encompassing bound feet and an opium-addict husband, she's a remnant from another age. That's how author Yang Yang, who's
written a book about them, sees these women."

Source: Painful Memories for China's Footbinding Survivors : NPR


I hope this answers your question to why foot binding is done in some societies.

 

[Coolyo]

I don't know how any guy can find that attractive!

 

[PeacefulIndian]

Well the definition of 'attractive' changes as per the culture. Even if we don't understand, our likings are shaped up by our cultural practices. In some parts of Africa, they make women wear a big, ugly 'Jaw Ring' which elongates a woman's lower jaw much more than the upper one. to an outsider, it looks extremely ugly, but they love the woman who has the most elongated lower jaw!

 

[daiyu]

incredible.how can she wear such small shoes ?

 

[Righteous_Fire]

thats just upsetting, you only need to look at her feet and say otherwise

 

[wangrong]

was a custom practiced on young girls and women for approximately one thousand years in China, beginning in the 10th century and ending in the early 20th century.

 

[Righteous_Fire]

^ Hey wangrong, what do they call it in Chinese and why besides being a turn on point for marriage is it use?

 

[wangrong]

Some cultural practices are wierd. there is even a National geographic episode for this called "Taboo"........."one man's taboo is another man's treasure"

Look this one below,

Neck ring - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Burmese woman

 

[Super Falcon]

carp man i cant see this

 

[florachristi]

Oh man she is so poor and her leg my god,,,, and other lady her neck is so long man,,,,