Anecdotes about Africa, North America and South America

I had never heard of the Masai before I came to Kenya. This time, I was lucky enough to visit the local Masai village in Kenya. Into the Masai world. Entering this village, you can see Masai people along the way. They are armed with spears and dressed in red. Some people graze cattle and sheep, while others are in a hurry. Masai is a nomadic people in East Africa and one of the existing distinctive ethnic minorities in East Africa. At present, there are 584,000 Masai people in Kenya, accounting for about 2% of Kenya's total population, mainly living in the Rift Valley near the Tanzanian border. Marseille men are tall and handsome, slightly arrogant. They were once called "noble barbarians" by western colonists. The traditional Masai people live a nomadic life, with beef and mutton, milk and blood as their main foods, and live in areas where lions, elephants, bison, leopards and other wild animals haunt. The existence of * * * for many years has formed a tacit understanding between Masai people and wild animals, and they usually do not interfere with each other. In Kalahari, Botswana, Bushmen were forcibly expelled from their place of residence and deprived of their way of life. Bushmen have lived there since 20 thousand years ago. It seems that because of the diamonds buried underground, the government ordered them to move out of this arid and waterless desert and move to a new settlement. Bushmen are one of the 5000 indigenous groups on the earth. There may be undiscovered tribes. Anthropologist Antonio Perez said, "It is estimated that there are undiscovered tribes in the Amazon and Papua New Guinea. Although some tribes have been found in Chaco, Bolivia, they have no contact with the outside world. In short, I don't think there are more than five or six such tribes, and each tribe has no more than seventy or eighty people. " Mursi women decorate themselves with pottery plates. The mursi people live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. They are one of the most striking primitive tribes in the world, because Mursi women decorate themselves with earthen plates. This custom is similar to Kayapo Indians in the Amazon region, who hang a baked clay plate (or wooden plate) on their lips. When you put a plate in your mouth as a teenager, your lips will crack. You can put a bigger plate when you grow up. Wearing a plate on your lips is not only for beauty, but also a symbol of wealth. The bigger the plate, the more dowry she has. The Golden Gate Bridge is a famous "double suicide bridge" in the United States and even the world. It turns out that many couples from America and other countries jump into the sea here every year. After we arrived at the bridge, we first took photos at the bridge head and then walked around the bridge. What puzzles us is that, because people often "double suicide" here, this bridge has no preventive facilities except the low railings. Maybe people in San Francisco think that no one jumps into the sea, so this bridge will.

Coincidentally, when I left the bridge, I suddenly saw several people shouting and running under the bridge. So someone jumped into the sea again. Several other people and I ran down and saw that some volunteers might be looking for the "martyrs" who jumped into the sea, but the "martyrs" had disappeared, and it was not known whether they were rescued later. Whenever I talk about it, I feel very puzzled: how can these people not be martyred? It is said that even Americans can't explain the problem clearly. If Indians in tropical Bolivia in South America are accidentally bitten by wild animals or poisonous snakes or accidentally injured and bleed, they often don't go to the doctor immediately, but look for a pig named Polk (meaning imperial doctor). The magic of this pig is that as long as its tongue licks the bleeding wound, no matter how badly the wound licks, it will automatically stop bleeding, detoxify and reduce swelling in a short time.