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His name is Thomas and he's really short. He seemed like a really nice kid and we spoke for about twenty minutes about the differences in Western and Kenyan culture. He spoke about the differences in the way each culture treats women and stuff like that. After we were done talking I had to lift my jaw up from the floor and try to adjust it back into my mouth. I was so shocked at just how different our cultures could be and he just laughed at me when I kept asking " what???? " every time he mentioned somthing. I mean we're not talking about lightyears away. We're talking about just a couple of thousand miles. It's like a completely different universe, though. Unfathomable to think that this guy had made it all the way to America... All in all it was a great conversation and I learned a lot. Any questions about what I learned?  | |
sTreetAngeL
root tedt ree
| | Yeah, how do they treat thier women different? In what ways? |
rubylights
| @sTreetAngel Said 
Yeah, how do they treat thier women different? In what ways?
well, for starters. marriage is not the way we see it out here (at least not in the bush)
a man will take all his buddies to your house and go pick you up and bring you to his hut. then he'll sleep with you and that's the end of that. your his wife but he can always leave you... unless you're pregnant. then he's stuck with you. and he can do that with as many women as he pleases. (the majority of people aren't like that anymore but it still exists in some extremely rural areas.)
also, in most areas in Kenya, if a man comes over to visit another man's house, his wife must excuse herself and go into the back room as a sign of respect to her husband and the visitor. crazy, right? |
sTreetAngeL
root tedt ree
| @rubylights Said
well, for starters. marriage is not the way we see it out here (at least not in the bush)
a man will take all his buddies to your house and go pick you up and bring you to his hut. then he'll sleep with you and that's the end of that. your his wife but he can always leave you... unless you're pregnant. then he's stuck with you. and he can do that with as many women as he pleases. (the majority of people aren't like that anymore but it still exists in some extremely rural areas.)
also, in most areas in Kenya, if a man comes over to visit another man's house, his wife must excuse herself and go into the back room as a sign of respect to her husband and the visitor. crazy, right?
 Ahhh, I don't think I'd fit in well over there. |
rubylights
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yeah, no kidding.
i was trying my best not to disrespect his culture but all I kept saying was, "that's crazy ".
he didn't seem to mind, though. he just kept laughing at how shocked i was.
and that's not even the craziest part. keep asking!!  |
sTreetAngeL
root tedt ree
| @rubylights Said
yeah, no kidding.
i was trying my best not to disrespect his culture but all I kept saying was, "that's crazy ".
he didn't seem to mind, though. he just kept laughing at how shocked i was.
and that's not even the craziest part. keep asking!!
Please don't tell me they share their wives!!! |
sTreetAngeL
root tedt ree
| @rubylights Said
not exactly.
men walk around with spears. and when a man gets to his house he leaves his spear outside to let other men know that there's a man in the house. if there is no spear outside, a man can assume that there's no one there (except a woman) and he can go and sleep with her. if the man gets home and finds them in the act, however, a fight obviously ensues, sometimes to the death. and the woman gets in trouble too. 
again, this is in drastically rural Kenya, not in the more developed cities (if such a term applies).
dang, a woman just can't win it seems! That's not right at all, for her to get in trouble for something she didn't even want to happen. |
jonnythan
Bringer of rad mirth
| @rubylights Said We're talking about just a couple hundred thousand miles.
Sorry, this made me giggle  |
rubylights
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it was meant to illustrate how a seemingly small world can be so diverse. that's why i compared it to lightyears.  |
jonnythan
Bringer of rad mirth
| | See? I just totally messed up editing my own post.. |
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