Four hundred and twentieth chapters assimilation and persistence
"Have you been together this morning? Did you know each other last night?" Holland heard the conversation between Hong Tao and Pan and couldn't help but be curious. In his opinion, women like Pan are still very difficult to mess with, but why did this Chinese young man act like this?
Did they hook up right away? Although the conversation just now was all about thighs, it sounded like there was something else in it.
"Handsome men will be noticed wherever they go, and the same goes for beautiful women. Pan and I just admire each other, don't you think? Pan!" Hong Tao brought out his shameless behavior again,
Unless you are more shameless than him, you can't refute this kind of topic. Obviously the Dutch don't have this ability. He can't say that Hong Tao is ugly, let alone that Pan has no vision, so he can only express his feelings in silence.
manner.
As time went by, this small Maasai village became more and more lively. Maasai men who had gone out to herd began to gradually return to the village. Hong Tao and his group of guests were also very strange for a Maasai village. According to the Maasai people
With their living habits, few outsiders can approach their villages, let alone enter the villages as guests.
At this time, Hong Tao finally realized the feeling of wild animals. He felt that he was almost like a wild animal. Every Maasai tribesman would surround the four of them curiously. Not only would they look at it, but sometimes they would even reach out and touch the clothes they were wearing.
, and then they got together and murmured. Hong Tao guessed that they were commenting on the appearance of himself. According to the aesthetic point of view of the Maasai people, Hong Tao and the others probably fell into the ugly category.
Regardless of whether you are beautiful or ugly, you are always happy to be noticed. Especially those Maasai women and children, they are very simple. Although the two parties cannot communicate in words, through simple gestures and body language, everyone chats more delicately and more
vivid.
Of course, Hong Tao thinks that it would be more perfect if the cow dung everywhere and the smell of cow dung on the body can be removed. In addition, Hong Tao is very jealous that the Maasai people, regardless of gender, old or young, have bright white teeth, although he knows that this may be related to
Their eating habits have a lot to do with each other, but his heart is still full of envy, jealousy and hatred.
So Hong Tao started to misbehave again. He took out all the sweets he had with him, and forcibly took out all the candies and chocolates from Wei Han and Holland's urinal pockets. He didn't even put them in Pan's clothes pocket.
Passed. Then with a harmless smile, he began to distribute candies to several Maasai children, and patiently taught them how to open the packaging of the candies.
In fact, Hong Tao doesn't like children very much, and of course he doesn't hate them. The reason why he suddenly became so caring was not because he was moved by the child's innocence, but because he had ulterior motives! This intention was too sinister and vicious.
He was too embarrassed to say it. He planned to let these black children eat more sweets to see if their teeth could be eaten into worms, and to see if they could still keep their teeth white and irritating!
At almost 4 o'clock, the chief's sons finally came back, including the owner of the little stick. When he saw Hong Tao and Holland urinating, he seemed very happy. It didn't matter whether Hong Tao understood or not, he was giggling.
Just an intense chat.
"Thank you for helping my brother. There is nothing in the village to entertain everyone, so my father and the elders decided to invite you to participate in the coming-of-age ceremony in our village. I think this may be what you are most interested in, right?"
There is a tall Maasai man standing behind the owner of the stick. Although he is also wearing a red cloth and has bare feet, he is no different from other Maasai people. But his expression is different from other Maasai people, and he speaks English.
Hong Tao was even more surprised.
"My name is Parulu, Kasarulu's brother." The Maasai man introduced his name and extended his hand to shake hands with Hong Tao and the others.
In a very closed Maasai village that still adheres to its thousands of years of customs, a Maasai man who can speak English suddenly pops up. Not only Hong Tao is surprised, but even Holland is curious, so these four foreign guests gather around
This Parulu started a verbal bombardment, first asking about his experience, and then asking all the questions in their hearts.
It turned out that Parulu was the only college student in the Maasai village. When he was a child, he accidentally met a hunting team. The completely different lifestyle touched Parulu, who was still a teenager at the time. He did not intend to
I no longer live the same life as my parents in the village, but prefer to go outside and take a look.
At that time, the Tanzanian government, with funding from the United Nations Educational Agency, was implementing a policy whose main purpose was to help the Maasai people with compulsory education. Since many areas where the Maasai people grazed have been turned into wildlife reserves, they could be freed
There are fewer and fewer places for grazing. Although the Tanzanian government and the international community have raised a lot of funds to support the Maasai tribe who have lost their cattle, they do not help the poor. After losing their source of livelihood,
Many Maasai villages are in danger of becoming unsustainable.
The Maasai people are hunters by nature. Although they are naturally confident and not irritable in character, they were still very resistant to the government's restrictive policies at first. In their eyes, grasslands and cattle are everything. Without these, they will no longer be able to
Since then, bloody conflicts have occurred in many Maasai pastoral areas. For these natural prairie hunters, hunting the forest police sent by the government on the prairie is not much different from killing a wild animal.
Facing the fierce resistance of the Maasai people, the Tanzanian government has nothing to do. They can't send troops and helicopters to drive away the Maasai people. Moreover, they live on the prairie and their whereabouts are erratic. Even if they send out the army, they may not be able to catch these hunters.
Once a larger conflict occurs, the losses will be huge.
To say that white people are more thieves, just when the Tanzanian government was at its wits end, the United Nations education organization gave the Tanzanian government an idea, which was to gradually lure young Maasai people into modern society, and then use them to slowly influence the Maasai people.
Change your mindset. This idea is much smarter and more insidious than the coercive approach of the Tanzanian government. It intends to fundamentally eliminate the Maasai, an ancient East African nation, and is exactly the same as the colonial policy used by many white colonists.
Parulu was one of the handful of Maasai young people who were seduced. He convinced his father, the leader of the village, and held an adult ceremony in advance. When he was 11 years old, he brought two cows of his own.
He left the Maasai village with more than 10 sheep and went to Arusha alone to attend primary school.
Speaking of the Maasai people, they have experienced colonial rule and the independence of African countries, but they have never been assimilated. It is the same this time, although a small number of Maasai young people are attracted to study in schools, and some have even gone to big cities.
Or continue their studies in European universities, but the vast majority of them choose to return to their own ethnic group to continue living after graduation.
These Maasai young people who have received modern education not only did not help the government to deal with their own tribesmen, but also helped their tribesmen to fight against the government from legal, economic and other aspects. It is estimated that the Tanzanian government is regretting it now. This is not pulling the plug.
Ah, this is purely for the joy of helping others!
After graduating from high school, Parulu also returned to the Maasai village in the crater. He was also worried about the future of the Maasai people, so he teamed up with several Maasai classmates and established a Maasai tourism company in Arusha to provide services for the future.
This tour provides various guides and hunting services to European and American tourists, aiming to increase the income of the Maasai people and promote Maasai culture, history, etc. to the outside world.
The coming-of-age ceremony in Parulu's mouth seems to be very contradictory to his status as a middle school graduate, because in Hong Tao's view, this coming-of-age ceremony is a bit too bloody, too backward and too conflicting with the times. It should not be a person who has received a modern education.
