i cant watch this without my mind racing.
so soul stirring.
i see this and i see what possibly might be the broken and missing link in the diaspora..in places where indigenous cultures were destroyed and corrupted, people ripped away from their patterns, their traditions, their practices. strong bonds around gender, the role of males. i mean. can you look at these men and think anything but power. singlemindedness of a life and living>? the disparateness says something to me. but i need to learn more about that part of the world, I had a colleague there, a trini, actually, and we lost touch. when i first saw this video, I wondered about violence, what is the incidence of violence among women. (clan) comes to mind. that is closest to the word I was looking for above but only cult was coming and that is totally wrong. but cultural forms, the unbridled core and groundedness of cultural norms that appear to grip its citizens, and keep them in a line, creates this vibration of power and togetherness, honor.
i dont know if i am projecting. but there is much here to excavate, for there, and for over here...
what is the experience of western religions in that pacific region?
ALL BLACK, huh?
okay!
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Male and Masculinity: Cultures and Traditions, A Global Review
who is doing that work? not just in their little space where they stand or hole where they are rooted, but who is looking at their landscape and comparing it to places elsewhere, cultures, traditions, religions, indigenous and western?
i am now realizing as with most things...we dig our deaths and then proclaim it noble, worthy, valuable, legitimate, not knowing that we are beta and below.
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