In my travels I've been in a group of islands where all the people on the various islands appear to live substantially the same, with the same traditions and material circumstances. Yet invariably, I'd be talking to locals who would tell me "oh, don't go to that island, the people over there will steal your stuff and cheat you". Later,…
In my travels I've been in a group of islands where all the people on the various islands appear to live substantially the same, with the same traditions and material circumstances. Yet invariably, I'd be talking to locals who would tell me "oh, don't go to that island, the people over there will steal your stuff and cheat you". Later, when I'd travel to that island and talk to the locals there they'd be telling me "oh, you better watch out when you're on that island (where I just came from), they can't be trusted at all and their women show their thighs!!!"
A long time ago the people in these islands would head hunt by raiding their neighboring islands. One of the local chiefs, directly descended from a great chief who took many heads, told me it was just a game. And maybe it was...
It's something in the human animal that makes us this way I guess.
In my travels I've been in a group of islands where all the people on the various islands appear to live substantially the same, with the same traditions and material circumstances. Yet invariably, I'd be talking to locals who would tell me "oh, don't go to that island, the people over there will steal your stuff and cheat you". Later, when I'd travel to that island and talk to the locals there they'd be telling me "oh, you better watch out when you're on that island (where I just came from), they can't be trusted at all and their women show their thighs!!!"
A long time ago the people in these islands would head hunt by raiding their neighboring islands. One of the local chiefs, directly descended from a great chief who took many heads, told me it was just a game. And maybe it was...
It's something in the human animal that makes us this way I guess.