In the town of Fareo Islands, Denmark, locals and tourists gather along the bloody shores to watch the mass killing of dolphins. Every year during the summer months teenage boys wade in the water and intice dolphins to come close to shore. When close enough to reach the boys stab the dolphin repeatedly until it is dead. This is done as a right of passage into manhood. After the dolphin is killed they are no longer considered a teenage boy, but a real man. Near one thousand dolphins are killed each year. The water is no longer a clear blue during these months but a blood red. The dolphins are then drug up upon shore to sit and smell. These dolphins are being killed for nothing but fun they aren't used for food or anything useful. It has been said that the screams of a dolphin are similar to those of a young child. Can you imagine the mass amount of screams that come from these shores from the innocent dolphins being slaughtered. If this isn't bad enough locals take their children out of school to watch up close these horrible killings. If that's not terrifying for a child I'm not sure what is. This is sickening that boys get pleasure out of killing such sweet animals. It shouldn't matter how far back this culture has been around it's not right and someone needs to realize how wrong it is and stop it before the killing numbers become any higher and these animals start becoming extinct.
This is real and something needs to be done!
How could anyone think that killing defenseless animals would make you more of a man? I could hardly watch this video without wanting to just cry. It's unbelievable to me that this is acceptable in a culture and is said to be your passage into manhood. This is just awful to me that people could actually do this to harmless dolphins. I'm a big animal lover and it just makes me so sad to see this getting done to them for absolutely no reason.
ReplyDeleteThe reason why you think this is wrong and cruel is because of the way you were raised. If you are man in the United States, your rites of passage are losing your virginity, or a keg stand. If you are from Maasai Tribe, you hunt a lion. If you are from Ethiopia, you run naked over 20 bulls four times. There are also many other places where boys inflict pain upon themselves to become a man. Like the Australian Mardudjara Aborigines. I have found two rituals. First, they do something similar to bungee jumping, but with two fragile vines. These vines can easily snap and they could break their neck. Second, a circumcision, but not when they are born. They also have to eat the foreskin. After it heals…well, maybe you should go read the article.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.sloshspot.com/blog/02-25-2010/American-Rites-of-Passages-Make-Other-Cultures-Look-Soft-287
http://artofmanliness.com/2010/02/21/male-rites-of-passage-from-around-the-world/
It isn’t cruel. It is culture.
And no wonder there are so many lion attacks on African villages because they are hunting innocent animals for the pleasure of being called a "man". Just because it's been in their culture for thousands of years doesn't make it right and doesn't make it civil. It's cruel no matter which way you look at.http://www.lionattacks.net/lionattacks.html
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That's exactly my point. It's in your culture to believe that killing animals is cruel and wrong, but that doesn't make your culture right. Obviously different people are raised differetly depeneding where they are from. People from the Maasai tribe don't see it as cruelty. They see as if they achieve their goal then they can become a productive member of the tribe, become the cheif, or even get married.
ReplyDeleteYou probably see it as every man goes out and kills a lion. But the thing you don't take into consideration is that it's a LION. Lions can kill people very easily. It's not like they have a gun or a knife... they just have a spear.