Taboos - Film Response
On Thursday when we were watching "Taboo: Special initiation rituals", I couldn't help but cringe as I watched some of the rituals. Mostly the 13-year-old boy becoming a man, and the Amazonians ensuring the pain of the bullet ant over 20 times. I continued to think of my own family members and watching them go through the same acts and how that would make me feel, or even how they would be able to withstand the same traditions.
My little cousin is 17 years old, and it's almost funny to me to think about him recreating what the 13-year-olds were doing as I know he'd never be able to do the same thing in a million years. Then it got me thinking, my little cousin is not religious whatsoever, yet I'm Catholic. He could not wrap his head around my confirmation, as he thought it was the weirdest thing and that it made no sense. "Can't you just BE Catholic? Why do you have to take classes? You have to go to a 4 hour long Mass just to take a new name???" He seriously thought I was the craziest person in the world.
Also, I remember when I turned 18, it was such a huge deal to get your first tattoo, it was just what you did. You turn 16, you can drive, you turn 18, you get a tattoo. But in class, I did see some people cringing when the 13-year-old girl was getting her tattoos. It really shows how these "initiation rituals" are totally and completely relative to our own worlds.
My little cousin is 17 years old, and it's almost funny to me to think about him recreating what the 13-year-olds were doing as I know he'd never be able to do the same thing in a million years. Then it got me thinking, my little cousin is not religious whatsoever, yet I'm Catholic. He could not wrap his head around my confirmation, as he thought it was the weirdest thing and that it made no sense. "Can't you just BE Catholic? Why do you have to take classes? You have to go to a 4 hour long Mass just to take a new name???" He seriously thought I was the craziest person in the world.
Also, I remember when I turned 18, it was such a huge deal to get your first tattoo, it was just what you did. You turn 16, you can drive, you turn 18, you get a tattoo. But in class, I did see some people cringing when the 13-year-old girl was getting her tattoos. It really shows how these "initiation rituals" are totally and completely relative to our own worlds.
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