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Unusual Traditions Around the World Polterabend Monkey Buet Festival Gurning Cheese Rolling La Tomatina Blackening the Bride Lip Discs Chinese foot binding Neck Rings Finger Cutting References
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Unusual Traditions Around the World

The beauty of dierences in world cultures is that what is normal and commonplace for some will seem strange and dierent to others. Here are ten customs and traditions from around the world that may appear especially bizarre to outsiders.

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Polterabend

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Polterabend

Polterabend is a German pre-wedding tradition where friends and family come together for an informal party. They break dishes, owerpots, tiles, pretty much anything except glasses and mirrors. To symbolize working together through future diculties, the bride and groom must clean eveything up.

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Monkey Buet Festival

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Monkey Buet Festival

Over 3,000 kilograms of fruit and vegetables are oered to the monkey population of the Lopburi province in Bangkok. The monkeys are the ones doing the feasting at this annual event in Thailand. The festival provides food and drink to the local monkey population, thanking them for drawing tourists to the town.

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Gurning

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Gurning
A gurnis a distorced facial expression, and English rural tradition has celebrated making these humorous grimaces since 1267. At the World Gurning Championship in Egremont, England, competitors don a horse collar an attempt to make the most grotesque face possible. The four-time world champion Peter Jackman take the competition very seriously. He had his teeth removed in 2000 to make his facial maneuvers easier.

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Cheese Rolling

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Cheese Rolling

The Coopers Hill Cheese-Rolling is an annual event held at Coopers Hill near Gloucester, England. Once a year, young men and women hurl themselves down a hill so steep that it is impossible to remain standing, in pursuit of a seven or eight pound wheel of locally made Double Gloucester cheese.

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La Tomatina

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La Tomatina

La Tomatina is a festival that is held in the Valencian town of Buol, in which participants throw tomatoes at each other. n The event has become one of the highlights on Spains summer festivals calendar with thousands of people ocking to this little Valencian town for this chaotic event. The origins of La Tomatina arent clear with several theories explaining how Bunyol has become home to the worlds biggest tomato ght.

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Blackening the Bride

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Blackening the Bride

To prepare for their marriage, Scottish brides to be must go through a very foul pre-wedding ritual. Friends of the bride take her by surprise and cover her with eggs, spoiled milk, feathers, pretty much anything disgusting. The blackened bride is then paraded around town. The purpose of this custom is to prepare the bride for marriage because after going through that, any marital problems will seem like nothing.

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Lip Discs

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Lip Discs

A lip plate is a form of body modication. In Africa, a lower lip plate is usually combined with the excision of the two lower front teeth, sometimes all four. In many older sources it is reported that the plates size is a sign of social or economical importance. However, because of natural mechanical attributes of human skin, it seems that the plates size often just depends on the stage of stretching of the lip.

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Chinese foot binding

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Chinese foot binding

Chinese foot binding involved binding the feet of women in order to shrink them - such that they could t into 3 inch shoes. The chinese foot binding shoes were called lotus shoes. Having small feet that were shaped like moon crests, was considered to be the highest form of beauty in women in China. Women with bound feet could not walk and had to totter about. Thus chinese foot binding became a symbol of chastity and eroticism.
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Neck Rings

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Neck Rings

In a few African and Asian cultures neck rings are worn usually to create the appearance that the neck has been stretched. Small girls may wear brass collars from the age of two to ve years old, as it is more comfortable to lengthen the neck slowly. The alternative is rapidly, and painfully lengthening the neck around the age of twelve, when the girls rst compete for the attentions of boys.

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Finger Cutting

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Finger Cutting

While most cultures mourn the loss of family members, women of the Dani tribe in Indonesia must suer great physical pain in addition to emotional pain. When a family member dies, female relatives must cut o a segment of one of their ngers. This practice is performed to satisfy ancestral ghosts. Luckily for the Dani women, this custom is rarely practiced anymore.

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References

1 http://www.nicenfunny.com/2011/02/ most-weird-traditions.html 2 http://totallytop10.com/lifestyle/culture/ top-10-strange-traditions

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