February 26th, 2008 
Spooky So what you see in these photos is practically what you get if you decide to marry in some Ethiopian tribes, a woman with a huge round circle through her lower lip and no lower front teeth…That’s right, in order for her to be able to wear that thing, 2 or sometimes all four lower front teeth are yanked out.
Now I’ve always supported cultural diversity, but this and what they do at Phuket Vegetarian Festival, just make me sick. I wouldn’t go out there and try to impose my culture on them but still…I can’t agree with I’m seeing either. I wonder how they kiss in Ethiopia? Even with that thing off, it’s got to be something nasty!
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This is what Ethiopians do with their mouths since there is never anything to eat ! Somebody help feed these poor starving people ! They are trying to eat the plates ! The horror !!!
I’ll bet that those people are real happy those things are not b*tt plugs! Ouch!
NOT all ethiopians are like that , those are rural areas
dont be imature many die every day.
you fucking stupid, you are constipate of brain or knwledge and you are having a diarreah of mouth please clean up your mouth and add some cultural knowledge in your fucking brain. fucker!!!!!!!!!!! You should learn and try to read and learn about our world, not only your fucking world.
I agree with the message french fries is trying to send. But french fries, if we are talking about learning here, you should probably know that there are better ways to express opinions and less profane but more effective ways to tell someone where to shove it. Using that much profanity devalues any message that you were trying to send.
What makes this any different to the obsessive culture of cosmetic surgery today?
Its no different i hope they look at our women and think the exact same you state these. its body adornment. differnce between make-up and their face paintings? nothing . You dont know if the girl with the biggest lip plate is the most attractive in the tribe.
Im doing a report on Ethiopia in school. And It came to my mind, how do they go through all that pain? I mean really, we whine if we get a little cut, theese people must be really sense-less to be able to take in that much pain. But then again they most likely had years of practice. Btw, the girls are really lucky, hah I wish I could walk around with no top on. That would be sooo much more compfortable.
RaeRawr, you should feel comfortable walking around with out your top on whenever you want. I wish more girls would, then it would be more common and no one would think any different. If you go to addis ababa I’m sure there are very few women that walk around with their tops off because of the cultural norms of the powerful countries that seem to pervade every inch of this world. Make a difference, next time you are swimming just flip the top off (tell your friend to do it as well so you are more comfortable) … hell i’ll join you
Yes, not all Ethiopians include this cultural practice. I have many Ethiopian friends and none of them practice such adornment.
Beauty really is cultural and a matter of perception. This may be unattractive to some, but its beautiful to others.
FYI guys: don’t generalize by just looking few pictures. The pictures represent the people of the Mure in Ethiopia. They form under 0.005% of the Ethiopian people. Can these guys represent Ethiopians? These are people similar to the Botocudo people in Brazil.
you guys are such idiots…..
how do they kiss? how do you? you kiss the screen and send it by e-mail? how do you have sex wearing pants? if you were talking about woman genital mutilation i could understand, but this… there are much more painful rituals tradition than this, like some tribes sharpening they teeth and others types of body piercing, used in both woman and man. From your point of view we should abolish tattooing and body piercing just because they are painful. The only reason that you don’t see this type of body piercing in the so called civilized world, is that it’s considered unaesthetic and unpractical. If not, i can ashore you that you would be seeing lots of people using it in the streets of New York, London, Paris…
I have heard, or seen somewhere whether it was a documentary, or just someone telling me (I cannot remember), that the reason for the lip plate is for the man’s penis. if that really is the case I would find the lip stretching and plate to be very degrading. however I do not know if that is really the case? does anyone know?