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HipChick

(25,485 posts) Tue Dec 10, 2013, 09:30 AM Dec 2013

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Please stop bringing western values and applying them to Africa....

Yes..folks sing and dancing at Mandela memorial is the AFRICAN way,not ours...

I can't believe all negative commentary I heard on my local station this morning, so I called in and corrected them...

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Please stop bringing western values and applying them to Africa.... (Original Post) HipChick Dec 2013 OP

What were people saying? el_bryanto Dec 2013 #1

It's like that in New Orleans too. My family does as a way to celebrate the life of the departed. JRLeft Dec 2013 #2

Wait, you mean people complaining about funeral rites? That's fucked up. Recursion Dec 2013 #3

They never fail - it's the same here - we dance at nine nights malaise Dec 2013 #4

Where? Who? Iggo Dec 2013 #5

never underestimate the ignorance of people. madrchsod Dec 2013 #6

Celebrate the life more than you mourn the death Maeve Dec 2013 #7

yes..common in many cultures...I've spent many a wake at a pub.. HipChick Dec 2013 #10

Oh good grief! HappyMe Dec 2013 #8

Stop bringing everything. lightcameron Dec 2013 #9

I saw a man dancing get the red out Dec 2013 #11

el_bryanto

(11,804 posts)

1. What were people saying?

Reply to HipChick (Original post)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 09:32 AM

Dec 2013

Funeral customs are different all over the world; but surely it is up to the family to determine how they want to commemorate those who have passed on.

Bryant

JRLeft

(7,010 posts)

2. It's like that in New Orleans too. My family does as a way to celebrate the life of the departed.

Reply to HipChick (Original post)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 09:32 AM

Dec 2013

Recursion

(56,582 posts)

3. Wait, you mean people complaining about funeral rites? That's fucked up.

Reply to HipChick (Original post)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 09:34 AM

Dec 2013

I kind of believe in the universality of a lot of "values". But expecting other cultures to do funerals like you do is kind of stupid...

malaise

(269,187 posts)

4. They never fail - it's the same here - we dance at nine nights

Reply to HipChick (Original post)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 09:35 AM

Dec 2013

War criminal Blair is on BBC but I'm watching on SABC's youtube coverage.

Iggo

(47,571 posts)

5. Where? Who?

Reply to HipChick (Original post)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 09:49 AM

Dec 2013

Here?

madrchsod

(58,162 posts)

6. never underestimate the ignorance of people.

Reply to HipChick (Original post)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 09:52 AM

Dec 2013

yes there are many different way to mourn or celebrate a loved on passing over.

Maeve

(42,288 posts)

7. Celebrate the life more than you mourn the death

Reply to HipChick (Original post)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 09:54 AM

Dec 2013

That's an Irish value, too.

HipChick

(25,485 posts)

10. yes..common in many cultures...I've spent many a wake at a pub..

Reply to Maeve (Reply #7)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 09:59 AM

Dec 2013

HappyMe

(20,277 posts)

8. Oh good grief!

Reply to HipChick (Original post)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 09:55 AM

Dec 2013

Asshats.

lightcameron

(224 posts)

9. Stop bringing everything.

Reply to HipChick (Original post)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 09:59 AM

Dec 2013

get the red out

(13,468 posts)

11. I saw a man dancing

Reply to HipChick (Original post)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 11:31 AM

Dec 2013

I saw a man dancing with tears running down his face, you just have to be human to understand that.

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