Chapter 423: Assimilation and Persistence

"You're together in the morning? Did you know each other last night? Holland urinated and heard the conversation between Hong Tao and Pan, and couldn't help but be a little curious, in his opinion, a woman like Pan is still very difficult to mess with, but how did this Chinese guy hook up as soon as he came? Although the conversation just now was all about the thighs, it sounded like something else in it.

"Handsome men will be noticed when they go there, and beautiful women are the same, Pan and I belong to this situation of mutual appreciation, don't you say? Pan! "Hong Tao brought out his shameless set again, unless you are more shameless than him, you can't refute this kind of topic. Obviously, the Dutch did not have this ability, and he could not say that Hong Tao was ugly, let alone that Pan had no vision, so he had to express his attitude in silence.

As time went by, this small village of Maasai became more and more lively, and the Maasai men who went out to graze began to gradually return to the village, and Hong Tao and their wave of guests were also very unusual for a Maasai village, according to the living habits of the Maasai people, few outsiders could get close to their village, let alone enter the village as guests.

Hong Tao finally experienced the feelings of wild animals at this time, he felt that he was almost like wild animals, and every Maasai would curiously gather around the four of them, not only to look, but sometimes to reach out and touch the clothes they were wearing, and then get together to mumble once. Hong Tao estimated that they were commenting on the appearance of their own people, and according to the aesthetic point of view of the Maasai people, Hong Tao and the others probably belonged to the category of being very ugly.

Whether it's beautiful or ugly, it's always nice to be noticed. Especially the Maasai women and children, they are very simple, although the two sides cannot communicate in words, but through simple gestures and body language, everyone talks more delicately and expressively.

Of course, Hong Tao thinks that it would be more perfect if he could remove the cow dung everywhere and the smell of cow dung on his body. In addition, Hong Tao is very jealous of the white teeth of the Maasai people, regardless of gender, age and child, although he knows that this may have a lot to do with their eating habits, but his heart is still full of envy, jealousy and hatred.

So Hong Tao began to make mistakes again, he took out all the sweets he had on his body, and forcibly turned out the sugar and chocolate in Wei Han and Dutch's urinal pockets. Not even Pan's clothes pocket was spared. Then, with a harmless smile, he began to distribute candy to a few of the Maasai kids. He also patiently taught them how to open the candy package.

In fact, Hong Tao doesn't like children too much, and of course he doesn't hate them, the reason why he suddenly became so loving is not because of the child's innocence. But with ulterior motives! This intention is too sinister and too vicious. He himself was too embarrassed to say it. He plans to let these black kids eat more sugar, see if they can eat their teeth into worm teeth, and see if they can still make people angry with a mouthful of white teeth!

It's almost 4 o'clock. The sons of the chief finally returned, and among them was the owner of the little stick. When he saw Hong Tao and Holland urinating, he was very happy, and it didn't matter whether Hong Tao understood it or not, it was just a fierce chat.

"Xie Lu, thank you for helping my brother, there is nothing to entertain everyone in the village, so my father and the elders decided to invite you to our village's coming-of-age ceremony, I think this may be the thing you are most interested in, right?" Behind the owner of the little stick stood a tall Maasai man, although he was also dressed in a red cloth and barefoot, and his expression was different from that of other Maasai people, and his English language surprised Hong Tao even more.

"My name is Paluru, and I'm Kasarulu's brother." The Maasai man introduced his name and shook hands with Hong Tao and the others.

In the very closed and still adhere to their thousand-year-old customs in the Maasai village, a Maasai man who can speak English suddenly popped up, not only Hong Tao was surprised, but even the Dutch urine was very curious, so these 4 foreign guests began a language bombardment around this Paluru, first asking about his experience, and then raising all the questions in their hearts.

It turned out that this Paluru was the only university student in the village of Marseille, and when he was a child, he accidentally encountered a hunting party, and that completely different way of life touched Paluru, who was still a teenager at the time, and he did not plan to live the same life in the village as his father, but preferred to go outside and see.

At that time, the Government of Tanzania, with funding from the United Nations Education Agency, was pursuing a policy aimed primarily at helping the Maasai community to make compulsory education. Since many of the Maasai grazing areas have been turned into wildlife sanctuaries, there are fewer and fewer places where they can graze freely. Although the Tanzanian government and the international community have raised a lot of money to support the Maasai tribes who have lost their cattle, many Maasai villages have been in danger after they have lost their livelihood.

The Maasai are hunters by nature, and although they have a natural envelope and are not irritable, they are initially very resistant to these government restrictions. In their eyes, the grasslands and cattle are everything, and without that, they cease to exist, so there are bloody clashes in the pastoral areas of many Maasai people, and for these natural steppe hunters, hunting a forest police sent by the government on the savannah is not much different from killing a wild animal.

In the face of fierce resistance from the Maasai people, the Tanzanian government has nothing to do, they can never send troops and helicopters to drive the Maasai away, and they live in the savannah, and their whereabouts are erratic, even if they are discharged, they may not be able to catch these hunters, and if it triggers a greater conflict, the loss will be great.

If white people are more thieves, just when the Tanzanian government had nothing to do, the United Nations education organization gave the Tanzanian government an idea, that is, to gradually lure the young Maasai into modern society, and then influence the Maasai to slowly change their attitudes through them. The idea was far more clever and insidious than the coercive approach of the Tanzanian government, which was intended to wipe out the Maasai at the root, an ancient East African nation, in the same way that many white colonizers had used in the past.

Paluru was one of the young Maasai who were seduced by the group of young Maasai who persuaded his father, the head of the village, to hold an early coming-of-age ceremony, and at the age of 11 he left the village of Maasai with his two cows and more than 10 sheep and went to primary school in Arusha alone.

Speaking of the Maasai people, they have experienced the rule of colonizers and the independence of African countries, but they have never been assimilated, and this time it is the same, although a small number of young Maasai are attracted to study in schools, and some have even gone to major cities or European universities to continue their studies, but the vast majority of them still choose to return to their own communities after graduation.

These young people who have received modern education not only did not help the government to deal with their own people, but also helped their people to confront the government from the legal, economic and other aspects.

After graduating from high school, Paluru also returned to the Maasai village in the crater, and he was also worried about the future of the Maasai people, so he united several Maasai classmates to set up a Maasai tour company in Arusha, providing various guides and hunting services for European and American tourists who come here for sightseeing, aiming to increase the income of the Maasai people, and promote the culture and history of the Maasai people to the outside world.

The coming-of-age ceremony in Palulu's mouth seems to be very contradictory to his status as a middle school graduate, because in Hong Tao's view, this coming-of-age ceremony is a bit too bloody, too backward and too conflicting with the times, and should not be acceptable to a middle school student with a modern education. (To be continued......)