We'd just like to take note that this post is not aimed at generalizing the idea of beauty in African culture.
Our main focus for this post is on a video that we have come across about the Mursi Tribe of Southern Ethiopia. It features a woman exploring the tribes customs and values where she reveals the ideas behind the lip plate (see video below).
This lip plate is the tribes symbol for beauty, where the bigger the lip plate, the more beautiful you are.
In a way this parallels itself to western culture as well as we go from a simple piercing of the ears to extreme mutilation, for example having surgery to create elf ears, or more so as we know, the famous snake man and tiger man.
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