Tribal Wives - BBC2

sfhawke7w

has anyone seen this?

watched last week where a scottish girl stayed with a tribe for a couple of weeks and had an amazing effect on her.

but it is mad to watch, the women do everything, the men just sit back
at one point it was discussed about the girls been cut when they are born, the labia is cut away. a lot of them die in childbirth then.

last night's episode had single mum yvonne power living with the himba people in nambia (dont think that spelled right)

it was mad again to watch, she attended a wedding?? a 13 yr old girl (about that they dont really know there ages) was dragged (and i mean dragged) by her family to marry a man of 20yrs of age, she spent 3 days with him and then returns to her parents till they think she is old enough to go live with him. the men have 2 or 3 wives, the women have boyfriends when the husbands are away and the husbands would WORRY if they didnt have boyfriends!!!

yet the women are endearing and as the programme progresses Yvonne started to relax, she had tried at the beginning to fit in by dressing up like the himba women, had her hair braided and body painted but the women were laughing at her so she changed back to her own clothes, before she left she dressed up again and at one point she said to one of the himba women about them laughing at her and she said they hadnt been. I dont think they had either, not intentionally like western people do.

have to say cant wait for next week's episode.

would you do it? i actually think i would like to try. they have nothing no possessions as such and they are so relaxed about life - that's what western society is missing, we are all too caught up in the whole attitude of need, need need.

Hrududu

I saw this for the first time last night. I thought it was great, Yvonne was more than willing to muck in and go along with everything. And the whole wedding sequence really shocked her. It was so normal to the tribe, they were even laughing but the poor 13 year old was just in hysterics. I loved the relationship between Yvonne and the wife that didnt want to leave her when she was sick.

sfhawke7w

it is amazing how genuinely worried they get, the same in last week's episode, they were all worried she was going to die.

they seem to have amazing attitudes with the life they have then again they don't know anything else.

would you give it a go?

adox

Have a few episodes on Sky+ to watch. Looking forward to it more now after this thread.:)

Dennis the Stone

The wedding part was very difficult to watch...