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Preamble:
With the continuous development of the times, people's enjoyment of clothing, food, housing and transportation has also been greatly improved, the unique food around the world is mouth-watering, and the convenient and comfortable way of travel also saves people a lot of physical strength, however, this lifestyle has made many people become "fat" in satisfaction.
The mainstream concept in modern society is still based on a slim and well-proportioned body, so in order to make themselves thinner and wear beautiful and sexy clothes, many women have begun to lose weight.
However, in this world, there is one country that is "fat is beautiful", and this country is Mauritania.
A country where "fat is beautiful".
Mauritania is a young country in Africa, and the economy is not developed, Mauritania is located in West Africa, with an area of about 1 million square kilometers and a population of about 4.5 million.
Its geographical location is very special, 75% of the country's land is in the Sahara Desert, which is not suitable for human habitation, so it is also known as the "desert country".
Women living in this country are fat for beauty, the fatter the better, the local custom is that obesity is the only criterion for beauty, and those slender women are ugly images.
Therefore, in order to make the local women become beautiful women, the girls here are "forced to feed" from the age of 4 or 5, giving them goat's milk and eating a lot of meat, so that the girls grow fat.
Not only that, in order to make the girl not only fat, but also round, they will also "grind the bones", let the girl roll back and forth in the sand, make it mellow and soft, and finally become an obese woman who "sees only the flesh, but no bones".
That's not enough, in order to give girls more "nutrition", families with a little money have also set up a "girls' obesity school", and the girls' parents do not hesitate to spend the few savings in the family to send their children to school.
And the purpose of their entry is not to study, but to eat constantly, which is their main task in the day, and many children will also have "side effects" after being forced to feed, and some of them are stretched out of "problems" under these high-density foods.
So why do people in this country have this "fat is beautiful" view?
The idea of "fat is beautiful" is formed
In fact, the main reason is because of "poverty", in the African region, many countries are poor, and there are many people who are so poor that they cannot afford to eat, and Mauritania is one of them.
Therefore, in a region where the people do not have enough to eat, it has become a desire to have enough to eat, and over time, this desire has become a basic local viewpoint.
That is, whose girl is fat, it proves that the family's economic situation is good, so it slowly changed from "full food" to the current "forced feeding", regardless of whether the child can eat it or not.
Therefore, if a local man marries an extremely obese woman, it will attract relatives and friends who come from far and wide to congratulate him, and if he marries an even more obese woman, then the wedding will become more and more grand.
On the other hand, if a local man marries a slender woman, he may receive comments from his neighbors, relatives and friends, so it is difficult for a slender woman to marry here.
Not only that, Mauritania is still one of the least developed countries, where women's marriages still rely on "the orders of their parents and the words of matchmakers".
If the boy has a crush on a girl from whose family, he can go directly to the woman's family to propose marriage, and the woman's father does not ask, and the woman's mother directly makes the decision, and if the woman's mother is satisfied, he can directly set the marriage date.
"Divorced woman" is popular
Moreover, the people of Mauritania are not proud of "starting from the beginning", on the contrary, they believe that divorce is the glory of a woman and a manifestation of a woman's charm.
If a woman has experienced multiple marriages, it means that she is very popular, she will also have a sense of superiority, and compared with a woman who has been divorced, a woman who has not been married once is more difficult to marry than a woman who has been divorced.
However, such a concept of "fat is beautiful" will continue after marriage, which also leads to their husbands worrying about living expenses, because they can eat since they were young, and they usually spend several times more than ordinary women on food, so many men call it "can't afford it".
Not only that, such a large amount of diet, which has been mandatory since childhood, has also led to the health of many local girls being affected by obesity, and this aesthetic concept has ruined the health of many girls and made their life expectancy much shorter than that of normal people.
Epilogue:
However, thanks to the development and popularization of modernization, people in Mauritania have been able to correctly recognize "obesity" and understand the harm of "obesity".
As a result, we have been campaigning against forced eating for about 20 years now, but there are still many stubborn people in the invisible corners of the area who still cling to this aesthetic concept, which is deeply harmful to the body.
Finally, do you have any thoughts on the alternative aesthetic of "fat is beautiful, divorced women are the most popular" here?
Bibliography:
Mauritanian women fattening are better to marry from the age of 5 to receive feeding-Global.com2013-07-17
This African tribe is fat for beauty, men want to marry fat girls-Guangming.com2016-07-01