A huge circle through the lady’s lower lip with no lower front teeth is still a sense of pride and identification in some tribes in Africa. Most times to be able to wear a lip ring, a couple of ones lower front teeth are yanked out.
Environmental Graffiti reports:
In the modern world, it seems that the Mursi tribe in Ethiopia are battling a common dilemma. Their lip plates, and the cultural identity and political independence they signify, are a source of great pride for these people, but at the same time they acknowledge that this ancient practice, long since abandoned by other tribes, could point to their backwardness.
Today, many young girls have started to choose not to stretch their lips, despite being referred to distastefully as ‘Kwegu’ – the name of a poor neighbouring tribe – for doing so. Such young women may face difficulty in finding a Mursi husband, yet they seem determined to leave the practice behind for a changing world.
I'm pretty sure someone in Amsterdam or New York is going to see this and think it's a cool body modification. And then the next thing we'll see will be youths walking like this on the streets. I'm serious about it!
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