HOW INDIGENOUS PEOPLE DON'T NEED ANYTHING FROM US...

The indigenous tribal people like the Maasai don't need anything from us - the Western people and that is a reason why they are chasing white women at Zanzibar or in Tanzania, hunting us as we would be the wild animals in the bush. Because there is nothing what they need from us. =

Quoted (blue bold text) from Instagram account 'masai_story'

Date of origin: 15.8.2024 

The link: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-sM-VYKSNq/

"There is nothing us western people have that indigenous people like the Maasai need".

Exactly! Indigenous people like the Maasai don't need anything from us - Western people and that's why they are chasing white women at Zanzibar, hunting us as we would be the wild animals in the bush. Because there is nothing what they need from us. Is there really someone who can eat this kind of lie? That Maasai people don't need anything from us ? If they would not really need anything from us, they would not hunt us, what is simply not happening. Neither at Zanzibar nor in Tanzania. It's truth that they don't need almost anything from us. They disrespect all other people, so how they could need something from us. But still there is one thing what we have and what they want to have. THE MONEY. It's enough to want only this from us and they will not let us be. They will continue to hunt us because they want our money - the same as they continued to raid the cattle in the past because they wanted more cows. If it was not possible by the good way - it was possible by the violence. They don't care and they didn't care. Each one cow in Boma was a good cow, however it was obtained. And each one shilling in their pocket is a good shilling, however it is earned.

"They don't need our medicine". 

Many of those Maasais who didn't need our medicine are dead already. Because Maasais are simply not undeadly people. Many people are dying in the Maasai bush by different reasons and diseases are one of those, maybe the most common. If they would have a possibility to travel to Europe and get health care there, many of them would be still alive. Maasais are not any magical culture. There are many cultures in the world and its people can use different local sources as medicine. Not only the Maasai. Local medicine is used EVERYWHERE in less serious health issues and it can be effective  but it has its limits. The Maasai (as many other cultures around the world) can treat common issues, for example cold, flue, small skin injuries, mild digestive problems, erectile dysfunction or headache. But with more serious issues like Malaria, typhus, HIV, cancer, different bacterial and viral infections, heart or blood diseases, serious problems with guts, big skin injuries, lung inflammation, they - of course - need different medicine than that one from the bush. Otherwise they could die easily as everyone else who doesn't have an access  to the treatment. To believe that Maasais will help with everything if someone will be sick is VERY DANGEROUS.

Maasais are visiting local hospitals often, they trust doctors and  also for small issues they are running to the village and if they would be seriously sick and they would have that possibility - they would gladly travel to Europe to save their life. The same as "white Maasais" are doing. "White Maasais" are living in the bush but once they are seriously sick, they are flying immediately back to Europe to get the best health care as possible - knowing very  well that Maasais with their herbs from the bush will not help them with serious problems. I would like to know why "White Maasais" didn't change their passports for tanzanian one. One of the reason could be the possibility to access Western medicine and Western health care once they would be seriously sick. "White Maasai" would never let her child die in the middle of Maasai bush. In a critical situation she would certainly not rely on herbs from the Maasai. Then she would most likely stop talking nonsense about Maasais how they don't need our medicine and how they can fix everything in the bush. They can't.  

"They did not have diseases until European settlers brought them to their lands." 

Finally next serious European guilt. People from Europe infected until that moment immortal Maasai people by  diseases. Before European settlers came to their lands and brought them "diseases", they all were dying in age 105 years old or just only from snake bites or when lions ate them. What is this for the absurd sentence that Maasais before European people didn't have any diseases??? How then they were dying ? Maasais as everyone else were fighting with different diseases whole their history and yes, some diseases could be brought to Tanzania with colonialists, but to tell that before Maasais didn't have any disease ? It simply cannot be truth. Maasais didn't fall down from the Mars planet, without any diseases. The history of Maasais started long time ago they came to Tanzania and they were surrounded by many different people, they were meeting many different tribes, different cultures when they were following Nile river down to look for good conditions for cattle and they were meeting different bacteria and viruses on the way which were killing them. Until today Maasais are dying from different diseases, begging for the  vaccines developed by Western people.

"They know how to heal themselves with nature, they know how to fix broken bones. They can build their own houses, know where to find water and green grass for their cattle."

Maasais can heal themselves in the case of not serious healthy issues, as everyone else. Also European people living in rural areas and in the villages know to treat themselves in natural way. What that woman is thinking about Western people ? How silly and incompetent Western people  have to be in her eyes? Oh God ! Magically she survived  that terrible time in Europe amongst Western people and  only now she feels finally safe and happy next to Maasai ! To find  a Maasai  and to infiltrate to that culture is nothing else but a good destiny. Not everyone is that lucky. To live with them and among them is a privilege. 

We are nobody to that woman compared to the wonderful Maasai people, we Western people, all of us, we are not even people, we are inferior people, people of the second category. And why? Probably because we are white. Otherwise, I don't see any other similarities and relations between us - people living in Europe or in America. 

We come from different countries, we live in different environments, we practice different religions, we are different in richness and living standards vary. We are differently educated, we live in very different ways of life and we have very different history, different ancestors and different cultures and customs. We also differ on an individual level, because one culture, one sect or just one religion does not define and guide us. And what is the most important thing is that we can decide by ourselves. But for this lady, we all are exactly the same. But why? Nothing suggests that we all can be the same, until we are not members of one culture that sets the direction and turns people into a herd, where individuality means absolutely nothing and it's not even desirable. The Maasai are therefore the same because they are led by something bigger and stronger than they are  themselves. But white people are and must be different. Nothing defines their boundaries except  of those who are members  of the sects. 

Seeing and reading her channel, there is nothing they are wrong about and there is nothing bad that can be detected in their culture full of great, valuable and super capable people who knows completely everything and who are doing that "everything" in the best possible way. We Western people are nothing but garbage to that lady and still we are clapping the hands, following her like she would think something nice about Western world and its people.

If they know how to fix broken bones - it's again nothing unbelievable. To fix broken legs or arms is not any magic, it's not impossible. The question is how that leg or arm will look after that. I know a Maasai who had injury in childhood and how they fixed it at home in the Maasai bush? Somehow. Somehow he didn't die because of broken leg (but who did?), anyway his leg is not working anymore as it should work and the difference  between healthy leg and that broken one is visible, especially when he is trying to walk. He is now disable person forever, limited in the movement, in ability to walk long distances or in the ability to run and he also feels the pain in the broken leg, but yes, doctors from Maasai bush fixed it.

Can Maasai build their cottages? Yes. They can. Actually the women in tribe are doing that in that culture. Can Maasai build normal house? No. They need to hire Swahili people for it. So again, what is such incredible on making cottages from mud, cow shits and from  wooden sticks, almost for free, using only the sources around. And all that on the random ground which they have for free, they don't need to pay for it, it's enough to chose the place and built there the cottage. Every culture living in rural areas can build local houses typical for themselves. But it's truth not everywhere women are doing it. In beautiful Maasai culture the women are used for almost everything while the men are sitting in the bush, gossiping, eating and drinking. Again, clapping hands. This is exactly the life we western women need! To be cheap servants for men  in everything. What a dream.

And if the Maasai know where to find water and grass for their cattle ? Yes, they know ! It's amazing ! Nobody else knows where is the water and grass in his/her living area, only Maasai people know. Simply unbelievable. 

"They are not 'uneducated', they just don't need our western kind of education They don't need to know how to read and write in order to defend their cattle from lions. They just need to know how to use a spear." 

They need to know how to read and how to write TODAY as everyone else needs it. Otherwise not any good future is waiting for them, except of selling their bodies or being the thieves. Without ability to read and write they would have a problem to get normal and respectful job to secure their family by the money which EVERYONE today needs. In the past the inability to read and to write caused them many problems, for example with lands, where colonialists could easily lie to them or press them to sign contracts which were not advantageous for the Maasai. Everyone knows how education is important in today's world but influencers are spreading fairytales how Maasais today need more to know how to use the spear than to get an education. Spear? Today? For what? The question is about which Maasais is she talking actually and in which century is she living amongst them? I was living in the bush with Maasais for longer, but I have never ever seen a Maasai with the spear in the hand, protecting cattle. And lions? How many lions is possible to observe in the bush which is the home for Maasais beachboys chasing women at Zanzibar? Exactly zero. The most of warriors have never seen the lion in their entire life. In the past Maasais need to know how to use the spear, yes. To protect the cattle and the boma was the most important task of a warrior in the past. But past in gone and obviously it doesn't plan to come back as far. Today is the most important task of Maasai warrior to get the money. And for this task they needs to know how to write, how to read (at least) and they also need to speak a foreign language. We ALL are living today, not yesterday and Maasais are not any exception.  Who will not adapt the new situation - will simply die. It's a rule of the nature and Maasai are still living. What means that they have adapted and instead of playing in the bush with spears, they are at Zanzibar chasing white women. Using English, knowing how to read and write, what is required for ability to catch a white woman and get her money for them and their families  in the bush. Many of them were learning how to read and write and basics of English or Italian language directly at the beach and why? Because they needed it obviously much  more than spears. There is nearly nothing what Maasais can do with the spear today. Maybe to be models for photographers or maybe to play the theatre for white tourists who will after clap the hands and pay for it. 

"Would you know how to use that spear to defend your livelihood? Would you know how to find bees and honey?"

Nobody today - even not Maasai needs to know how to use the spear (except of Maasai living inside of the national parks). But no-one from the Maasais at Zanzibar has a home in national park with possibility to face the lion. Here is the article about regions in Tanzania where the Maasai beachboys are coming from https://maasaisbeachboys.blogspot.com/2024/08/where-are-you-from.html

 And yes, if I would need to use the spear, I would learn how to use it. As everyone else in need.

The story about the bees and honey in Maasai bush is a sad story and to admire Maasais for that is crazy. Western people are breeding the bees, protecting each single one piece of bee, building the special hives for the bees where the bees can live in safe environment, making honey for us. Western people don't need to go to the forest to find the bees there because they have bees and hives at home and that's why we don't need to look for it in the forest. All the work around the bees is precisely, not only manipulation with bees itself but also the way how to take a honey from the hives without any damages and mess, without destroying whole the hive. 

But what about Maasais? How they can find the bees and how they can get the honey? They can find the hive on the tree in very easy way. They can simply see it while they are walking across the forest regularly. They can inform each other by phone where the hive was seen. 

And how they can get the honey and what I saw not once in the bush? The hives which I saw in Tanzania were always high in the trees. What Maasais are doing then? They are climbing up to the tree, often in the night when the bees are sleeping and resting. If they are next to the hive finally, they put the fire inside of the hive. Normal open fire. Suddenly poor bees are flying out wildly, scared, desperate, not knowing what's happening, loosing orientation. And many of them are flying to the nocturnal sky burning alive and of course dying. Then after this cruel theatre when most of bees died, Maasais with the big machete will cut the whole hive, which will fall down on the ground where other Maasais (also children) are waiting for the honey. Then, directly there on the ground all of them are eating honey like the pigs. Everyone is dirty until ears from it. Why someone should admire the Maasai for this inhuman and extra-ordinary cruel way how to get the honey. I was pretty shocked always when I saw it. But, people are clapping hands because Maasai can find the poor bees. Yes, they can find the hive in the forest.. Unfortunately.

"Would you cherish nature and the words of your elders as guidance for your life?"

How Maasais cherish the nature we could see on the example how they can get the honey from the hive. Me personally I didn't see them to cherish anything expect of money and their culture. The sad story with bee is not the only one example about how they cherish the nature. Next example is how they are treating the snakes. Snakes are important as every other animal and we have to protect them. And of course some snakes are very dangerous for the people and nobody is happy to see such a snake near the house full of children. But people in  Australia are dealing also with venomous animals and they don't kill them for each costs, but they try to protect them. And Maasai ? What Maasai are doing ? They automatically without any thinking will kill each snake they will see, immediately and automatically. Every snake near the boma needs to die. And not every snake in Tanzania is dangerous for people, there are many snakes which are hurtless and useful. Can Maasai recognize them ? Are Maasai trying to learn about the snakes in effort to protect them? No. No way. They will kill each snake they will meet. Easy. Without any effort to understand more about snakes, their function in the nature. It's enough to observe them how they treat the dogs, stray dogs or their dogs, or cats. How dogs are really scared in the Maasai bush, to get closer to human? And why? Because Maasai cherish them? Certainly they don't. The only animals they are treating in nice way are animals they are giving them some kind of the profit. Animals which means money for them (cows, goat, sheep and chicken) or animals which can help them (donkeys). Here their love to the nature and its creatures is ending. Maasai at Zanzibar will throw the empty bottle from soda to the forest without any problem, laughing when someone complains about it.

And if we would cherish the words of our elders as guidance for our life? Who from Western people doesn't respect his/her parents or grandparents? And what our parents are doing if not giving us the guidance for our life? I don't understand why is she writing about such things, like it would be not normal for us - Western people - to respect parents and elders. From which kind of family she is - wondering how Maasais are great for obeying elders. Western people are in general doing the same, so I didn't get any point here. We also are obeying elders and our parents are  guiding us through the life, more or less. Only we have more freedom in the adult age - to decide freely what to do with our life.

"Would you agree to sacrifice some of your freedom for the sake of your community, your culture?"

Yes of course. If I would be a member of a sect which is abusing people and pressing the value and power of individual somewhere deep to non-existence, I would sacrifice some freedom for the sake of that sect. Many victims of the different sects in Europe were loosing personal freedom, also personal opinion and personal power of individual for the sake of the community. But Western people mostly don't like the sects because of the manipulation, pressure and abuse inside of such a community. The Maasai themselves are the biggest victims of their own culture where the community is thousands time more important than a person. If someone wants to live like that, in the strong sect which has the power to decide  everything, it's possible also in Europe. Mostly who wants to live such a life are people who don't like to be personally responsible for anything, also not for themselves and for their own life. They will better put responsibility on the shoulders of entire community.  

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"Happy to be given the opportunity to go to tour in Switzerland in November, talking about my 12 years living amongst the Maasai."

It's crazy that someone in Switzerland invited her to talk about years living among the Maasai. They didn't read her posts and her speech ? How she disrespect Western people in very visible way? How she raises Maasai above others, especially above people from Western world. Now the only question with no exact answer is if she really believe in all what is she speaking about or she needs to speak in that way if she wants to have followers and enough visitors in her boma with ability to take money from them for  trips or for just a night in the cottage. 

The bush in Tanzania is magical and very beautiful place where to be, where to stay and I love that place from whole my heart but it's possible to promote the Maasai bush also in the real light, with all the dangers which are waiting there for us - white women. And it's also possible to promote Maasai culture as it is, with all the good things but also with all the bad or confusing things, why not. The bush will be still the same beautiful, only people would face a reality and can be ready for it. The life in illusion which this lady is creating can be dangerous. And at the end, it's only lie and nothing else. Why she needs to lie about Maasai culture and its people. Everyone will see reality sooner or later and she will become to be a liar in the eyes of many. She can be after years with Maasai so destroyed that she really lost the ability to see the things in real way and she started to be mad, or she knows everything with clean mind, only she needs to earn money and she thinks that good image of Maasai will prepare better environment for her business. However, the truth will come on the surface once, at least in the individual stories of those who were caught and cheated by the Maasai. There is nothing as beautiful Maasai culture anymore and I feel sorry for it. If nobody will stop the Maasai in doing crimes - it will be worse and worse each day and that culture known from the past will stop to exist.

Note: Those who are earning money on Maasai decided they will not provide  any space to react in discussion for people with different thinking. All the comments which don't fit well the thoughts of these influencers are immediately deleted and users who were writing it are blocked, without any explanation and without any sorry. It's not possible to disagree with anything these women are writing in their social media. Every single person with different opinion or experience who could disrupt the image of "beautiful Maasai culture" in comments is simply vaporized (George Orwell - 1984). They often also block the friends of "unwanted people", in advance - to be sure that no one (potentially threatening their business) will get a chance to react in comments. 

Each article on this blog which quotes influencers is here only due the absence of possibility to react at place of origin. And because influencers affect many people in decision what to think about the Maasai and if to feel safe among them (in the financial way, emotional way or physical way) - there has to be a place for open discussion, for warnings - just because the bad decision can lead an individual to the big personal lost in the life. All the text here written with black letters is only a reaction for posts about Maasais from different social media built on PERSONAL OPINION OR EXPERIENCE of our authors. Any comments in this blog will be not removed from here, even not such comments which are here by intention to beautify and to romanticize Maasai and its culture. Everyone can freely discuss here, under the article in comments. Thank you for understanding.