Chinese man 'ate child's brain' to cure epilepsy

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19 Mar 2010, 4:54 am

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19 Mar 2010, 5:30 am

So sad.

Reminds me of those places men believe having sex with a virgin will cure them of AIDS. With the result of rapes on heartbreakingly young girls. Even gang rape of infants.
There have also been witch burnings in the belief that it is caused by curses...

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19 Mar 2010, 5:31 am

Now, that's stupidity at its finest.

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19 Mar 2010, 8:35 am

:eew: That's sick.

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19 Mar 2010, 9:32 am

Demented demon topic

Chinese justice will be swift.

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19 Mar 2010, 10:27 am

Why take special note of his ethnicity? If he was a white skinned cacausian man, the title would have been 'Man ate child's brain to cure epilepsy'.

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Some people in the Southern realm of Africa also believe the same regarding albinos. Hence, while approximately 25% of women in general in South Africa have been raped, the rape rate towards albinos is exceeding 90%.

Witch burnings are common in many parts of the 3rd world, especially here in India.

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19 Mar 2010, 10:29 am

In China they'll eat anything.

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19 Mar 2010, 12:07 pm

Somewhat similar to trepanation, I suppose.

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19 Mar 2010, 12:54 pm

Khan_Sama wrote:

Witch burnings are common in many parts of the 3rd world, especially here in India.

I haven't heard of it in any other situation other than AIDS, of course it is logical that the kind of burning is only part a general mindset.

I had heard of widow burning in India. Though I had guessed that that practice was largely disappearing. And witch burning in Asia in general was new to me. I guess I've always thought it was a largely Christian thing. What is the progression in these witch burnings, do they get a trial, what have they done to have suspicion raised against them? Sorry for my morbid interest, but my great great(or something) grand mother was one of the last women to be burned as a witch in Scandinavia:p

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19 Mar 2010, 1:00 pm

Amazing what some people will do based on pseudoscience. The child was murdered horrendously.

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19 Mar 2010, 2:50 pm

Khan_Sama wrote:

Why take special note of his ethnicity?

Maybe it's not so much his ethnicity but rather his nationality?

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19 Mar 2010, 3:12 pm

MissConstrue wrote:

Khan_Sama wrote:

Why take special note of his ethnicity?

Maybe it's not so much his ethnicity but rather his nationality?

Perhaps

Yasmine wrote:

Khan_Sama wrote:

Witch burnings are common in many parts of the 3rd world, especially here in India.

Not burning per se, but killings in general.

I have briefly mentioned it in this post:

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postp2618963.html#2618963

Widow burnings have become increasingly rare. I have come across only a single report in the last couple of years, and it was not forced - the old lady decided it by herself, and the villagers actually tried to stop her.

Generally, people are targetted as practicing witchcraft or black magic by their neighbours so that they can take over their property. Other reasons are revenge, petty conflicts, etc.

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19 Mar 2010, 3:50 pm

Khan_Sama wrote:

MissConstrue wrote:

Khan_Sama wrote:

Why take special note of his ethnicity?

Maybe it's not so much his ethnicity but rather his nationality?

Perhaps

Almost certainly, that's an absolutely standard style of phrase for the press here, and I guess the Australians aren't too different. The headline would certainly have been, for instance, "Belgian man eats child's brain" (and we still wouldn't know the ethnicity of the Chinese - or Belgian - man unless it was specifically mentioned.)

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19 Mar 2010, 4:48 pm

Thanks for clarifying that point.

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19 Mar 2010, 6:32 pm

Not that I'm a great fan of formulaic press writing. It seems no article is complete unless the age of each and every person is given... "Miss Miggins (47) of Snodgrass Rd, Hartlepool was disgruntled today." :roll:

Though I dunno. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that most news outlets (everywhere) are generally biased against all foreigners. It's not so much that they are sweet and loving and mean no offence to the (insert nationality here)s, but that there's a low-level degree of contempt for any and every Ausländer. :lol:

Hmm. Is "any and every" as stupidly redundant a phrase as the lamentable "any way, shape or form"? Of such things is my life made... :roll: :roll: :roll:

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