Fainting Tanzanian girls?

Gojira

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Fainting Tanzanian girls?

« on: September 11, 2008, 06:38:34 PM »

Does anyone have a clue as to why this would happen? I don't know much about tanzinian culture but this has made me officially confused.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7610744.stm


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Re: Fainting Tanzanian girls?

« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2008, 10:24:59 PM »

Fainting is culturally mediated response to situations, not just a biological one. It used to be more common in the British and American experience too(such accounts are far more common in Victorian times than our own). My guess is that is has something to do with women gaining more power over others in a society which allows them too little power.


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Re: Fainting Tanzanian girls?

« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2008, 03:49:46 AM »

just shooting from the hip here, but I would guess fainting itself is a biological function of stress, so similar stress levels would cause fainting in people world wide. The cultural aspect would be what different things cause that high level of stress. Apparantly, in this culture in Tanzania exams tend to cause much higher stress than they do in most other cultures...


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