The women of the tribe continue an ancient tradition, which is to keep your neck as long as possible, so it used a golden ring around her neck to stretch it to the point of incredible dimensions.
Not all women of the tribe get a woman giraffe, only those born on Wednesdays moon are considered the privileged of this honor, an honor for them because they are admired by the rest of the tribe, from an early age (6 years) start to put their neck rings made of brass wire.
It really is not elongated neck, is impossible. The secret of the giraffe women is declining in the ribs several inches on its normal position. The effect is that of a longer neck than usual. The wires are being incorporated as the years passed and will thus take his life, because if they die revealed by flaccid neck was broken by the neck muscles to not support the weight of the head.
Born in Burma, ethnic or giraffe women is gaining increasing importance Padaung in Thailand, where, because of the exile (Burmese forcibly displaced them from their land by being a rebel tribe, pursuing them later for it) have been established a large number of minorities belonging to the Kayan tribe, to which these women belong.
Respected in his native country, Thailand is not tradition, "is business, shopping mix, human zoo and tourist spectacle. So are the two villages of northern Thailand where it is artificially maintained by tour operators. The virtual "village arrest" under which they live has become even more stringent than ten years ago, when in case of illness received permission to go to the hospital in Mae Hong Son, Thai people near you. "At the hospital and do not let us go," said Ma Nang, a group of "giraffe women".
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