Grinding Teeth: The Wild Indonesian Coming Of Age Ritual

I feel like I aged just like 30 years so now I'm gonna adopt who may or may not be able to eat meat would teenagers traditionally grind down their canine teeth in a ritual called Missoni it's supposed to spiritually break us from our animalistic instincts and ancestors when we complete this ritual were officially an adult and a lot to have sex and marry today is the last day of my grandmother's funeral which means it's my turn to cut spiritual ties with her and be somewhere [Music] in height we're in hideaway until we get called up to go do our tooth filing and by then we'll be an adult according to Bonnie spiritual spirituality you'd already come to mind secondary - yeah it's about control yourself yeah anger control your anger your jealousy maybe had enough why'd you punch buggy on Japan ham - okay that the supreme Kevin Cassini harness not the [ __ ] Giggy and I think they're going to do the 2000 at 11:00 and now they're saying you have to get ready in 15 minutes and I think there's so many events that are happening and there's a lot of community miscommunication and communication between the higher the priests and the people drama already in the meantime traditional priests we call them Sangha are busy prepping the tools each one has its own specific purpose will be never come back they're too young a lanky Kotaku knock on window give me a hypnotist and Agena deportability die - opposite - you need it up [Music] [Music] [Music] then you also sing either evil force to sing that becomes an immunity and the Commission like it is a partner the rebalance need we will open our eyes did you get millenia pathology 2018 fashionable I hope care Morgan number in my keys and no friends no aesthetic [Music] now I'm on my way to the ceremony I know I've said this before but I really feel like a Korean a spoiled overly dressed one who's too good to step on the dirty ground [Music] my dad told me not to close my eyes he joked that in the past people were poisoned when they opened their mouth so you have to watch out for the haters while you're shining [Music] I was warned not to smile except in the mirror to avoid being cursed the minute you lay down like you really feel when it's like such a serious ceremony because it's like when I'm gonna get back to you now that they're done with the PM skew my sisters are next [Music] we might have faked our smiles for this picture but if you see my parents their joy couldn't be more real maybe it's because Masanga is believed to be a generational ritual and the final duty parents will carry out for their children also Hasani probably has more to do with family pride than self-discovery judging by how many group photos I was for sitting [Music] any minute [Music] [Music] there's a lunch break now and I'm gonna test them on youtubes on this piece of Sunday something bothering me Lamia with my new thing so now I'm an adult who can't who may or may not be able to eat meat and buy property Chris might still taste the same but am I as capable at life does this mean I have my [ __ ] together since I lost my Franks I've been asking myself what being an adult really means in Bali I don't know if I feel like an adult maybe maybe I'll never feel like maybe I'll get there someday somehow but right now I think an adult for a lot of people it's like fulfilling the parents wants and needs the community wants engaged which is like like I didn't have class like what's next what's next - like are you waiting for my wedding is that what I think I see this experience in this traditions is something that I fully respect a lot of outsiders have been stuck in this perspective of what Valley means I think I'm reclaiming the culture by kind of being Balinese without having prior without being affected by the fire of use of what Bali if I don't think the Balinese are doing of this culture because of the white gaze I think the more the white days happened the more they're seeing it as an opportunity to continue their culture but in the end none of that really matters this is still my roots and what made me who I am today so [ __ ] cheesy I thought that would be cool enough for the only one that wouldn't like it let's see if I kept is so I'm gonna do a curse yeah but the gutter curse you

Channel: VICE Asia

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Id: RwGNP13LWi8

Length: 10min 59sec (659 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 30 2018