Back when i was 6th grade, They always say if you are tall your circumcised(tuli). Is this an old gag? Or are they somehow related? in what ways? tnx just curious
2007-02-15 09:38:15 · 16 answers · asked by E.S ZEBULUN 2 in Travel ➔ Asia Pacific ➔ Philippines
I mean not all filipinos but my jerk classmates.
2007-02-15 09:41:18 · update #1
In the past, and even at present (especially in rural areas), Filipino kids are scared undergoing circumcision as such is done using "pinote," or a bolo-like tool to cut off the excess skin of a boy's organ. Circumcision appears like this: the boy is instructed to firmly close his eyes, his arms held by a stronger adult to prevent the kid from trembling or running away from the "session," and for the "albularyo" or quack doctor also to work on the circumcision smoothly. Since the session is done in an open area, neighbors can witness boys in their community being circumcized or "pinotized". Other boys in line watch in horror as the boy in position screaming and crying in too much pain soon after skin is cut off and with the wound sprinkled with crushed herbs' leaves. Traditional circumcision, or "tuli" (in Filipino) does not use anaesthesia. Those uncircumcized boys who witnessed what they can consider as "the scariest moment of their lives," shun from the regular mass circumcision done once or twice a year in their community. As a result, to help parents convince their little boys in getting a "tuli," they make stories like if you're "tuli", you will grow taller, and if you're tall, many women will like you, or you will become a basketball star, and other similar stories that may help boost a kid's willingness in finally joining the others in the "pinote session." So until this time, the thought lingered like it has become a Filipino belief or superstition.
2007-02-15 10:45:55 · answer #1 · answered by E. Lee Ganon 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
It is a myth. It evolves from a collective desire of most Filipino men to be tall since being tall is associated also to male attractiveness. It also evolve from experience in the past when boys had their circumcision at the age of puberty, which is also the time when increase in height and build accelerate in time. However, this isn't true. I am tall, but I never experienced the pain of circumcision. At the age of 15, I was only 5'6. By the time I was 16, I was already 5'8". On my 17th birthday, I was already 5'10. I was circumcised immediately after birth.
2007-02-15 12:36:59 · answer #2 · answered by Salsa Hermano 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whoever told you that, they're lying. I'm filipino, I don't think that's true, and it doesn't matter if you're tall or short. The only way they'd know is if they looked at other guys' privates. Those people who think that are just being stereotypical or someone who thinks of something without knowing the facts.
2007-02-15 18:40:48 · answer #3 · answered by clipperpistonfan27 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm Filipino and I have never heard of that.
The one thing I did hear was: if smoke follows you during a BBQ, you ate ka ka when you were a baby.
oh, and to the poster saying all Filipino men have the collective desire to be tall is absolutely full of it.
2007-02-15 19:41:25 · answer #4 · answered by ookaninam2000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That was a joke in the 60s. In the past, when they say " ang tangkad2 mo." Sagot ng iba, " di pa nga tuli yan!" Young generations do not hear anymore about it.
2007-02-17 14:53:14 · answer #5 · answered by junior 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats just something to tell a pinoy to encourage him to undergo the circumcision without complaint. For sure they all want to grow to be tall so they want to have the procedure.
2007-02-15 10:28:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
that's only a connotion.
on the 6th grade, puberty period comes in. and every male kid in the philippines undergoes circumcision. it just happens that after they undergone the process, they become tall because of puberty.
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2007-02-15 12:37:04 · answer #7 · answered by unique999_2000 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I never heard of that but I know last time when you are not circumcised,specially teenagers, they will make fun of you. They are proud if they done it.It's like:
I'M A MAN!!!! HA HA HA HA.......
2007-02-17 07:23:39 · answer #8 · answered by Nikki 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For crying out loud, Chablis, how do you know that? Do they just say, Hey, my buto is not cut? Or do you inquire. I just think it's odd that you know that. I have female friends and I don't know if their privates are shaved, or whatnot. Very weird answer, there, and earns you a thumbs down.
2007-02-15 11:00:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It would be hard to beat E. Lee Ganon answer as the best answer. Well done.
I am 5'11'' and haven't been snipped.
2007-02-15 13:32:04 · answer #10 · answered by PC 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋