I now learnt the importance of the following:
1. Why bathrooms and toilets were outside our houses and not inside.
2. Why we should not touch anything or anybody when we return from a barber shop or a funeral. You may return to normalcy only after having a bath as soon as you enter the house.
3. Why footwears were kept outside the house and not inside.
4. Why we need to wash our hands and feet when we returned from schools or after playing outside.
5. Why a mandatory 10 days isolation/quarantine (especially at a birth in the house or death in the family) in traditional households.
6. Why households must not cook if there's a dead body inside the house.
7. Why washing of clothes was done outside the house and not inside.
8. Why it was mandatory to have bath before getting into the house kitchen cooking.
9. Why once you have had bath, you were not supposed to physically touch those who were still to take bath.
Maintaining physical hygiene, social distance and cleanliness were laughed at, ridiculed, insulted, systematically. Breaking these traditions brick by brick, forcing people to discard these rituals for the fear of being isolated and force fit into a society blindly aping a different way of life. Now, all these habits & routines followed by people from time immemorial stand validated.
1. Why bathrooms and toilets were outside our houses and not inside.
2. Why we should not touch anything or anybody when we return from a barber shop or a funeral. You may return to normalcy only after having a bath as soon as you enter the house.
3. Why footwears were kept outside the house and not inside.
4. Why we need to wash our hands and feet when we returned from schools or after playing outside.
5. Why a mandatory 10 days isolation/quarantine (especially at a birth in the house or death in the family) in traditional households.
6. Why households must not cook if there's a dead body inside the house.
7. Why washing of clothes was done outside the house and not inside.
8. Why it was mandatory to have bath before getting into the house kitchen cooking.
9. Why once you have had bath, you were not supposed to physically touch those who were still to take bath.
Maintaining physical hygiene, social distance and cleanliness were laughed at, ridiculed, insulted, systematically. Breaking these traditions brick by brick, forcing people to discard these rituals for the fear of being isolated and force fit into a society blindly aping a different way of life. Now, all these habits & routines followed by people from time immemorial stand validated.
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