Ranking Coming of Age Ceremonies From Around The World

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Pretty much every culture in the world has a coming-of-age ceremony to mark a child’s passage into adulthood. For some, it’s just a fun celebration. For others, it’s a brutal, scarring horror show. In today’s video, I look at some of the wildest rites of passage on the planet and ask… would you do it?
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www.nytimes.com/1978/01/04/ar...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debutante
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotillion
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincea...
tokyoesque.com/seijin-no-hi-j...
• What is Seijinshiki? C...
www.chabad.org/library/articl...
www.britannica.com/topic/Bar-...
suampripadnews.wordpress.com/...
www.boldsky.com/yoga-spiritua...
groups.etown.edu/amishstudies...
blueandgoldonline.org/16642/r...
roar.media/english/life/cultu...
listverse.com/2019/02/22/10-a...
bali.com/bali/travel-guide/cu...
villabossibali.com/en/blog/me...
www.azcentral.com/story/news/...
barbbooks.wordpress.com/2016/...
www.bbc.com/travel/article/20...
www.ancient-origins.net/histo...
juanmatiasblogforenglish.file...
site.uit.no/ruhta/dipo/
• The Dipo Ceremony
• Bruce's First Matis Ri...
pib.socioambiental.org/en/Pov...
www.brilliant-ethiopia.com/ha...
joyrobin.wordpress.com/2015/0...
www.worldhistory.org/article/...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypteia
plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyc...
www.denverartmuseum.org/en/ed...
maasai-association.org/ceremo...
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Intro
2:50 - A Good Time
5:06 - Religious Rites
8:40 - Fertility Rituals
11:23 - Feats of Skill
19:01 - Extreme Ceremonies
24:50 - Sponsor - Ground News

[@jasonwomack4064]

Getting that first power bill in your name, and discovering dad yelling about lights and the thermostat wasn't a sign of mental illness.

[@jemimalamb78]

😂😂😂...this is so true!!

[@Yezpahr]

The thermostat... You have awoken multiple face palpitations with that one word. The vein, the lip at multiple locations, the eye, nostril flexing and fake teeth clattering briefly reared their heads.

[@danielray6060]

Chicken noodle soup

[@user-un8tv1pp8m]

With me it was calculating the economic cost/km average on my car. Brutal.

[@JulieCaptivatedinFl]

That running around the house did NOT make the light bill go up.

[@purrito4424]

My coming of age ceremony was the worst of all- I had to get a job.

[@Gersberms]

A big let-down all around.

[@matthewjason14]

and having to accept that your parents were right all along.. me: "I can't wait to be an adult!!" my mom: "and you'll wish you were a kid again as an adult!"

[@sirmounted8499]

I was pissed when I found out I had to get a job, but they reassured me that when you get even older you don't have to work anymore and you can do whatever you want. Looks like that ain't happening with our aging population, they are raising the retirement age slowly but surely and there seems no end in sight. I will probably have to work until I'm in my 80's or dead.

[@ivankraljevic1]

Working class hero is something to be

[@rmc224]

Dear God, Why...WHY?

[@Miannemih]

I will say Rumspringa is hardly a “choice”. They go out and come back only to be guilted into staying and threatened with full shunning if they decide to leave. Being shunned means never seeing your family, not being allowed back even for funerals and so on. Of course it varies by community but really, its not a real “gift of choice”. Its a “go see what the sinners do and come back to us where its safe and you wont go to hell” situation. Also a lot of communities don’t even practice Rumspringa anymore.

[@VealCalf1]

The severing of family and community ties is a powerful tool used by a lot of fundamentalist religious groups, especially ones that discourage socializing with "outsiders." The FLDS church has been using it lately, as have Jehovah Witness, and some Baptist groups and Pentecostals. They simply refer to it as "disfellowshipping"

[@DamianSkinner]

Mine was turning 18 and discovering my parents had already ruined my credit and getting arrested for bouncing a check. Clearly financial literacy wasn’t part of my childhood

[@thewheekshow5537]

Omg same 😅

[@Youbetternowatchthis]

American youth really doesn’t have it easy 😮

[@DamianSkinner]

@@busimagen I wrote a check to a Schlotzsky’s sandwich place for $11. The check bounced. I never saw any of the mail that came to my parents house and there was a warrant for my arrest. I get pulled over for not making a signal at a light and get arrested, I was 19. Lol had no idea how checkbooks worked. The judge was very kind and explained it all to me.

[@DamianSkinner]

Yessir!@@busimagen

[@jlpaintersllc-kr3hq]

You must be puertorrican

[@b3lashe]

I'll never forget - I lived in a town outside of an Amish community in the early 90s, and there was a kid on Rumspringa walking down the street with a boom box on his shoulder, blasting 90's rap. Amazing.

[@DiZoSoMom]

I really want him to be blaring the Weird Al version of Gangsta’s Paradise- Amish Paradise.

[@Hollylivengood]

Are you familiar with the train riding traveler kids? I have met a lot of the traveler kids who are Amish on their Rumspringa. Boys and girls. They ruled. Their were the only ones who knew how to do everything, get a temp job at construction is not a problem for them. They were also other worldly good hearted,.

[@b3lashe]

@@DiZoSoMom That would definitely have been better - it was around the time it came out too, but racking my brain it's hard to remember exactly what it was, I just remember it was such a funny juxtaposition.

[@b3lashe]

@@Hollylivengood I'm not, that's awesome! I did go see a few barn raisings, it was really awesome to see them come together to do that. Also... their pies were the best!

[@lentoperoavanzo4007]

@@b3lasheComing up in the deep south, it blew my mind when I went to Amish country in central PA and had some of the best fried chicken I’ve ever eaten

[@orangechicken5051]

I am a Xhosa man from South Africa. I had to undergo unanaesthetised circumcision to become a man. During this time, we had men from our community speak to us about what it means to be a man, the idea being that you would gain wisdom through your pain/trials. I was told it would be the most extreme pain I had ever felt and while that was true, 4 weeks later when I was home, I stubbed my toe in the dark and had a new most extreme pain I had ever felt. Pain is relative. The pain was rather similar to getting your foreskin pinched in a zipper...for 2 weeks. The whole healing process was about 3 weeks. In the past, you would also be living off the land for 3 - 6 months. Interestingly, our brother tribe, the Zulu people had this manhood initiation ritual abolished because Shaka Zulu hated that he would lose fighting age warriors for so long, so he changed their ritual to walking over hot coals and thorns. I think they've since dropped the thorns, but they continue the hot coals. But I'm not Zulu, so I don't know everything about it

[@meklavier4664]

Question, won't disease be easily spread thru such unhygienic procedure

[@Elora445]

@@meklavier4664 I guess that depends on their practice, they might have used sterile tools. Key word being might. If not, then they are playing with death.

[@tux_duh]

​@@meklavier4664 i mean, yes, but obviously after so many generations they find ways to do it that dont cause infection. Humans arent so stubborn as to not wash a blade or burn it in a fire to clean it

[@Khornecussion]

@@meklavier4664 ( They're not exactly known for hygienic surgery procedures. It's a trial for a reason. )

[@bobbyjackson4452]

I agree about the stubbed toe, especially when it's the pinky toe. I've taken hits to the nutz that put me on the ground, but stubbing my pinky toe did that AND I was in tears from the pain. I walked with a limp for three weeks after that.

[@Nturner822]

Once had a young aboriginal man disappear from work one day and his mate just said “he’s gone walkabout” like it was perfectly normal…3 months later he showed up like nothing happened. We just shrugged and got on with it because he was such a strong fit worker

[@yomama9712]

Can I please have the company name good sir?? I too want to do some walkabouting now and then - in times of need

[@Tinil0]

@@yomama9712 You have to actually walkabout, not be lazy like @yomama9712. Sorry.

[@yomama9712]

@@Tinil0 The big dingus

[@Tinil0]

@@yomama9712 We still love him

[@jimdennis2451]

"YOU TOOK THE BATHROOM KEY WITH YOU!!!"

[@LaurieAnnCurry]

Give Rachel a raise! With the “painting the town red” joke she has officially earned the Joe Scott dad joke badge of honor

[@Hallgrenoid]

1:40 Lmao. Petition to permanently replace "squeezed" with "squozen" for the past participle form of "squeeze".

[@niravdarmesh5278]

I've been using squozen for several years now, thanks to John McWhorter ("Lexicon Valley").

[@dad_jokes_4ever226]

I think this is known as the " Karl Pilkington " version of squeezed

[@scottcates]

Past Tense: "squeezened"

[@Nikedemos]

@@dad_jokes_4ever226weird, innit

[@dimeboy5509]

Had squozen? Did squoze? Hmm.. ?​@@scottcates

[@EndaMRacing]

Hi Joe just want you to know I've been watching your channel since I was 12 now I'm going to be turning 20 soon. So your channel is an example of me coming of age 😂

[@joescott]

Wow!

[@yomama9712]

@@joescott I wish there was an Owen Wilsson-emote on youtube. But .. Wow! (And I wanna quote Jarhead for your coming of age: Welcome to The Suck)

[@adrielburned6924]

​@@yomama9712I literally said wow in my head in Owens voice. Lol😂😂😂 ❤

[@perennials118]

I participated in the debutante ball in highschool when I was 16 years old. I'm from Melbourne, Australia and this happened in 2013. It was a really fun event, we got dance lessons for a couple of months beforehand and I chose one of my best friends to be my partner! Got to pick out a beautiful white dress to wear for the night and rode in a stretch hummer to the building it took place in and had a tonne of fun. Some of the teachers at school did not agree with the concept of debutante balls as they consider it to be degrading to women to be presented to society for the male gaze etc. However the way I saw it was that I wanted to dress up like a princess and learn to waltz and dance the night away with my best friend and that is exactly what I did.

[@Ian_sothejokeworks]

I keep imagining the guy who just keeps slipping on his 4th trip across the backs of the bulls. He's like 27, "Better luck next year, kid!" 😂

[@meatharbor]

Mine was developing two separate, disabling psychological disorders, a heroin addiction, a potentially fatal liver disease and sleeping on a slab of cardboard under an overpass for a little over a year. Good times.

[@RezValla]

Isn’t life grand

[@grmpEqweer]

Hope things are better now?

[@meatharbor]

@@grmpEqweer Oh, yeah. That was, like, fifteen years ago, so they're defin- kind of better. They're good enough for the time being. 🙃

[@Strype13]

Out of sheer curiosity, is there any information on how often Vanuatu men die (or end up paralyzed) while performing their "land diving" ritual? Applying simple common sense, one can only assume that number to be much, much higher than zero.

[@odge7519]

According to ABC news, there is only one recorded death, since the ritual is performed with much care (the vines used have to be in season for them not to break, and are selected carefully by older men on the tribe) The incident occurred in 1974, when the queen of England was visiting the country. The englishmen convinced the tribesmen to perform the jumps for the queen, but since it was the wrong season, several vines broke and the men fell. Only one suffered a serious injury: he broke his back and died later in a hospital

[@spacecaptain9188]

I'm curious as to how they avoid dislocations, ligament tears, and other serious strains.

[@Strype13]

@@odge7519 Appreciate that information, odge!

[@Strype13]

@@spacecaptain9188 Yeah, no doubt about it! That whiplash they receive when the vine maxes out looks awfully unforgiving, doesn't it?

[@HistoryNerd808]

Don't live there now but growing up around the spawn of Satan known as fire ants, the ant ritual with a much more painful breed just makes me cringe.

[@oxylepy2]

Stopped at a rest stop in Texas, had a bunch crawl up my pant leg and bite the * out of me. I was like 7. Yeah Fire Ants need to be illegal.

[@HaveAGreatDay54]

I don't know about 'coming of age', but when I worked as a water meter repair technician in Ocean Springs Mississippi 20 years ago, we did not earn our initiation until we had to repair a meter that's housing was filled with a fire ant colony. There is no way to prevent getting stung in that situation. The festering swarm of those little demons still permeates my thoughts to this day.

[@jmodified]

I once stepped on a nest while carrying a pane of glass over very uneven ground (no safe place to set it down) and so wasn't able to brush them off for a minute or so. I got 150 or so bites. The pain wasn't bad, but the itching for the next few days was brutal. Over the years I've become somewhat adapted to the venom though. I no longer get the itchy bumps that later blister, just mild itching for a day or so at the site of the bite.

[@Nipplator99999999999]

Cow-killer velvet ants are the cause of 8 out of 10 times I've been naked in public as an adult...other 2 were actual fires.

[@grmpEqweer]

​@@Nipplator99999999999 I've seen cow-killers running around, but never got stung.

[@geminlove24]

My husband is Gambian and FGM is a major source of contention and we've actually spoke about it. Understand that different cultures have different ideas that are contrary to the West that may be deemed as weird or taboo. However, there are just some things that are objectively wrong.

[@ndawn90]

Yeah, FGM is where I draw the line. Respecting other cultures is one thing, mutilating little girls with the express purpose of removing their sexual pleasure and "preserving virginity" for a man with no anesthetic and very little sanitization is a whole other territory of not ok under any circumstances. And before anyone comes for me, I'm not a fan of circumcision either (unless it's actually medically necessary).

[@FDJUwe]

​@ndawn90 whenever you draw the line, you are just showing your bias. You just don't draw the line. Any practice that is not rooted in critical thinking and human well being, is simply not humanistic. Religious practices are anti-human in nature. I empathize with all genders and ages, so I don't draw the line at the one that would just be painful to me personally if I were a member of that culture. Most of the rites are meant to humiliate or make people feel expendable.

[@FDJUwe]

Absolutely, objectively wrong is definitely possible to determine: is it for the well-being of the human in question, with evidence to prove it? Do they have the option or even the capacity to accept doing it or not? Peer pressure can manipulate this answer, so if peer pressure is involved, it's definetly a NO to this question, and in result, objectively wrong.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

And yet, the US happily carries out MGM on the majority of its males, without anyone batting an eyelid.

[@VercenGetorix525]

Not all Amish groups allow Rumspringa. The old order groups won't allow it Great video as always Joe

[@shanecrothers5792]

So you can't escape

[@therocinante3443]

Some of the most fun I've ever had was with young Amish during that time

[@VercenGetorix525]

@@shanecrothers5792 well, you're not wrong for thinking about it that way... that's for sure

[@VercenGetorix525]

@@therocinante3443 I live outside of Philadelphia, so I've gone to Lancaster and have been exposed to Amish people, but I've never actually hung out or have gotten to know anyone. I can only imagine haha 😂

[@jahbern]

@@shanecrothers5792exactly. And that’s the dangerous part. The cultish factions that people need to ability to escape from the most do not give young people freedom to escape. It’s tragic.

[@testedTransgressor]

13:04 the Walkabout also gives them the opportunity to connect with their ancestors, which can help to guide the young person into becoming the person best suited for carrying on the family lineage.

[@adjeikonaduelvis7229]

With reference to the Dipo ceremony of Ghana, the young girls are made to swallow a hard boiled egg whole without biting or breaking the egg. It is believed that if a girl is not able to swallow the egg and bites or breaks it she is biting "literally" into her own eggs and that will affect her giving birth💀

[@SuchtFaktorHoch10]

sure. it is not about biting something else... *winkwinknodgenodge* 😉

[@lekiscool]

A lot of the painful ones really do make me go “why.” Especial when they are still really young but old enough to remember.

[@Jay_one]

Did you say “squozen”? 🤣🤣🤣

[@billyalarie929]

SAME

[@krigsgaldr7603]

I wonder if it's a Karl Pilkington reference "he squozed me head"

[@mindfulmadeline]

Right?!

[@AlvinHolguin]

Literally just went "huhhh 🤔🤔" when I heard that.

[@RCAvhstape]

Now I have a new favorite word, replacing "beclowned".

[@mentat1341]

As a Mexican, "They go haaaard!" had me rolling 😆

[@Hollylivengood]

They go hard in Tennessee as well. It's a world wide reaction of the rest of the county, seeing a full on Quinceanera in full thrash. Haaaaard.

[@jasonsmall5602]

For those reading from the Torah for the Bar/Bat mitzvah, it can be pretty tough (clearly not as hard as some later categories), both because you may need to memorize the tune (and how to pronounce the words) to a quite long passage, and also because you are performing in front of lots of people. Many Jews also have a haircutting ceremony for boys at 3 years.

[@spacecaptain9188]

I didn't have any of these, but I grew up in an air force family, so I went skydiving at 1,300 feet on my 18th birthday. Was fun! My own daughter is considering doing the same, but I'm encouraging her to get her driver's license now, so she also has the option of flying a plane on her 18th. Jumping is worth doing at least once, but flying feels way more powerful! I think the added "taking control" element of flying the plane is more appropriate for an 18th, than just jumping out of one. Ask any bird which one is better!

[@nursejim2129]

I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Toys-R-Us kid.

[@jamescaldwell2357]

Toys-R-Us has gone out of business, soooo, um, your childhood is bankrupt! My apologies.

[@brick6347]

​​@@jamescaldwell2357only in the USA. You can still find them in other parts of the world. There's one in the mall in -Rzeszów- (edit, oh the coof got that one. But they're still about in other cities), Poland if you're feeling nostalgic.

[@jamescaldwell2357]

@@brick6347 So . . . the Poles have my childhood?

[@johnlewis1830]

Here here

[@johnlewis1830]

​@jamescaldwell2357 maybe in your universe.

[@John-Is-My-Name]

You should have included denmarks tradition where if you are unmarried at 25, you get tied to a chair and your family and friends throw cinnamon on you. I think it should classify as a coming of age ceremoniy? or maybe not

[@egrytznr8893]

That's just humiliation of a lonely person LMAO. Forget helping introduce them to a potential partner just embarrass them so much they never go to gatherings with friends and family again, Denmark... smh.

[@teaspoonsofpeanutbutter6425]

​@@egrytznr8893 hardly. Being young free and single hardly equates to lonely. Unless you're exceptionally sad with zero ambition or self respect.

[@kariusbaktus165]

@@egrytznr8893 they have been introducing them to people for 25 years before throwing cinnamon..

[@egrytznr8893]

@@teaspoonsofpeanutbutter6425 not trying to insult but the latter half of your comment just sounds like a psychological projection. Some people are happy being single even for their entire lives, some people aren't, some even have a hard time finding a partner, none of those things reflect on their character.

[@teaspoonsofpeanutbutter6425]

@@egrytznr8893 I'M projecting?! You said it's a humiliation ritual coz someone isn't married by 25. It's only humiliating to those who feel that's their worth. Sounds more like a projection on your part. Some of us couldn't give a rats behind if we're single at age X coz I doesn't matter and we have nore unpirtant things to worry about.

[@Animanarchy]

I appreciate the sponsorship ad being saved for the end of the video because I barely ever watch ads, just keep skipping ahead or drag the playback bar past them, so saving them for the end saves me the trouble.

[@greatoak7661]

@joescott - The original version of that "diving off a 10 story building" wasn't the shoulder. I remember watching the original discovery in the 80's on a documentary on it. Back then, the villagers would dig up the dirt so it's soft and the goal was to be the one that hits the soft dirt with their head not shoulder. It probably got changed by outsiders.

[@ksmith87]

I remember that one too now that you say it. You have a great memory

[@greatoak7661]

@@ksmith87 - Yeah, the closer they got so their forehead would make a mark in the soft dirt win.

[@twincast2005]

Now that you mention it, yeah. Probably to appease the Anglos who freaked out and misdirected the blame after they had caused somebody to die by pressuring them to perform a jump despite the ground being too hard for it.

[@greatoak7661]

@@twincast2005 - I don't think it was Sir David Attenborough, but someone of his caliber narrating and such.

[@edhamacek2469]

Just another clarification, the nation of Vanuatu is a group of islands. As far as I recall, this ceremony was only performed on the island of Tana.

[@tessiepinkman]

GREAT episode, Joe! This is the type of anthropological shit I am down to learn. Well, to be 100% honest, I'm down to learn about almost anything, but I am especially interested in anything and everything that has to do with our fellow humans and their customs and general way of life. The jokes were fantastic, I especially loved Rachel's "Painting the town red" - that made me ugly-laugh. I've been following your channel since I was a *very* immature and *VERY* broken 23 year old, back in 2013, with a baaad addiction to heroin, amphetamine, Xanax, and anything else I could take, which I had been fighting with since I was 14. Now I'm 34 and has been clean since the beginning of 2021, so I feel like I have grown up and become a "real" adult with your channel and you - so you have been a big part of my "Coming of age ritual". *Thank you for keeping me curious!* You're the best! PEACE!

[@zimtastic1171]

I'm proud of you!! ❤❤❤ Keep it up!

[@miroslavhoudek7085]

@4:30 Way to read the japanese work Senjishiki as if it was a polish soldier that nobody likes but will turn out to be a great guy who sacrifices himself for the platoon. Rip, Sezhinski, you were a great guy after all.

[@DataRew]

When Joe said, "Pain Enthusiasts?" I heard Pinhead say, "Such exquisite Paaaaaiinnn..." in my head.

[@ofsinope]

Not defending rockers creeping on 17 year olds in general, but Paul McCartney was only 19 when he wrote that song.

[@lifesbutastumble]

And AOC in this country is 16, so not as creepy either

[@OiIMan]

​@@lifesbutastumble just because it's legal doesn't mean it's not gross

[@tessiepinkman]

@@OiIMan What's gross about a 19 year old being together with a 17 year old? That's a 2 year age difference. That's not creepy at fucking all.

[@OiIMan]

@@tessiepinkman I was clearly not talking about the 19-17 relationship, I was saying that age of consent being 16 is gross

[@tessiepinkman]

@@OiIMan Why? The person still needs to *consent* to having sex with someone, and generally speaking, it's about being able to be in a relationship with someone who may be 2-3 years older without the older one getting in trouble. The roots of the law (where it came from) aren't perfect, I agree, but today it doesn't interfere in any Police business if that's what you're worried about. This isn't a law that makes it alright for a 40 year old to groom and date a 16 year old. In the country I was born and raised the age of consent is 15. CONSENT is the word you should pay attention to. Just because someone's the age of consent, doesn't make it alright for older people to abuse that - and the cops are very fucking clear on that.

[@HCivicFg2]

We had 2 of the Lost Children of Sudan at my highschool. 1 of them almost got into a fight with faculty when he arrived with a lion pelt and they told him he couldn't have it in his room. It was a military boarding school.

[@notahumanbeing6892]

if someone owns a lion pelt, i don’t think it’s anyones place to say they can’t keep it lmao

[@thomashiggins9320]

@notahumanbeing6892 Especially if it's the pelt of a lion *he killed, himself* . With a *spear* . 😯

[@anniestumpy9918]

lions are an endangered species, he should have been shamed for that (just because it's "tradition" doesn't mean you can do what you want)

[@nightwishlover8913]

I first saw the Vanuatu film way before my teens - some 60 years ago - welcome to Joe Scott's current affairs...

[@ILoveLamp_1995]

When the government starts taxing you, you've become an adult

[@mrvn000]

sii!!

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

This might be the best definition yet.

[@jimdennis2451]

I was 11.

[@wolfzmusic9706]

In my country you need to earn a certain amount of money to be taxed, so can't really apply to mine imo

[@CameronRoser-Peet]

Damn I’ve been an adult since I was 12😭

[@walterfristoe4643]

I always thought that the "Chin" dynasty referred to Jay Leno's era of the Tonight Show... 🤣

[@anniestumpy9918]

The Amish _Rumspringa_ means "running around (joyfully)" (the "jumping" translation comes from standard German which is not where Pennsylvania Dutch comes from).

[@kruksog]

Am I misunderstanding you? You are saying the Pennsylvania dutch are not of German heritage? I've always understood the "dutch" here was a representation of "Deutsch," i.e. German. Sorry, I'm just not sure what you are saying here. Everything I look up says the Pennsylvania dutch are of German ancestry.

[@brianlittleforest631]

@kruksog The Amish are an offshoot of bapists. IIRC they broke off the Mennonites in the 17th century. They were led by a Swiss German by the name of Jakob Amman. The families that followed him were mostly from southern Germany and Switzerland so they speak Allemannic dialects, either Swiss german or Schwaben, not high/standard German.

[@centibastelt2023]

@@brianlittleforest631 That's correct. In southern German dialects "springa/springe" does mean running around. Not jumping.

[@unlucky5442]

In Norway we have something called Russ or Russetid which we do in the last year of high school. It lasts from 1st may to our constitution day 17th may. We usually put on red overalls that we decorate and party and drink all throughout may. We also usually do challenges like sleeping a night in a roundabout, drinking 4 beers in a minute or running around a lake naked, stuff like that (we have a long list of challenges you can choose from). Some friend groups also spend months and tens of thousands of $ on an old bus they decorate and turn into a party bus they can drive around partying in.

[@j.r.warren5794]

When I came of age, I had three options, join the military, get a job or go to college. Two of the three would have meant four more years of parties. I choose poorly.

[@rationallyruby]

I’m honestly not sure which you picked? Lol

[@j.r.warren5794]

@@rationallyruby Obviously, the one that didn't allow me to party for four more years. Hope that helps. lol.

[@rationallyruby]

@@j.r.warren5794 well I guess thank you for your service? Lol

[@j.r.warren5794]

@@rationallyruby I built m-vans for General Moters. Some were for services/deliveries, but all I did was put a few pieces together. Then the military and college gave you a chance to party because, other than the cold war, we weren't involved in any wars back then.

[@rationallyruby]

@@j.r.warren5794 see that’s why I needed you to tell me cause I’m dumb! 😂

[@TimOnBooks]

Very cool concept for a video...and, as always, great execution of it!

[@niravdarmesh5278]

1:42 Thank you for the squozen treat!!!

[@dlerious77]

My buddy and I have a podcast and we talked in an episode months ago about the rites of passage in different cultures and the vine bungie jumping as well as the wasp stinging was some of the things we spoke of. Fascinating how certain practices in what we think of a modern world are still used in so many places around the world. Well done on this vid Joe! Much more in-depth detail than we did...hehe. Love the channel you were and are an inspiration to so many people, keep the knowledge flowing.

[@zatar123]

I'm a bit disappointed that you covered the Spartans, but didn't touch on the coming of age fertility rituals of various ancient pagan groups

[@danjoseph9581]

Video topic idea: Strangest animal courting / mating rituals ?

[@grmpEqweer]

Look up the mating habits of the Leapord slug.

[@atolmasoff]

Love ya Joe, your videos are always the best on KZbin

[@VegaHawk769]

I was thinking about this stuff recently my thought was that we need to find a way to do it based off of maturity rather than based on time

[@0utJ4nd3r]

Man, 'Walkabout' was a missed opportunity to make a Babylon 5 reference. Keep going, I'm sure you'll get to make that joke eventually.

[@joyl7842]

13:50 are you sure they didn't just trick those BCC employees into thinking that was a ritual?

[@mejoe943]

We love this channel! Thank you!

[@daviddupoise6443]

IKR! Sometimes I think we have a touch of collective insanity. You know like James I of England and burning witches at the stake whereby NOT an insignificant number of people on multiple continents thought, "Hey yeah that's a good idea!?!" Talk about WTF!

[@erzsebetkovacs2527]

Witch hunts are basically society's stick-on plaster or placebo to large societal turmoil and deep-seated unease. Nowadays, we only get self-appointed orators blaming Gen Z for their avocado toast, back then, even the learned intelligentsia agreed on magic being real.

[@l00t3R]

Seen a vid when jumping from the tower the vine failed. Guy got up from a head first dive more annoyed that it broke and not that he just smacked his bonce off the floor 😮

[@lifesbutastumble]

I first saw that ritual being presented by Karl Pilkington. You should watch the entire series he did, but that ritual was featured in just one of the episodes.

[@markreaume]

The Bullet Ant test is basically the Gom Jabbar Test.

[@hapyharyhard0n581]

Great video topic! keep it up, Joe! ...You da man!

[@phoule76]

I always oil my legs before tying vines to my ankles and jumping off great heights.

[@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep]

I am Catholic but did First Communion late and just never got around to doing Confirmation. I have cancer now and I am thinking of doing the adult Confirmation mostly just to comfort my mon.

[@ryboi1337]

​@@winstonian88*tips fedora*

[@rationallyruby]

Do whatever you want! I’m an atheist but was raised catholic. If you don’t believe in it but want to do it for your mom that’s okay. But if you also don’t want to do it, you don’t have to!

[@MrOuchiez]

19:27 - *venomous -Pedant Mode Disabled-

[@Allidewissink]

This is one of the only channels that I watch the entire video Everytime. Great job as usual.

[@timog2202]

Much love Joe, ty for the content friend.

[@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep]

Now that's not fair, Paul was 19 when he wrote that line!

[@TheDramacist]

"First period is a time to paint the town red." Women: trololol Men: Uuurgghh Ty Rachel 😂

[@sharonwhite6126]

Loving this upload. Learn something new everyday 😮

[@floretionguru2977]

I'm only half way through but am already asking "good god why?!" at the filing down of front teeth.

[@jjh1978-2]

Hi, Joe! I love your channel. However, I need to make a slight correction in the bar/bat mitzvah category. Girls do EXACTLY what the boys do, minus the tefillin. I know because I had a bat mitzvah when I was 13 (back in the Stone Age). Otherwise, it’s another great video. Keep it up! My kids and I are big fans!

[@WhatShouldMyArtistNameBe]

Kazakh's definitely needs a category all its own..BADASS

[@JohnnyIrish553]

What d'yeh mean they go hard on the Quinceañera?!? Is there possibly a Burro involved?!?! LMAO!!!!

[@TraderDan58]

I have no problem judging people. It’s served me well.

[@cab927]

I got a car on my 16th birthday... I guess that isn't as cool as I thought.

[@raymeelinster7762]

Lol yeah same, seems lame now

[@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep]

No, that is very VERY cool. I wish I did!

[@cab927]

@@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep it meant a lot to me as a young american because it was my late grandfather's truck he got a little after I was born but in terms of coming of age rituals from around the world it's pretty small .

[@wolfzmusic9706]

At least in my country that's amazing as you're probably very privileged. Only rich people in my country get their own cars.

[@cab927]

@@wolfzmusic9706 not rich

[@mikelbentube]

the bit that got me the most was filing teeth

[@profoundpronoun4712]

Love ya Joe ❤

[@Corn-Pop.]

we lost Tom Scott but we still have Joe Scott

[@duanefentiman]

we should have a joining patron ritual for the channel !!

[@matthewjason14]

bro how'd you do that face ? 😂

[@hugoedelarosa]

They should go with the ant gloves.

[@AfricanLionBat]

Do the last ritual in the nebula video. That was disgusting and was definitely created by some kind of masochist predator.

[@user-bp4wt2zq4p]

You spelled "idiot" wrong

[@briandoe5746]

Flirting hard with age restriction is probably a poor choice of words to use

[@harrietwells480]

I was lucky enough to experience the land diving ceremony in Vanuatu first hand! Was one of the most interesting and memorable experiences!

[@irinaphoenix2169]

Wandering into the Outback is way scarier than the land diving to me.

[@theGreenDuckie]

Are you allowed to post the direct link to the Nebula vid in the description? It's not a big deal but it makes it a bit easier for people to jump on it straight from KZbin

[@joescott]

Thanks for pointing that out, just added it.

[@garryellis3085]

Z0

[@sallycapotosto6927]

I'm surprised you didn't mention A Man Called Horse.

[@JulieCaptivatedinFl]

I literally wrote that in the comments, then scrolled down and read this. Also Return of a Man Called Horse. Great minds, Sally!

[@almahperditae]

The thing I love the most about these rituals, is not the different things that exist around the world. Is that when you really look at them, they are just the same thing. Culture is very diverse, sometimes even in the same place, different comunities have different rituals. But underneath the culture, we are all humans, and we are just the same. The rituals have all the same basis. And I love that. It's just something more deep than culture

[@callofthevoid525]

My relative at the moment just concluded a sunrise dance this past weekend. Was a nice surprise to hear sunrise dance being mentioned.

[@TheBrokenJester]

Is there something different about the cuts between segments? I feel like there used to be a title card or transition of sorts? Never just a black screen and silence.

[@dannydandaniel8040]

The cars had a 17 song too

[@ksmith87]

Kings of Leon

[@dannydandaniel8040]

It was "let's go"

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

Also Janice Ian.

[@EinsteinsHair]

ABBA: Dancing Queen was only 17

[@holocene2164]

In my opinion, all of those, all of it, are freaking ridiculous.

[@R0bobb1e]

Because of my heritage, my Dad used to often say "Just be thankful we don't do the O'Kee'Pa anymore!". I never knew what he meant, but now I do!

[@Keovar]

21:25 - I remember seeing that depicted in the film _A Man Called Horse_ when I was a kid. I don't remember the movie as a whole, but that scene is hard to forget. I get sympathy pains just thinking about it. 22:30 - That one is depicted in the film _Roots_, when Kunta Kinte is still with his people, before being abducted by slavers.

[@DogFish-NZ]

I'm Peter pan. screw this growing up stuff

[@paytonpryor]

These rituals are ridiculous. Intentionally causing pain to someone else is sickening. No matter the reason. Not all culture deserves respect.

[@Mistermeeceeks]

It’s the fact they had a go pro strapped to him when he jumped 😂

[@Osiris3657]

There's a well known KZbinr who did the bullet ant ritual for clicks and his pain tolerance is unbelievable. Never screamed out or showed any physical signs of pain. Just said with a smile "ok this hurts"

[@jackbuff_I]

That's probably Coyote Peterson. He's a legit nutter. The Gympie-Gympie episode is unreal.

[@dannydetonator]

Are you sure that he didn't pre-arramge to cheat? If seeking attention and engagement, these people usually are not honest. There are many ways to cheat, otherwise he should have trained for that. Yes, it's possible to disconnect from the pain with techniques or not show it up to a level, but if bullet-ant sting is as painful as advertised, he must have insider knowledge and training of pain management. Or a disposition, because nobody healthy is born with insanely high pain tolerance. Do you have his name plz?

[@mauno91]

@@dannydetonator ^^ Weak

[@Osiris3657]

@@jackbuff_I nope, not him

[@1964mcqueen]

I was in Akureyri, Iceland, where i saw a group of teens jumping from the pier into the ice cold water. One of them told me this was a tradition to mark the end of the school year. I didn't ask if this was tradition throughout Iceland, or if it was tied to a tradition dating back to a time before schools.

[@ebonyware1815]

Hey Joe! As a quick FYI 12:31 we no longer use the term ‘Aborigine’ as it is quite outdated, it is akin to an American using the term ‘coloured’ to describe African American people.

[@nolakillabeast]

For half of these brutal ones, its about going through the toughest stuff ao that nothing else phases you. It makes you mentally stronger because you have always seen far worse.

[@wwatse]

Ghana 🇬🇭 made the list 🥳🥳🥳

[@Alex_zer0_Shoveller]

i enjoyed my time in Ghana when i was there, awesome place/people. Coffins were cool too haha makes western ones look quite lame and depressing 😅

[@mazharsarwary5619]

I swear I saw someone that looked just like you driving a jeep wrangler this morning, On my way to Lifetime Fitness. It was so spooky bro.

[@antdenzic7977]

This is by far the best video you've done in a while. That opening monologue was really written well - got my noodle thinking. Appreciate your good work

[@fiffihoneyblossom5891]

My first ever birthday party was at 31. My birthday falls in the school holiday, so I never got to have the happy birthday song and friends over as a kid. So my best friend dressed me in a tutu and a crown,got me a jumping castle and I had an absolute ball. Imagine a bunch of dunk 30-somethings on a jumping castle with sparklers and goodie bags with candy. Made missing the big hoo-ha of coming of age parties worth it

[@baracudabill6076]

"Squozen" lol... put that in your Funk & Wagnalls

[@OdariArt]

On my way to Nebula.

[@garypalmer997]

What's wrong with you? Who hurt you?! 😂😂

[@Mytippies]

I think I'll just stay a boy💁🏼‍♀️😚💕

[@JulieCaptivatedinFl]

A movie called " A Man Called Horse" with Richard Harris depicts the O-Kee-Pa ceremony of hanging for pain endurance. It's a brilliant film and that part looks very real. Cool to learn it was a true ritual not a made up Hollywood action stunt.

[@celiaphillips2107]

I’ve been to Pentecost island in Vanuatu and watched this live. Visceral 😮

[@Shnagovic]

The bullet ant gloves, is just insane. I am pretty certain that 90 percent of the young generation today, probably including myself, would not make it through that ritual.

[@ashkebora7262]

Nahh, that's actually a big part of it. Realizing that you _can_ survive pain like that.