Sunday, May 20, 2007

Chinese foot binding










Foot binding was practiced in China for 1000 years. Young girls would have their feet wrapped, thus limiting the normal development and essentially crippling them. Today, it is a prominent cause of disability among elderly Chinese women. Read more about it here.



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  1. I tagged you for a meme. I am not sure what that is, but I got tagged and I had to find five interesting blogs.

    You are tagged. You are supposed to tag (post links to) five other blogs that you like.

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