The Sworn Virgins of Albania: The end of an ancient tradition - BBC World Service Docs, 100 Women
Vložit
- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- Only a dozen "sworn virgins" are left in the world, as an ancient Balkan tradition where women live as men dies out.
Click here to subscribe to our channel 👉🏽 bbc.in/3VyyriM
BBC 100 Women has been invited into the private world of the remaining burrneshat. Will the loss of this community mean progress for Albania's younger generations of women?
Produced, reported and directed by Tui McLean
Cinematography, story development and edit: Derrick Evans
Executive producer: Valeria Perasso
BBC 100 Women editor: Claire Williams
The BBC 100 Women team has a mission to address the under-representation of women in media. If you are interested in their content check out these playlists:
👉🏽 • Interviews with women ... "In conversation" with inspiring women
👉🏽 • Documentaries with wom... Docs with a gender viewpoint
👉🏽 • BBC 100 Women More videos with a gender perspective
----------------
This is the official BBC World Service CZcams channel.
If you like what we do, you can also find us here:
Instagram 👉🏽 / bbcworldservice
Twitter 👉🏽 / bbcworldservice
Facebook 👉🏽 / bbcworldservice
BBC World Service website 👉🏽 www.bbc.co.uk/...
Thanks for watching and subscribing!
#BBCWorldService #BBCDocumentaries #100Women
👋🏽Hi! We hope you enjoyed this documentary. Is there any moment, quote or thought that will stay with you? If so, please share it in the comments, we would love to read it! BBC 100 Women is a team with a mission to address the under-representation of women in media. We are constantly looking for powerful and moving stories about women and girls around the world. If you want to help us in this exciting project please share your ideas in the comments. Thank you for watching! And if you enjoyed it, don’t forget to subscribe to the channel here 👉🏽 bbc.in/3VyyriM
Marvellous documentary! Thank you BBC!
holy shit building a cigarette with no hands is some next level stuff
I though that was pretty amazing too,
BBC should raised money for him.
@@Gold_Bear100 Him? Did you even watch the video?
Stupid ass cripple pulling the fuse out of a grenade bet he got bullied at school and rightly so
@@AlphaGeekgirli've been told that burrnesha usually use he/him pronouns, so they are not wrong
Next week I will travel to Albania 🇦🇱 for my 12th time and will stay a minimum of 3 months, is just a great small country with so much to see, 3 months I believe will be enough to travel and get the real feeling about the country.
Most of times I been in albania 🇦🇱 is been a lot of free things the locals offer,
Transfer free
Food free
Drinks nearly free everyday
Some offer free accommodation for 1 day or a week.
The Albanian people are truly amazing people ❤️ ♥️ 💕 💖 👏.
Thanks and wish you have the best time in my country!
Thank you for promoting the value of my prehistoric nation!! Albania is not only political borders today is much boger..starts from Athine..Skopie..Montenegro..Kosova..Sanxhak..Bosnia
Enjoy your time we are so happy to have tourists in Albania 🇦🇱
@Jetmira Ismalaj thank you,
Great name you have when translated,
Live good
Good life is just great name to have.
Be happy forever Jetmira " GoodLife"
Looks like all u go for there is for free stuff taking advantage of people’s kindness!
Beautiful documentary, thank you BBC.
Very interesting and nice situation with niece and aunt
Respect without any doubt.
ALBANIA was a tough Country to be grown up as a man. . Hats 🎩 off to these Burrnesha.
Beautiful documentary, thank you!
19:25 LMAO "kids and their damn phones these days" ass tangent
Very interesting. Thank you.
Excellent documentary.
I'm very impressed.
Respect 🌟
I was hoping to also learn about their female "roommates" and female "friends"
A sworn virgin lives with her family or alone. There are no roomates, and not even female friends. Sworn virgins truly think like men, so they also are quite mysoginistic. It has nothing to do with sexuality.
They lived like nuns, absolutely pure at heart and body!!!
@SMT unbelieveable is happening in Ethiopia: aparthied. Amharas, the largest ethnic grp, are killed on a daily basis. They are hunted like Nazy time Jews and kept in concentration camps without food.
My thoughts and prayers are with them.
Respect to all the Burrnesha in this documentary. They've led lives of dignity in service to their families that were in need of their sacrifice. Men died in wars and feuds and these proud women held their roles with strength and pride.
As for this "emancipated" pink haired wannabe snowflake: it's unfortunate that you are shunning traditional values for a misguided liberal ideology. Despite the fact that this tradition is becoming extinct, it served it's purpose and you should be proud of the fact that Albanians had such a system in place where no other society did.
In my opinion, this tradition, having been practiced for hundreds if not thousands of years, was progressive and waaaay ahead of it's time. You cannot judge it on the standards of today and anyone who does so is ignorant any overlooking the vital roles these Burrneshas played in their families and in the societies.
This BBC documentary misrepresents Burrnesha as it does not tell the full story of their roles and embellishes on negative points to drive their modern feminist and woke agenda.
Tell the full story or don't bother at all.
you're the only one who gets it unfortunately. Yes, this tradition is way ahead of it's time.
I couldn't have said it better myself👍👏
Not just misrepresentation of the role and life of burneshave, but even translation is done wrong and intentional.
@@arlixhemalaj I guess we should have expected this from a foreign government funded media. The agenda for centuries has been to trash our nation and our peoples to favor the myth of their synthetic "greek" state and the assimilation of our people there and in other bordering territories. God forbid the truth of our history and culture were to surface and the veil of manipulation and myth were pulled back. Britain, Germany, Austria and France would have a lot of explaining to do. Not to mention, there would be innumerable debt of land and monies to suddenly account for. No worries though, the truth always comes to light despite the con in the long run. As long as we exist there is hope in that. Efforts are well underway to see that we are made whole in due time, however delayed it may be.
The fact of the matter is that we can no longer allow others to write the narrative for us. Dardania (Kosova) will be key in this. And by the recent liberalization of visas due to go in effect in 2024, the deliberate and unjust isolation of our people will help in this cause.
Rroft Shqiptaria! 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱
17:46 It’s obvious that you did not even watch the video, because despite you saying the complete opposite, she actually did explain her reasons why, and said she was proud of her aunt.
Clearly, you just came hear to stand on your soap box and put women you don’t even know, down.
So many claims you have made are all false. Feminism is feminism. There is no modern feminism. Only equal rights for all.
Is About time BBC say the truth about the greatest people of Europe, the Albanian people, the oldest people of Europe, the people who have a long history of truth, trust, traditions, welcoming people who are really good people.
No people is the greatest people in Europe. You're using words that directly feed into nationalist delusion.
And it's ridiculous to say that finally BBC tells the truth about Albania. I'm quite sure what they said was factually true most of the times they said something about Albania, as much as with any other country.
What a stupid thing to say. If we were "the greatest people of Europe", we wouldn't be the least developped european country, the only country that never was an independent state. We were under roman rule, under byzantium rule, under turkish rule, under venecian rule, under italian rule, under german rule.... We were a state for only a quarter of a century under Skenderbej, we were a very troubled state between the 2 world wars, we were the harshest communist dictatorship in Europe for 45 years, and for the last 30 years we are ruled by corrupt mafiosi. So tell me, what the hell have we done to be called "the greatest people of Europe"? Every other Balkan state has been more advanced and modern than we were in the last 500 years. We have contributed nothing to science or arts. The more ignorant a person is, the more he things he is "the greatest". Dhi e zgjebosur me bishtin perpjete jeni
Women were ppressed in Albania? "The most common religion in Albania is Islam..."
Obviously Islam doesn’t oppress women and anyone who say it does is oppressing Islam 😂
@@cobidbeksin5200 lol. Oh weill, Islam will oppress me back with a butcher's knife, I expect. Such a disgrace that it is.
@@cobidbeksin5200 It does not respect women.
Islam is definitely against the idea of being a "sworn virgin" so don't confuse cultural practices with religious ones.
@@krisradjpaul278 I'm sure India is the least oppressive country to women.
Soo - lesbians
Don't say that,don't banalise this custom! It has got nothing to do with it... It is an offence everything you are saying....Not everybody has a sexual mentality......
No, it has nothing to do with nowadays perverted mentality, do not sexualise these absolutely pure and great Women... they lived pure at body and heart!!! That is a respectful tradition, nothing to do with nowadays "crazy-trends"...
That's very rude and disrespectful