Mauritania Stereotypes

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To say the beauty ideal of Mauritania is “full figured” is a vast understatement, they take the Western love for an ultra slim figure and flip it upside down. The path toward Mauritania's definition of beauty is lined with what most of the world would consider child abuse. The women of Mauritania participate in the tradition of leblouh- intensive force-feeding. Parents send their young girls to remote “fat farms” in the desert where they are force fed up to 16,000 calories a day. These farms are run by “professional force-feeders” who beat and torture girls who don't comply with the strict eating schedules set out for them. One of these such professionals seemed confused as to how this could even be seen as child abuse saying, “"No, no, it's

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