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Most importantly, the practice of Bullet Ant Gloves has a negative impact on the community because it leads to social pressure. For example if a man does not complete the ritual he is not eligible for leadership roles (“Ritualistic Envenomation”). With excluding the man from any roles in the community gives a pressure on the participant to complete the ritual. Additionally with incompletion of the ritual the man is not allowed to marry (“Ritualistic Envenomation”). Therefore the participant not be thought of as a man of the community. He has not proven himself as a warrior and is not allowed to be one. With all these pressures from the tribe and their families most boys will go through this painful initiation rite.
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