12-11-2006, 12:14 AM
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Enid Blyton's 3 Gollywogs
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To attempt to answer your questions, human nature is associated largely with generalisations, and when a set of events keep occuring around a set of population, then generalisations take root.
This is similar to events in Nigeria where the political class have been associated with monetary corruption, the Hausa/Fulani with religious intolerance and sectarian killings, the Tiv with excessive love for sex, the Igbo with fake drug (medicine) distribution, the Yoruba with hard drug couriering, the Edo/Delta with prostitution in foreign lands and now lately the Akwa Ibom/Cross River with medicaid fraud. As for 419, that appears now to be the past time of youths from all sections of the country.
Nevertheless, there is no gainsaying that the actual truth is that majority of the members of these classes (except perhaps the political class) are innocent of the sweeping generalisations they are tainted with. But as with most things humanly, the generalisation trend appears to be the simplest way to describe the vice in question. That said, the big question now is how come Nigerians, amongs other blacks, are always fingered in negative tendencies? These range from drug trafficking, 419, prostitution, child trafficking, medicaid fraud, identity theft, illegal immigration and...... I can go on and on. Given my generalisation hypothesis above, you can see how and why Nigerians are always mentioned, and in many cases not just being mentioned, but being actually seen and proven to be involved in these negativities. So how then do you want to be treated when at every turn of event a Nigerian is always involved? We should desist from soliciting the sympathy of other Africans, because if anything, they also loat the shame that some Nigerians have brought on the black race. It is true that the entire black race is disadvantaged and discriminated against, but Nigerians have been exceptionally discriminated against because of certains things that have consistently been associated with us. This is the simple truth and what I think is fundamentally wrong. As things stand now, individual Nigerians will have to prove their trustworthiness. I am afraid that for us, there is no such thing as blanket innocence for some time to come. Many Nigerians are simply too greedy and parents from all parts of the country are largely to blame for the gaping decadence and unbridled materialism. Nigeria does not need just economic emancipation, we need also moral emancipation and cleansing, and the later in large doses
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Demographically speaking !!
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