ezeagu:

http://books.google.com/books?id=GUc8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA114 I found a 'reliable' source on the statistics of Igbo skin color, Apparently the Ngwa are lightest with 19% having a fair hue and only 56% dark, the abadja are darkest with only 2.2% light and 85% dark, the rest mid toned.

So according to this book, its around 3/10 Igbo people who are light. hmm, my 1/20 was way off then.

platinumnk:

Im brownskinned and Igbo but 80% of my cuzns are fair and my fiance is fair also (Igbo)
My cuz who is very fair , handome and tall with real hazel eyes, told me alot of yourba gals were chasing him in Lagos to get them pregnant.
He married a Igbo girl, she wasnt as fair as him, but their baby was very very fair~

tpia:

chei!!!!

Yoruba girls don suffer!!!

_{as if the pikin go automatically get im papa features}

though black guys with green/hazel eyes and reddish skin are always in demand regardless where they're from- even if its Cotonou or the Rio Grande.

I know at least one boy like that (Yoruba) who was turned to a woman wrapper on account of these features. Come and see girls pampering this guy. Giving him money and everything.

tpia:

well, I dont know what this racist platidumb is talking about- I know hazel eyed dudes who are Yoruba. Likewise they're also found in other tribes though maybe the incidence is higher in the east since Fulani arent being included in this discussion. Calabar also has a fair share.

Dont know if it was the girls chasing her cousin or her cousin chasing the girls. He sounds like one of those girly men.

Really

tpia:

chei!!!!

Yoruba girls don suffer!!!

_{as if the pikin go automatically get im papa features}

though black guys with green/hazel eyes and reddish skin are always in demand regardless where they're from- even if its Cotonou or the Rio Grande.

I know at least one boy like that (Yoruba) who was turned to a woman wrapper on account of these features. Come and see girls pampering this guy. Giving him money and everything.

tpia:

well, I dont know what this racist platidumb is talking about- I know hazel eyed dudes who are Yoruba. Likewise they're also found in other tribes though maybe the incidence is higher in the east since Fulani arent being included in this discussion. Calabar also has a fair share.

Dont know if it was the girls chasing her cousin or her cousin chasing the girls. He sounds like one of those girly men.

tpia:

like I said, its either girls were chasing your cousin or your cousin was chasing girls. So cut the matyr stance- na today girl dey chase men, or is that purely a Yoruba girl thing- you never heard of girls targetting boys before? And you say you live in America. In your hometown, girls dont chase this your girlish cousin? Even in the US girls chase black guys with such features since you may not know other blacks of non-Igbo extraction also have them.

I never said you saw one either- if you had you obviously wouldnt be making such statements as Yoruba Lagos girls were chasing your cousin for his fair skin and hazel eyes. If your cousin was in Lagos, did he verify the identity of the people chasing him or because they were speaking Yoruba he simply assumed they were Yoruba.

The first part of my initial response was tongue in cheek, since you missed that. I gave you the benefit of the doubt at first, but your other posts on NL are revealing your racism, so no need to beat around the bush.


Of course if I'd known Nigerians were this backward and dont know anything outside their backyard I'd have taken photos and started a photo journal when I was there.

If you want to start the b*tch talk be my guest. But dont complain when your lineage comes under the spotlight.

And since you dont know, let me repeat it for you: YOU ARE RACIST.

From Wikipedia: Although the term racism usually denotes race-based prejudice, violence, discrimination, or oppression, the term can also have varying and hotly contested definitions. Racialism is a related term, sometimes intended to avoid these negative meanings. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, racism is a belief or ideology that all members of each racial group possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially to distinguish it as being either superior or inferior to another racial group or racial groups. The Merriam-Webster's Dictionary defines racism as a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular racial group, and that it is also the prejudice based on such a belief. The Macquarie Dictionary defines racism as: "the belief that human races have distinctive characteristics which determine their respective cultures, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule or dominate others."

tpia:



tell me how your OP is different from this one here:



the Yoruba say na for inside joke truth dey. No saint and no sinner pointing fingers here. Lagos girls didnt tie a rope around your cousin and lasso him into the bed.

^deno:

lightskin nigerians.
Esan/ishan

Kalabari

Ibibio

Efik

Etsakor

Owan

ijaw.

Ifygurl:

Stick to one account abeg. ??who are you madam
?
Are you sure you even know naija people. Out of all the list of tribe you provided, Ibibio are the only ones with lightskin people. Though i like some ijaw(Kalabari) people but lightskin, you dey crazy? And where is Fulani? Edo(Esan,owan,Etsakor)
hell i know you hate igbo people but abeg, stick to the truth.

Fiona0007:

If Igbo men likes light-skinned girls, do they actually prefer to date white women or Asian girls?
just curious!

Ifygurl:

Stick to one account abeg.

Are you sure you even know naija people. Out of all the list of tribe you provided, Ibibio are the only ones with lightskin people. Though i like some ijaw people but lightskin, you dey crazy? And where is Fulani? Edo? hell i know you hate igbo people but abeg, stick to the truth.

PhysicsQED:

I  think Ijaws tend to be lightskinned, but if you don't know anything about other groups outside of those you've interacted with don't make stuff up. You don't seem to "know naija people" either because many Ishan are in fact light skinned. The poster never said "Edo," he/she said Esan, Etsako, and Owan, not Edo.

tpia on April 05,2009, 11:34 PM:

Quote from: platinumnk on April 05, 2009, 10:06 PM
My cuz who is very fair , handome and tall with real hazel eyes, told me alot of yourba gals were chasing him in Lagos to get them pregnant.


chei!!!!

Yoruba girls don suffer!!!

as if the pikin go automatically get im papa features Undecided

though black guys with green/hazel eyes and reddish skin are always in demand regardless where they're from- even if its Cotonou or the Rio Grande.

I know at least one boy like that (Yoruba) who was turned to a woman wrapper on account of these features. Come and see girls pampering this guy. Giving him money and everything.