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| Re: Y Most African Doesn't Like It When People Say They Look Like African! by ikamefa(f): 11:19pm On Nov 14, 2006 |
of course am proud to look like an african cant have it no other way, love ma nappy hair, ma thick thighs, ma caramel colored skin,most of all ma onion booty  yeah cant have it no other way  |
| Re: Y Most African Doesn't Like It When People Say They Look Like African! by candylips(m): 11:24pm On Nov 14, 2006 |
Ikamefa , But seriously did you ever wished you had white skin. Has the thought ever occurred in your mind. I am just curious |
| Re: Y Most African Doesn't Like It When People Say They Look Like African! by ikamefa(f): 11:36pm On Nov 14, 2006 |
white skin? nahhhhhhhhhhhhh never their straight! straight! hair maybe (on bad hair days) |
| Re: Y Most African Doesn't Like It When People Say They Look Like African! by jammin(m): 11:50pm On Nov 14, 2006 |
i agree black is better. much better. but a Geisha i would love to know.  |
| Re: Y Most African Doesn't Like It When People Say They Look Like African! by ikamefa(f): 11:55pm On Nov 14, 2006 |
jammin: then you should be on your way to japan  i hear geishas are abundant in yoroido and kyoto districts |
| Re: Y Most African Doesn't Like It When People Say They Look Like African! by naijacutee(f): 12:02am On Nov 15, 2006 |
candylips:But I apologised for calling you a bleeped up person. And if you didn't 'hear' it, then whilst still trying to make my point, I apologise again - Sorry for calling you 'bleeped up'. |
| Re: Y Most African Doesn't Like It When People Say They Look Like African! by candylips(m): 12:10am On Nov 15, 2006 |
@naijacutee Its ok @ikamefa What makes a geisha beautiful |
| Re: Y Most African Doesn't Like It When People Say They Look Like African! by ikamefa(f): 12:32am On Nov 15, 2006 |
@ candy A geisha is a traditional Japanese entertainer of men. She is a master of traditional arts including music, serving tea (which is a fine Japanese art), dancing and singing etc. don't confuse this with prostitution aight? you may call them super hostesses,geisha go through intense training learning only the traditional Japanese arts. Geisha are very respectable women in japan's society and would never routinely indulge in relationships with different men. if you appreciate all things Japanese the above would prolly mean something to yah! if not hey!  to me what they go through, to become full geishas, their craft et all is beautiful |
| Re: Y Most African Doesn't Like It When People Say They Look Like African! by naijacutee(f): 1:21am On Nov 15, 2006 |
I agree with you! It's not just about their outward beauty but also about their meticulous training - almost to perfection. Have you read 'Memoirs of a Geisha?'
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| Re: Y Most African Doesn't Like It When People Say They Look Like African! by Amobi1(m): 3:52am On Nov 15, 2006 |
must of this people on this thread claiming that people told them they look this and that are just showing one of the example am talking about. stupidity. you guys are just doing it to show up. thats how it get started. they told me i look this but, men what guys. tell you the truth i haven't been desappointed with africans till i came here, i wana be iwana bee, |
| Re: Y Most African Doesn't Like It When People Say They Look Like African! by candylips(m): 5:18pm On Nov 15, 2006 |
dude you are not making any sense |
| Re: Y Most African Doesn't Like It When People Say They Look Like African! by frankiriri(m): 1:04am On Nov 16, 2006 |
@hotstepper are you African  U dont even look human Abi when did a pair of shoes look human to u |
| Re: Y Most African Doesn't Like It When People Say They Look Like African! by Amobi1(m): 3:11am On Nov 16, 2006 |
candylip you don't make sense |
| Re: Y Most African Doesn't Like It When People Say They Look Like African! by ikamefa(f): 5:31am On Nov 16, 2006 |
@ naijacutee i have read the book and seen the movie, i think fell in love with the geishas from reading the book |
| Re: Y Most African Doesn't Like It When People Say They Look Like African! by naijacutee(f): 10:12pm On Nov 16, 2006 |
@ ikekefa , awesome book innit?!? It shows feminity to near perfection without degrading it. And any idea what the original poster iis going on about? He asked a question, people answered and he said we are 'showing up'. What the heck? |
| Re: Y Most African Doesn't Like It When People Say They Look Like African! by ThiefOfHearts(f): 10:36pm On Nov 16, 2006 |
Memoirs of a Geisha is a good book and movie however you cant help but say that instead of them being low class prostitutes, they are pretty much high class escorts with a lot of training Talk the scene in the movie where the star geisha had to go up her virginity to that nasty doctor man because he made her naja a higher sum of money than the other guy, Nudo, isnt that a kind of prostitution? albeit on a higher class scale |
| Re: Y Most African Doesn't Like It When People Say They Look Like African! by Uche2nna(m): 10:53pm On Nov 16, 2006 |
@ iice You must b e a pot pourri of a woman @ jammin was up |
| Re: Y Most African Doesn't Like It When People Say They Look Like African! by neelsel(f): 8:12pm On Nov 17, 2006 |
Honestly I don't even know how I look. Poor me. The truth is my grandmother was from Ireland and my grandfather a Carib decesdant. So all of my siblings look completely different. There is one who looks caucasian, there are some who are darker. My complexion varies with the climatic conditions here. I cannot even send pictures to verify how I look because seeing me in person and in photos does no justice to truly indentifying me. I have been stopped many times on the street, college and elsewhere and asked if I were African, to which I would answer somewhat. If they ask for a clearer understanding then I tell them I was taught that My fore-parents were from Africa so therefore I must be African. Honestly I really don't care what people call me, afterall Africans are damn pretty. |
| Re: Y Most African Doesn't Like It When People Say They Look Like African! by jammin(m): 12:10am On Nov 18, 2006 |
@uche2nna deh bout mi brethren( i am here my friend--- queens english) uche y are you always where the girls at? dont be like me----- i am genetically incline to be where the girls are at. you see they have 1 of my rib, and thats the only way i can feel whole, is when am with them. |
| Re: Y Most African Doesn't Like It When People Say They Look Like African! by Uche2nna(m): 12:32am On Nov 18, 2006 |
Prolly me too. I came to NL to enjoy myself and the ladies in NL just help me do that. Anyways you can see my post all over the place from the Religion section to the sports section.Just that sometimes some guys will start getting all personal and worked up for no reason and i have to bail out. Right now I am even having this discussion about the existence of God with a guy named KAG and it will be more intersting if u join too.I wanna hear ur view point cos I know you are an atheist or an agnostic wateva those words mean |
| Re: Y Most African Doesn't Like It When People Say They Look Like African! by ZuluNation(m): 12:40am On Nov 18, 2006 |
Uche2nna: Did I hear you say you come in here to enjoy the ladies? wait first till Lauryn gets here  By the way, you still not paid up on your dowry money and here you are enjoying ladies Tufia. *hisses in chinese* |
| Re: Y Most African Doesn't Like It When People Say They Look Like African! by ikamefa(f): 12:45am On Nov 18, 2006 |
i talk am i don tell uuche sey yawa must gas |
| Re: Y Most African Doesn't Like It When People Say They Look Like African! by jammin(m): 12:49am On Nov 18, 2006 |
@uche hahahahaha hahahahah be over there in a sec parachute into religion |
| Re: Y Most African Doesn't Like It When People Say They Look Like African! by Uche2nna(m): 1:22am On Nov 18, 2006 |
ZuluNation you need to wash your mind. Enjoy means chatting happily ( at least in my own dictionary) Y r u bent on breaking up me and L |
| Re: Y Most African Doesn't Like It When People Say They Look Like African! by ZuluNation(m): 2:06am On Nov 18, 2006 |
Uche2nna: Dude I don't have any reason to want to break you and Lauryn up trust me. Why in the world would I want to do that. I'm happy with my own honey, Lauryn and most people here know it. I'm not interested in your Lauryn pls you can have her for all I care. |
| Re: Y Most African Doesn't Like It When People Say They Look Like African! by Uche2nna(m): 2:42am On Nov 18, 2006 |
Nice to hear that |
| Re: Y Most African Doesn't Like It When People Say They Look Like African! by mrmetoo(m): 6:23am On Nov 18, 2006 |
I think ppl don't like being called Africans because of the way the media portrays us with all the flies and dirt and half naked "bush people". So when someone says u look African you might just think they're referring to that kind of image. There was one day I was with my friend and I said summ like "that guy looks naija" and she was like "aww thats not fair". I could not understand it at all because I didn't know when saying someone looking naija became an insult. |
| Re: Y Most African Doesn't Like It When People Say They Look Like African! by dremoney(m): 12:02pm On Apr 24, 2007 |
naija_4_life |
| Re: Y Most African Doesn't Like It When People Say They Look Like African! by omo07(f): 3:53am On Apr 25, 2007 |
it really depends on the context in which the question is asked, if someone is trying to be an @$$, i won't be nice in my reply but I seem to get comments on lookin african all the time, one day i was in library studying and this guy came up to me and was like are u african? I swear that was one of the most random, things and i was like ehh, yea well nigerian actually, but that was really an odd way to be approached, lol I look african, [nigerian, =D] and im proud, b/c thats what I am its my background, it identifies me, and I am pretty, pretty [lol if i do say so myself, ] so no problems there! =D |
| Re: Y Most African Doesn't Like It When People Say They Look Like African! by adconline(m): 6:32am On Apr 25, 2007 |
I don’t think that people don’t like to be called Africans. But have you really sought for the underlying meaning of African from that person who identifies you as an African. Do you feel flattered when someone praises for speaking good English? Not for me because it means that the person had a lower expectation of me. The reason why I say this is because when they tell you that you don’t look African, they simply mean that your appearance does not conform to the images they see on TV period. Why do people assume that Africa as a continent looks alike. Its because they have a narrow and myopic definition of Africa. Someone even said to me that “African women are tacky" |
| Re: Y Most African Doesn't Like It When People Say They Look Like African! by na2day2(m): 4:20am On Jan 15, 2008 |
Well, i proudly call myself african everytime. but yes, u get ppl that think i am african american, but it is painful when another nigerian says i dont look nigerian, i always feel like sending them a round of slaps |
| Re: Y Most African Doesn't Like It When People Say They Look Like African! by spoilt(f): 5:10am On Jan 15, 2008 |
I am african and proud to be so. People stop me and tell me "you must be african". I am really dark and slim. I represent my sisters well. One of my white client once told me he can sniff out an african girl from a line up of African American women. "They just look better" He insisted especially without makeup. I totally agree.  because you dont want to see destiny's child without their weaves! |
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