yarimo:
6) All IPOBIANS ARE TERRORIST -- that is not a misleading statement

Armaggedon:


IGBOS AND YORUBAS HAVE THE MOST INTERTRIBAL MARRIAGE IN NIGERIA
This one of the most repeated false statements about Igbos recently. Igbos are conservative when it comes to intermarriage. Despite this there has been numerous cases of men from cousin tribes contiguous to Igboland such as Ijaw,Efik/ Ibibio, Isoko etc marrying Igbo women in the past and presently. However, aside Ibibio /Efik where Igbo men occasionally marry from, it is very difficult to see an Igbo man married to woman from another tribe. Conversely, Yoruba men embrace inter tribal marriage for reasons best known to them. In fact most Yoruba men I know would wish to marry outside their tribe. Since millions of Igbos and yorubas meet daily in lagos it not strange to occasionally see marriage between a Yoruba man and an Igbo lady . However this in no way makes marriage between Igbo and Yoruba the biggest in Nigeria. Marriages between the Hausas and Fulanis unarguably constitute the biggest in Nigeria followed arguably by that of Yorubsa and Edos. There is also high rate of intermarriage between Yoruba and Hausa as well as itshekiri and urhobo. Unlike these other cases, Most Yoruba/ Igbo marriages involve Igbo women and Yoruba men and they occur mostly among people in the upper class of Lagos, which makes it not balanced enough to be called inter tribal marriage by my definition. Excessive media exhibitionism often accorded to Igbo/Yoruba marriages creates this false impression.

scholes0:


lol lol lol

Yes, Yorubas are more open to intertribal relationships because Yorubaland has historically always been a melting pot of sorts, various people have come and gone through what is now Yorubaland and this part of the world has always been open and well connected to all surrounding areas. But at the end of the day the Yoruba people always remain the only outlasting legacy.

While I am not really for or against intertribal marriages especially being the person from a dominant culture such as mine having nothing to fear, I would caution you to re-think your assertions that Yoruba-Igbo intermarriage is limited to just the Upper class in Lagos alone.
Have you visited the Lagos state marriage/wedding registry to study the stats or what? Secondly, why does it end in just Lagos? You think Lagos is the only place in the SW where Igbos can be found?

Those intertribal marriages making the headlines are only getting such publicity because the people involved are society people, but there are literally hundreds that take place going unnoticed each day.

Truth is the most common intertribal marriages are those between adjacent tribes, but those are mostly rural in nature, but in the cities (urban landscapes) in places such as Lagos or Abuja, one can't really make such bold assertions. Yoruba-Igbo marriages might actually outnumber all other urban inter-ethnic relations in Nigeria.
My 2 Kobo.

Armaggedon:
how did you smuggle "alone" into my assertion? BTW you neither refuted any of my points successfully.

scholes0:


You said they mostly occur in the upper class, which is actually a false narrative, because the reverse is actually the case here. It is more common among the screps of society, for nothing else but the mere fact that in Nigeria they constitute the main mass of society.. How many younger people in street level relationships and with kids even do proper weddings anymore these days?
You even said Yoruba men were the only ones marrying Igbo women and from the other direction no Igo men were marry Yoruba women. Another of your opinions, and while I agree that more Yoruba men marry Igbo women than Igbo men marrying Yoruba women, it is more like a 65-35 situation, and not a lack of both in substantial numbers.

I can't refute your points because you had no point to begin with, just opinions based on what you think, which you would realize to be evidentially wrong if facts in form of raw data were to be presented. In Lagos, I have seen more children with mixed Yoruba-Igbo names than Yoruba-Others by a whole lot of wide margin.

Armaggedon:
you either do yourself the favour of reading things carefully or you quit this thread for threads within your intellectual capacity instead of making disjointed arguement. no point to refute? then what have you been struggling to do.
you have seen more mixed children of Igbo and yoruba then in your warped logic it means that is the fact? i made a valid statement that yoruba /Igbo intermarriage is nothing near the highest as claimed through media propaganda, you started by saying it happens everywhere but ended up saying it happen mostly in the city like i said. inter tribal marriage is when men From tribe A marry Women from tribe B and men from B take women from A. so far, Igbos give and dont 'take'. Igbo women get attracted to men from all the ethnic groups and marry in some cases but yoruba seems to be loudest about it.when people heavily intermarry, it is difficult to see a family without having a trace of another group. this is the case with hausa / fulani and itshekiri / urhobo. there is absolutely nothing like that in an average yoruba family viz Igbo that will warrant such a sweeping statement talk more of Igbo family that hardly take in other women. in fact unlike others that have to do with cultural contiguity, Igbo/ yoruba marriages are circumstantial. once lagos cease to be a meeting hubs it will end.

Truth is the most common intertribal marriages are those between adjacent tribes, but those are mostly rural in nature, but in the cities (urban landscapes) in places such as Lagos or Abuja, one can't really make such bold assertions. Yoruba-Igbo marriages might actually outnumber all other urban inter-ethnic relations in Nigeria.

scholes0:


lol lol lol

Yes, Yorubas are more open to intertribal relationships because Yorubaland has historically always been a melting pot of sorts, various people have come and gone through what is now Yorubaland and this part of the world has always been open and well connected to all surrounding areas. But at the end of the day the Yoruba people always remain the only outlasting legacy.

While I am not really for or against intertribal marriages especially being the person from a dominant culture such as mine having nothing to fear, I would caution you to re-think your assertions that Yoruba-Igbo intermarriage is limited to just the Upper class in Lagos alone.
Have you visited the Lagos state marriage/wedding registry to study the stats or what? Secondly, why does it end in just Lagos? You think Lagos is the only place in the SW where Igbos can be found?

Those intertribal marriages making the headlines are only getting such publicity because the people involved are society people, but there are literally hundreds that take place going unnoticed each day.

Truth is the most common intertribal marriages are those between adjacent tribes, but those are mostly rural in nature, but in the cities (urban landscapes) in places such as Lagos or Abuja, one can't really make such bold assertions. [s]Yoruba-Igbo marriages might actually outnumber all other urban inter-ethnic relations in Nigeria.
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My 2 Kobo.

scholes0:


[s]You said they mostly occur in the upper class, which is actually a false narrative, because the reverse is actually the case here. It is more common among the screps of society, for nothing else but the mere fact that in Nigeria they constitute the main mass of society.. How many younger people in street level relationships and with kids even do proper weddings anymore these days?
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You even said Yoruba men were the only ones marrying Igbo women and from the other direction no Igo men were marry Yoruba women. Another of your opinions, and while I agree that more Yoruba men marry Igbo women than Igbo men marrying Yoruba women, it is more like a 65-35 situation, and not a lack of both in substantial numbers.

[s]I can't refute your points because you had no point to begin with, just opinions based on what you think, which you would realize to be evidentially wrong if facts in form of raw data were to be presented[/s]. In Lagos, I have seen more children with mixed Yoruba-Igbo names than Yoruba-Others by a whole lot of wide margin.