SSaemoenl, just read your silly post further - you're criticising African women for carrying their infants on their backs, because you feel it's "primitive". You the civilised (and I say this tongue-in-cheek) one can't even construct sentences in English. "African ladies in abroad". Like "abroad" is a country, huh? It's "African ladies abroad".

Get your own life straightened out, before finding fault with "African" women. 

SSaemoenl:

Culture is what we create for ourself in the sense that the little way we can perceptive within the local environment we reside, but one might think living across the local environment and see changes in that same perception we believe in, We should try as much as possible to change and adapt to the new culture.

Many African young ladies in abroad always like to carry their babies on their back and even carry items on their head whenever they are working the streets of western countries, which i founds so primitive when compared to the white race.

Please have your say on the way out of this ugly practiced culture we tend to bring in abroad, as some will use dirty wrappers on that and make the act so primitives as the whites called it MONKEY way of life.

Your suggestion and called to improve our culture to 21st century world.

Seun needs to ban this slowpoke from here
What nonsense

Siena:

SSaemoenl, just read your silly post further - you're criticising African women for carrying their infants on their backs, because you feel it's "primitive". You the civilised (and I say this tongue-in-cheek) one can't even construct sentences in English. "African ladies in abroad". Like "abroad" is a country, huh? It's "African ladies abroad".

Get your own life straightened out, before finding fault with "African" women. 

Thank you
I live in abroad too

0hsisi:

Thank you
I live in abroad too 

Lol, my sista, how body nah? 

Na which abroad you dey for? Make I check whether na d same one me dey sef. 

Siena:

Lol, my sista, how body nah? 

Na which abroad you dey for? Make I check whether na d same one me dey sef. 

LOL
I dey Amirika
That is my abroad
I know say you dey drink tea with Eliza

^^^ LMAO!

Where is Saemoeni? In which abroad are you?

I dont get this backward mentality being displayed here.

I've seen non-african ppl do the same shoit.

If Non-African women do it, it's exotic and very fashionable. But when We do it, it becomes an issue.

What a hot mess.

FL Gators:

I dont get this backward mentality being displayed here.

I've seen non-african ppl do the same shoit.

If Non-African women do it, it's exotic and very fashionable. But when We do it, it becomes an issue.

What a hot mess.

Who are those Non africans that uses dirty things to carry a baby in the public, ? Mentalty change Pls.

SSaemoenl:

Who are those Non africans that uses dirty things to carry a baby in the public, ? Mentalty change Pls.

You're obviously suffering from something. Dont tell me, sounds like a personal problem.

FL Gators:

You're obviously suffering from something. Dont tell me, sounds like a personal problem.

Then i rest my case as we are different people with different opinions, Go ahead and tell ur wife when going on an official thing, She should as well carry the baby at the back, Thread close!

0hsisi:

Seun needs to ban this slowpoke from here
What nonsense

You of course

ezeagu:

Yeah well, this is an opinion not medical fact. If the baby is well fastened and secured there's nothing to worry about millions of Nigerian women run up and down from the stream, bustle through busy markets with uneven streets and cross lawless roads with their baby's tied firmly to their backs. Millions of Nigerian babies aren't dyeing form Backing. There's a difference between plain embarrassment/a want to fit in than there is too proven medical science. I can assure you if this was a Celtic tradition no one will make an issue about "safety".

What has my point got to do with a medical fact?? You say that if the baby is well fastened there's nothing to worry about. Of course. In the safety of the home or in a contained area, I would agree with you. But whether home or in abroad , I suggest that women be more worried about "backing" their kids. Okay, in Nigeria the pram thing is not so common (imagine pushing your baby trolley into a danfo bus ) But many Nigerian women in foreign countries have taken the safe route of pushing your baby round in a stroller/buggy, not because they feel they must be "among" or be westernised. It's just the thing to do. Millions of kids in abroad that were never backed in their lives grow up healthy, so what do you mean by medical fact, sef . Our mothers backed us, yes, but is it every culture we must cling to, especially when we are in abroad ??


Anyway I don tire for this topic/debate. You are free to continue the discourse if you wish.

maedan:

But whether home or in abroad ,  Millions of kids in abroad  especially when we are in abroad ??

Don't make me laugh!  You're claiming to be Westernized, and modern, yet you still can't get your written (and dare I say spoken) English right!

Where is "in abroad"? It's "abroad", you're just a Bush Woman making a lame attempt to appear trendy, and failing woefully.

Bush Woman, go sort your own deficiencies out first, before coming on here to castigate Nigerian women who choose to carry their infants on their backs! The last person to be criticizing African women should be a stark illiterate, that wouldn't recognise her rancid butthole from a hole in the ground. 

@ Siena
Don`t mind her.
She just has a real prooobleeem!!!!
How can someone think this way? I also take my baby to official functions on my back when in African attire and guess what?
I find my pic in the newspapers posing with some govt. official or the other. They love having those pictures.

mutter:

@ Siena
Don`t mind her.
She just has a real prooobleeem!!!!
How can someone think this way? I also take my baby to official functions on my back when in African attire and guess what?
I find my pic in the newspapers posing with some govt. official or the other. They love having those pictures.

Ride on, sister!

maedan:

What has my point got to do with a medical fact?? You say that if the baby is well fastened there's nothing to worry about. Of course. In the safety of the home or in a contained area, I would agree with you. But whether home or in abroad , I suggest that women be more worried about "backing" their kids. Okay, in Nigeria the pram thing is not so common (imagine pushing your baby trolley into a danfo bus ) But many Nigerian women in foreign countries have taken the safe route of pushing your baby round in a stroller/buggy, not because they feel they must be "among" or be westernised. It's just the thing to do. Millions of kids in abroad that were never backed in their lives grow up healthy, so what do you mean by medical fact, sef . Our mothers backed us, yes, but is it every culture we must cling to, especially when we are in abroad ??

Kids aren't dying from it, why should it be thrown away if it is comfortable to the mother? Is it against the law? No, it is not, and we can see fathers carrying their babies on their shoulders in every Western country. Let's just be honest, if it was a tradition that the British brought to Africa we would be typing about how it is the "thing to do". You don't have to have a buggy, it's your child, you can carry them however you want as long as it is safe. Nigerian women are carrying their children on their backs in front of Western police and they are saying nothing, who is anyone else to say anything when the establishment, including doctors, are saying nothing. . . . in the abroad?

When are we going to learn to appreciate our culture

ezeagu:

Kids aren't dying from it, why should it be thrown away if it is comfortable to the mother? Is it against the law? No, it is not, and we can see fathers carrying their babies on their shoulders in every Western country. Let's just be honest, if it was a tradition that the British brought to Africa we would be typing about how it is the "thing to do". You don't have to have a buggy, it's your child, you can carry them however you want as long as it is safe. Nigerian women are carrying their children on their backs in front of Western police and they are saying nothing, who is anyone else to say anything when the establishment, including doctors, are saying nothing. . . . in the abroad?

I never said it should be thrown away ooo, nor is it against the law. Have you seen the music video of Kelis, Acapella?? She backed her child all through the video . It is a tradition that is healthy and great for the baby and mother, I just don't get the idea of doing it on the street like a Nigerian market woman . Even back home most enlightened ladies don't back their babies on top their suit or jeans - it's common among the less privileged. But you can bet that around the house, even Adenuga's (Globacom) wife is backing their latest baby on her back when the need arises!! But in abroad, no one is stopping you from backing your baby, it's just not quite the thing, y'know. But it's a matter of choice, and we all know there is plenty freedom of choice IN THE ABROAD Lol, @ ezeagu u sef u funny .

maedan:


I never said it should be thrown away ooo, nor is it against the law. Have you seen the music video of Kelis, Acapella?? She backed her child all through the video . It is a tradition that is healthy and great for the baby and mother, I just don't get the idea of doing it on the street like a Nigerian market woman . Even back home most enlightened ladies don't back their babies on top their suit or jeans - it's common among the less privileged. But you can bet that around the house, even Adenuga's (Globacom) wife is backing their latest baby on her back when the need arises!! But in abroad, no one is stopping you from backing your baby, it's just not quite the thing, y'know. But it's a matter of choice, and we all know there is plenty freedom of choice IN THE ABROAD Lol, @ ezeagu u sef u funny .

As you said, it's all a matter of freedom of choice. I never heard about it being not quite the thing to do though, because I clearly see baby carriers on sale and from the earlier pictures Westerners are now doing the same.

ezeagu:

As you said, it's all a matter of freedom of choice. I never heard about it being not quite the thing to do though, because I clearly see baby carriers on sale and from the earlier pictures Westerners are now doing the same.

Doing what, ? maybe in your area. I still stand on my word, that we have to eradicate that ugly system, by using clean material in the hse not in the public.

And 2morrow you will inform us that carrying loads on your head is as well our culture, where as we dont want to embrace a new life. Change is what we are in!

SSaemoenl:

Doing what, ? maybe in your area. I still stand on my word, that we have to eradicate that ugly system, by using clean material in the hse not in the public.

And 2morrow you will inform us that carrying loads on your head is as well our culture, where as we dont want to embrace a new life. Change is what we are in!

That's your opinion. No mother is going stop doing anything for you, so go on with your whitewash.

SSaemoenl:

Doing what, ? maybe in your area. I still stand on my word, that we have to eradicate that ugly system, by using clean material in the hse not in the public.

And 2morrow you will inform us that carrying loads on your head is as well our culture, where as [b]we dont want to embrace a new life[/b]. Change is what we are in!

You are a nut case indeed.
So you have the guts to still talk after pics of oyibo women "backing their children" were shown to you.
If your mother "backed" you with dirty rags does that mean every one's mom did same?
The new life you should embrace must include registering in some school and taking serious English lessons
For someone who is oyibo inclined,you suck at simple grammar.

0hsisi:

You are a nut case indeed.
So you have the guts to still talk after pics of oyibo women "backing their children" were shown to you.
If your mother "backed" you with dirty rags does that mean every one's mom did same?
The new life you should embrace must include registering in some school and taking serious English lessons
For someone who is oyibo inclined,you suck at simple grammar.

Culture is what we create for ourself in the sense that the little way we can perceptive within the local environment we reside, but one might think living across the local environment and see changes in that same perception we believe in, We should try as much as possible to change and adapt to the new culture.

Many African young ladies in abroad   always like to carry their babies on their back and even carry items on their head whenever they are working  the streets of western countries, which i founds  so primitive when compared to the white race.

Please have your say on the way out of this ugly practiced culture we tend to bring in abroad  , as some will use dirty wrappers on that   and make the act so primitives  as the whites called it MONKEY way of life. 

Your suggestion and called to improve our culture to 21st century world  .

             

Has anyone considered opening a thread in the education section dedicated to teaching the english language??
One of my oyinbo friend like this nairaland ad i'm tired of explaining that some of these grammatical blunders are people typing in vanaclar.

SSaemoenl:

Doing what, ? maybe in your area. I still stand on my word, that we have to eradicate that ugly system, by using clean material in the hse not in the public.

And 2morrow you will inform us that carrying loads on your head is as well our culture, where as we dont want to embrace a new life. Change is what we are in!

do tell us whats next to "eradicate" in-order to embrace the next chapter of "new life" in your "white mans manual of advanced living"

Ignorance and low self esteem are not bliss. Asians also carry stuff on their heads. It may be medically not ok but primitive? I do not see how. Rich Africans do not carry stuff on their heads. It is a matter of poverty as I have seen some poor-looking americans also do it. Baby backing is universal as we can see from the photos. You can purchase a baby clothe sling at any shop

Siena:

Don't make me laugh!  You're claiming to be Westernized, and modern, yet you still can't get your written (and dare I say spoken) English right!

Where is "in abroad"? It's "abroad", you're just a Bush Woman making a lame attempt to appear trendy, and failing woefully.

Bush Woman, go sort your own deficiencies out first, before coming on here to castigate Nigerian women who choose to carry their infants on their backs! The last person to be criticizing African women should be a stark illiterate, that wouldn't recognise her rancid butthole from a hole in the ground. 

OMG, DEATH !!!!

Siena:

Don't make me laugh!  You're claiming to be Westernized, and modern, yet you still can't get your written (and dare I say spoken) English right!

Where is "in abroad"? It's "abroad", you're just a Bush Woman making a lame attempt to appear trendy, and failing woefully.

Bush Woman, go sort your own deficiencies out first, before coming on here to castigate Nigerian women who choose to carry their infants on their backs! The last person to be criticizing African women should be a stark illiterate, that wouldn't recognise her rancid butthole from a hole in the ground. 

OMG, DEATH !!!!

The trolls are out in full force again,the proper albiet safer way to do it is in the front,prevents back strain.African women "back" their kids because they have so much going on in the front like washing,cooking,selling.I have never seen an American woman(black or white) carry in the back,if at all they use the front baby carrier, funny though that everyone showed pics of "white" women,when there are many different ethnic groups that live in western countries, .My people have a long way to go to lift the burden of " white envy" from their shoulders.