The westernized Nigerians



Western education has proven invaluable to the overall devopment of Nigeria. It has empowered us as a people and placed us on a pedestal from which we can view the world and contribute our quota to the betterment of mankind.



More than just imbide the western education, we've gone ahead to adopt western life style as well. Now speaking our native language is frowned at, as children are forced to speak Queen's English as a way to show civility. Intelligence is now measured by your beautiful accent and good grammatical construction as if before the arrival of whites, we weren't intelligent.



Worse still, our mode dressing have been so weaternised, you'll wonder if the up and coming generation still remembers their culture and root. Things that were frowned at and seen as abominable, have become the norm now, all under the guise of trends and "times we live in".



By simply observing, you'll notice 70% of our youth now wear ear rings and dread lucks, multiple neck chains like hip hop artist and many more. What's even more disturbing is young mother plaiting their sons hair and piercing their eyes as infants. For Christ's sake, how did get to this point? Why are trying so hard to become more western than the westerners? Why is our native names and way of life suddenly seen as archaic and crude?



We have to nip this wave of western rascality pervading our youth in the bud, else generations to come would know nothing about our identity as a people and what we truely stand for. Let be Africans with our chest and stop measuring intelligence using western gauges.

Imbibing the western culture is becoming a norm in Africa, especially Nigeria. It has become part of our culture...we have taken it so well that we don't even notice ourselves doing it anymore. It is like we have been brainwashed and convinced that 'western' is better than 'local' or 'traditional'. Now one of my friends sent me https://thenovelprojectchronicles.com/papers/ article where I can find the best papers to read before starting writing my own paper.

damoneymag:
The westernized Nigerians



Western education has proven invaluable to the overall devopment of Nigeria. It has empowered us as a people and placed us on a pedestal from which we can view the world and contribute our quota to the betterment of mankind.



More than just imbide the western education, we've gone ahead to adopt western life style as well. Now speaking our native language is frowned at, as children are forced to speak Queen's English as a way to show civility. Intelligence is now measured by your beautiful accent and good grammatical construction as if before the arrival of whites, we weren't intelligent.



Worse still, our mode dressing have been so weaternised, you'll wonder if the up and coming generation still remembers their culture and root. Things that were frowned at and seen as abominable, have become the norm now, all under the guise of trends and "times we live in".



By simply observing, you'll notice 70% of our youth now wear ear rings and dread lucks, multiple neck chains like hip hop artist and many more. What's even more disturbing is young mother plaiting their sons hair and piercing their eyes as infants. For Christ's sake, how did get to this point? Why are trying so hard to become more western than the westerners? Why is our native names and way of life suddenly seen as archaic and crude?



We have to nip this wave of western rascality pervading our youth in the bud, else generations to come would know nothing about our identity as a people and what we truely stand for. Let be Africans with our chest and stop measuring intelligence using western gauges.

So after praising western education in the first paragraph, highlighting all the merits that comes with it.., you went ahead to condemn western lifestyle in the second paragraph, just because it's in competition with your culture...

My brother you can't eat your cake and have it, in the first place , the first question you should be asking yourself is why an average Nigerian chooses the western lifestyle over his own traditional lifestyle...

The reasons are not farfetched, just zoom out and see the bigger picture.