Osun State Indigenes Vs Igbos

maybe he is afraid that the lady will discover that the full  name of oshogbo is oshoIGBO.

i heard something similar while at univeristy. A parent told her son not to introduce an igbo girl to her.

make i reserve my comments

its simply personal preference - the parents have decided they would prefer not to have igbo inlaws. There are numerous reasons governing that opinion depending on the individual you ask.

For some its purely cultural - they do not feel like the Igbo culture is very compatible with theirs. For others it may be a bad experience in the family/something they have heard of, people get scarred when they have bad experiences and may decide to 'blacklist' a tribe/section of the country.

For some others it is a matter of sheer bigotry/tribalism - no genuine reason for the opposition. This group is the one most detestable to me.

Tell your friend (thats if you aren't the one actually involved ) to find out more about his dad's reasons, and try to overcome them by showing that his girlfriend and her family are different.

There are numerous marriages between Yorubas and Igbos, so I can safely say it is not a universal problem - find out the specific reasons for the opposition and deal with them accordingly.

We are not mind readers here who can tell you why his dad made such an assertion. Wish you the best in your relationship.

there have been a rise in igbo/yoruba marriages in the past decade. however it's been mostly yoruba men vs igbo women. igbo men are still too tied up to igbo women. but gradually the men will start marrying from outside their tribe. they have started though with the calabar women and some rivers women, but they are yet to seriously cross the niger westwards on a marital mission.

may be i can do something about that.

who's there

haha my uncle is married to a yoruba woman. You are right though its been mainly the igbo women who have been doing the crossing, igbo men rarely do.
Were are the igbo women anyway?  Time to impress my mom.

it seems to be a thing about Igbo men and Yoruba women, from the little I know.

that is to say, a lot of Igbo men have no problem marrying any other tribe or nationality besides Yoruba women. They seem to draw the line when it comes to Yoruba women. But Igbo women don't appear quite as discriminatory, because there are more Igbo women married to Yoruba men, than the other way round. I know a few Igbo men/Yoruba women marriages, but they tend to be relatively rare.

Very interesting state of affairs.  Must be a cultural thing, I guess.  Nothing spoil sha.

_{abeg make I go find other threads. or why have I been stuck on identical topics for the past few days.}

tpia, one of the main reaosns is that our tradition laws allow the women to have more freedom in various things than others

Apparently some people can't handle that 

     
         Would you please leave me out of your topics?
              quoting me around  is unfair.