Yorubas And The 'Left-Hand' Issue

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we cannot continue to blame the whiterman for all our problems. The fact is yes a lot of injustice was done during colonization and slavery but we have past that now.

The question is why can't we pick ourselves up and fend for ourselves. if the colonial system doesnt work for us why are we still using it. The earlier we start developing ourselves the better for us else we will still remain as backward as we are for a long time to come

It can be annoying most times especially when you consider a scenario whereby you are busy with your right hand but still expected to transfer whatever you are doing to your left to greet or hand over something with your right. it really sucks but i guess its part of out "culture"

culture, culture.

One of the main reasons is that the left hand is reserved for Bathroom/toilet issues.

If you use your right hand for "bathroom issues" it will catch fire and burn off. 

The Fire Shall Try

roflmao  .

All this ancient "the left hand is used to clean your ass" business. For Nairalanders that I meet, I prefer hugs and smooches from the females. I'm lefty and I use my "weaker" right hand to clean my ass, so shake my hand at your peril.   

I love my culture and I aint changing it. Some things I will do away with, some things I will never change.

When I first got here and got my first job. I remember always switching to my right hand to give a customer something and then I did not stop there sef, I will bend my knee, like the proper, good Yoruba girl. 

Now, I don't do that anymore. But guess what, I can never, ever give my parents or my relatives or people I know personally, some thing with my left hand. I still bend my knees when I serve people, especially male, food or hand them something. That part of my culture I love and I am keeping. 

If and when I have kids, the female will do likewise.

Keep changing everything about your culture and soon enough, there will be nothing left to hold on to.

N.B: I like men that are men, not wimps like we have out there now. 

i am a leftie o
its not only yorubas everywhere you go poeple keep asking "why didnt your parents stop you when you started with left"
if am eating with a spoon i use my left if am eating with my hand i use my right but any other thing with my right i can't

So real men, beat their wives? I did not know that. I thought it was the cowards that don't know what it means to love a wife, that beat their wives.

Female circumcision, guess you forgot to read the part this part:

Wow, pathetic? I think that is a strong word to use. Though, I usually stick with simple words, that way I ain't confusing myself. Pray tell, what makes me pathetic? Because I let a man be a man, now means I "deserve" disrespect from him? Hmmm.

texazzpete Not all Nigerian women are  circumcised or want to to so with their Kids.
I Will not raise my kids the way Bhol will want to raise her kids.
But At the end of the day Respect takes nothing off anyone.
Even the royals in England bend their knees.
Everyone has the right to live the old traditional way .
But even in a high class Yoruba family you still have to do some knee bending. .
Anyone that dose not want to do that should not marry into the family.

i really don't care about the left hand stuff, i just find it groose people shaking me wid their left hand when i know they use it to clean their watever, or use it to give me stuffs, i'm not aginst using it to write,

well i don't think you guys would want to meet me
i was born with my left thumb stuck in my mouth
and i have been usin it since i cud remember
they've tried to make me stop but they didnt succeed.
i do almost all things with my left and hardly use my right

What kind of old tradition?abeg,its high time some cultures in Nigeria r squashed.I particularly hate d fact that any old person thinks they can tell u off(quite rudely i mite add) or even hit u in d presence of everyone jus because  u unintentionally gave sumthin with ur left hand.

eya pele. i kind of feel like crying for you 

proud to be a leftie,