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iNvAlId tHrEaD
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Leilah (f)
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its tribalism.
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Vicjustice (m)
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its tribalism.
Com'on, you can understand better than this. Well, most Nigerians mistake Racism for Tribalism, though. We only mind the primary definition of racism as something relating to white and black and we undermind some secondary definitions. Racism doesn't just consist of issues of colours, it deeply consist of matters among people of same colours but different back-ground of origin. For example, the German race, the Greek race, the Roman race, Jewish race etc. Tribalism consists of issues among people of same race, but different tribes. You can not say that the difference between the Ibos and the Housas is tribe, that would be wrong. Let me enlighten you. Talking about Igbo for instance, it is a race of it's own, and in this race, there are tribes: therefore, if an Igbo person have prejudice with fellow Igbos for reason of his origin back-ground, such issue could be referred to as tribalism. But if an Igbo man is prejudiced against a Hausa man for reason of his origin, this is RACISM. Remember the twelve tribes of Israel? They were all born of one father, and yet, their offsprings were/are classified into tribes. Take some examples: An English man would accuse Germany of racism toward them, are they not all whites? Adolph Hitler was a racist towar Polish people, are they not whites? So, my dear, the problem in Nigeria is racism, not tribalism, tribalism is an issue among people of the same race. What about the Oduduwa race? |
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michelin89 (f)
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The Igbos, Hausas, are not races but tribes. There are only two races in this world and those are the human race and animal race. Somehow we now use race to identify people from different part of the world: the white race, the black race, the asian race and so on.
Any sort of discrimination inside the same country is tribalism. There is nothing like race in a nation.
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Vicjustice (m)
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Be a good friend of your dictionary. If the defference between Igbo and Hausa is "tribe", what then is the difference between an Ijebu man and an Abeokuta man? Checkout this definitions for RACE from Merriam Webster online dictionary at: http://www.m-w.com/dictionaryMain Entry: 3race Function: noun Etymology: Middle French, generation, from Old Italian razza 1 : a breeding stock of animals 2 a : a family, tribe, people, or nation belonging to the same stock b : a class or kind of people unified by shared interests, habits, or characteristics <the English race>3 a : an actually or potentially interbreeding group within a species; also : a taxonomic category (as a subspecies) representing such a group b : BREED c : a category of humankind that shares certain distinctive physical traits 4 obsolete : inherited temperament or disposition 5 : distinctive flavor, taste, or strength |
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Busi baby (f)
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You are right Vicjustice, there's racism everywhere including Nigeria
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Vicjustice (m)
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More definitions for RACE at http://www.thefreedictionary.com/race1. A local geographic or global human population distinguished as a more or less distinct group by genetically transmitted physical characteristics. 2. A group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution: the German race. 3. A genealogical line; a lineage. 4. Humans considered as a group. 5. Biology a. An interbreeding, usually geographically isolated population of organisms differing from other populations of the same species in the frequency of hereditary traits. A race that has been given formal taxonomic recognition is known as a subspecies. b. A breed or strain, as of domestic animals. 6. A distinguishing or characteristic quality, such as the flavor of a wine. |
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Baba_Dibia
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you peopel go to big big school for nothing and you call tribalism rasism
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Vicjustice (m)
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Baba dibia, i salute o  ! |
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k0be
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racism in nigeria ke?  racism isn't the most appropriate description for it, but it can be likened to racism. I’m not proposing that tribalism is a form of racism, instead i'm linking it to racism as a practice which fosters racist attitudes of inherent superiority. |
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Vicjustice (m)
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I'm glad many people knew, and others are beginning to understand that what they called Tribalism is indeed RACISM: This is my purpose of starting this thread.
I started this thread because i wanted to bring to the awareness of Nigerians that what they refere to as Tribalism is indeed RACISM.
We are a people of about 150 million, with over 200 languages and divers dialects, we have different characteristics and lacking resemblance except that we're blacks, and more still, we have different roots of origins: isn't it ridiculous that most Nigerians think that the difference between these ethnic groups is Tribe? Of course, it's RACE
I'll continue to bring into light that Race is not just the colours of the skin, remember that the Aborigines in Australia have black skins, but that doesn't make them the same race as the Urhobo people
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Vicjustice (m)
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I'm glad many people knew, and others are beginning to understand that what they called Tribalism is indeed RACISM: This is my purpose of starting this thread.
I started this thread because i wanted to bring to the awareness of Nigerians that what they refere to as Tribalism is indeed RACISM.
We are a people of about 150 million, with over 200 languages and divers dialects, we have different characteristics and lacking resemblance except that we're blacks, and more still, we have different roots of origins: isn't it ridiculous that most Nigerians think that the difference between these ethnic groups is Tribe? Of course, it's RACE
I'll continue to bring into light that Race is not just the colours of the skin, remember that the Aborigines in Australia have black skins, but that doesn't make them the same race as the Urhobo people
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lazy (m)
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I really don't understand what you are trying to argue. Does it make a difference if something is Racism, Tribalism, or Nationalism? If one is using it as a means of Supremacy over another, they are all wrong.
Now as far as RACE and the term that we know today is a European created way of classifying Humans. These classifications were broken down into colors (White, Yellow, Red, Brown, and Black). To be classified as as one of these groups was more than just the color of your skin.
1) Ancestry (Geography)
2) Facial Features
3) Skin Color
4) Hair Texture
etc,
Skin Color was not the only means of determining RACE when it was created during the Age of Exploration and out of the ideas of Darwinism.
I think you may have some definitions on RACE, Race my be used sometimes in place of Nation (Don't get Nation confused with Nation-State and present day countries as they exist), but your context is all wrong.
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Vicjustice (m)
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I really don't understand what you are trying to argue. Does it make a difference if something is Racism, Tribalism, or Nationalism? If one is using it as a means of Supremacy over another, they are all wrong.
Now as far as RACE and the term that we know today is a European created way of classifying Humans. These classifications were broken down into colors (White, Yellow, Red, Brown, and Black). To be classified as as one of these groups was more than just the color of your skin.
1) Ancestry (Geography)
2) Facial Features
3) Skin Color
4) Hair Texture
etc,
Skin Color was not the only means of determining RACE when it was created during the Age of Exploration and out of the ideas of Darwinism.
I think you may have some definitions on RACE, Race my be used sometimes in place of Nation (Don't get Nation confused with Nation-State and present day countries as they exist), but your context is all wrong.
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