Why Are Nigerians So Abusive And Insulting?

omoge  are you telling me?
These Nigerians in Nigeria just talk anyhow,especially the men.
Before you know it they'll start calling girls ashewo and describing private parts.
are they drinking these bad behaviour from pure water?

Gosh, this is so funny, Nairaland never ceases to make me laugh  

Nsukka!!!!!!
biko wetin be sacrament

not to get into a slug-fest, but what about the Nigerians in Nigeria calling every one outside a 'shit packer'? 

that doesn't sound nice and calm to me. after driving your car in Lagos with shouts of 'mr i go drive myself, your mates don get driver' 'na your papa get road' and listening to endless shouts on the radio of 'oh oh yahoo oh oh, yahoozeee' and the likes, how on earth can you be calm?? 

unless you live in a hamlet far removed from Nigerian urban madness

nwando nwa mama i no fit accuse you o, you be my paddy for jungle

Thanks to everyone who has responded and given various reasons. There will always be reasons so are we going to cave into aggression because we have a reason to do so. I know Nigeria can be a tasking place to live in but it is still not the a war torn region and hasn't experienced (thank God) war or famine consistently like some other countries.

I agree there are mean people everywhere but I do not think Nigerians fall into that category its just our tendency to be flippant and express ourselves with harsh words. The people in question may actually be nice people who have just learnt to behave this way. What can we do to change this at least on Nairaland


Thanks correction noted.


Its a relief to know this is not a unique observation at least there is hope for us. Is it possible that people find it easy to abuse people they don't see and would be a bit more reserved if it was a  face to face discussion?


This posting started by asking a question based on specific behaviours found on Nairaland which correct me if I am wrong has a large  Nigerian membership. I can go through some specific threads and point out abuses that where  uncalled for this has happened over and and over again and  I would  like to know why. It is not good enough for me that it happens elsewhere so its okay. If I was on another forum with the same kind of pattern I would be asking the same questions.

true but they ignore the insults unlike nigerians when they hear someone speak bad of them or give them bad eye, they want to challenge the person.

I think d issue of abuse and insult need to be addressed on this forum
If there is a penalty for reacting aggresively or rudely to an issue on this forum
peolpe would learn to be more polite and cautious in there pattern of interaction

^{Na grammartical blunder some dey come find for here,}  _{and na that one dey cause fight pass}

Why Nigerians are so insulting and abusive? Hmn. I believe its because the struggle for survival has made most people unnecessarily aggressive and intolerant. What you see on Nairaland is only a reflection of Nigerians in the physical world.

Thanks again to everyone. I would like your opinon on this:





Please can someone tell me how the above statement resulted in the following one. Honestly I was not looking for this I was enjoying a thread about the meaning of names. I was half expecting someone who understands yoruba to guess her name and the next thing i saw was this!

Its because we are born into a struggle. We are natural born struggler that need to fend for themselves and in order to fend for ourselves, we have to be aggressive.

Thats where all the insults and things come from. Its just in our blood to be insultive.

Thanks that's one aspect of  it. Kill a suggestion before it  even takes root.


You have just echoed my point people should moderate their responses. We have self control and can exercise it. We are not machines remotely controlled. How many of us would be flippant in a job interview say in a Bank for a dream job after 6 years of unemployment, hunger and frustration? my guess is that we would be polite because its important to us. Bottom line it has not become important to us to be polite that's why some of us are very quick to abuse and insult others.

It is quite disturbing how many of us easily resort to throwing abuses and insults at others on seemingly harmless issues. We become so combative and one wonders atimes why we don't feel any restriction in displaying this bad trait. I think another factor responsible for this, apart from bad upbringing and bad educational background earlier mentioned, is the desire of many of us wanting to dominate others.

i think some of them are worst off in real life. if they can insult you while hiding behind the computer, pray you don't meet them in real life o.

This thread is spot on. Sometimes I really wonder what this is all adout. You can't just hold a decent debate on an issue without it turning to some mudslinging event. The fact that the person on one end of the terminal does not know jack about the other person on the other side hardly stops them from trading insults.

Simple discussion, little difference in opinion, gbam!!!! One person is already using cuss words like it is going out of fashion.

the abuse has started as i expected . . .