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Why Do Nigerians Look At White People As Advanced Humans by frankmoney(m): 9:18am On Jun 29, 2012
This stuff is very common in nigeria when people see a white man its like dy have seen an alien & dy treat him as if his special....lol....wonna knw why?

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Re: Why Do Nigerians Look At White People As Advanced Humans by smsgrouper: 11:39am On Jun 29, 2012
You use a computer or mobile phone to write this ur post, we drive a car, yu wear shirt an trouser, you speak english, you go like go uk or usa etc. You com dey ask why we look at them as if they are superior. Ofcos they are

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Re: Why Do Nigerians Look At White People As Advanced Humans by PROUDIGBO(m): 12:00pm On Jun 29, 2012
Sometimes when we see some amazing feats in science and technology, my Nnewi friend would say jokingly: bekee wu agbara, bekee wu mmuo (white man is a spirit).

I still say that to myself sometimes when i see everyday things like a huge jumbo jet taking to the skies in all its majesty grin. I know......pathetic innit?

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Re: Why Do Nigerians Look At White People As Advanced Humans by frankmoney(m): 1:38pm On Jun 29, 2012
Lols....asin even the ones that are not americans or russians let's say a man frm portugal ,bt as far as he is white naija pipz will gv em respect pass gej
Re: Why Do Nigerians Look At White People As Advanced Humans by Nobody: 1:52pm On Jun 29, 2012
Caucasian is synonymous with advancement, developement, improvement, any-other-thing-good-ment. So yeah, many a time, Nigerians feel inferior to their caucasian counterparts.

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Re: Why Do Nigerians Look At White People As Advanced Humans by Nobody: 2:02pm On Jun 29, 2012
On behalf of me,myself and I,the white race are nt advanced humans 2 me in any way.

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Re: Why Do Nigerians Look At White People As Advanced Humans by zander87: 2:09pm On Jun 29, 2012
All people and race are equal under God. The difference we think we see are institutional differences which makes their society superior to ours. For instance, I am not aware of any African company that spends a lot in (Research and Development)R&D and most African countries do not have patent protection. If you give caucasians our institutions and societies, they too will consider themselves failures. The jumbo jet was made possible because of the hefty subsidies for R&D that Boeing and Airbus received from the American and European governments respectively.

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Re: Why Do Nigerians Look At White People As Advanced Humans by Nobody: 2:09pm On Jun 29, 2012
The painful truth is that the so called white men, are better evolved homo sapiens. Blacks are the earlier human species that existed....but whites are better evolved species. Ever thought why an average black man is selfish than average white ?

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Re: Why Do Nigerians Look At White People As Advanced Humans by LagosShia: 2:16pm On Jun 29, 2012
see picture attached below.

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Re: Why Do Nigerians Look At White People As Advanced Humans by Lenny5000(m): 2:16pm On Jun 29, 2012
I dont believe Nigerians see white people as superior beings maybe Nigerians at home are more warm/hospitable and polite because in the West so many Nigerians feel they are superior to every other person. They actually look down on most people and even treat some with scorn

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Re: Why Do Nigerians Look At White People As Advanced Humans by corinna: 2:17pm On Jun 29, 2012
It is not just nigerians alone. Truth is many black people infact feel inferior to the white race for folowing reasons
1. our history have been re-constructed and as a result we have been educated to feel that way.
2. Unlike us (blacks) white people love themselves and as a result they place much value on every individual belonging to their race. In other words they love, encourage and support one another. While we hate our colour, hate ourselves and vent out our frustration on anybody that look like us. Any one darker than us; we call ugly and those that are light skinned we call beautiful. - These are the main reason why black neighbourhood and black nations reman under-developed
3. We honour and idolise the whites who make us feel us feel small and whose language we do not understand and hate, stereotype even our neighbour who are of other ethnicity.
4. My list can go on and on but let it stop but not without saying that not all blacks/nigerians feel inferoir to whites and also not all whites feel superior to blacks but then, if we act inferior to them; then what can the do but pity us.
5. Solution: let´s begin to love ourselves and others irrespective of language or nation and we will prosper and nolonger feel incompetent before a white man which in most cases we are even mentally and physically better than.

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Re: Why Do Nigerians Look At White People As Advanced Humans by KayDee4: 2:23pm On Jun 29, 2012
smsgrouper: You use a computer or mobile phone to write this ur post, we drive a car, yu wear shirt an trouser, you speak english, you go like go uk or usa etc. You com dey ask why we look at them as if they are superior. Ofcos they are
Says who ? shocked shocked Pls do NOT belittle yourself by thinking of them as superior and yourself inferior. Everyone is equal regardless of race or colour, they may have made inventions, yes, but we have coloured people that have also made outstanding achievements in different areas of life and in some cases, black people/Nigerians have even done better than their oyibo counterparts.

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Re: Why Do Nigerians Look At White People As Advanced Humans by norrisman: 2:24pm On Jun 29, 2012
@Lagosshia.

Only smart people will get the story your two pictures tell.

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Re: Why Do Nigerians Look At White People As Advanced Humans by ebamma(m): 2:26pm On Jun 29, 2012
the whites are more advanced and less corrupt than blacks,the truth must be told if we like it or not,if nigeria with all it oil wealth was a european country,it could have been among the most developed countries in the world.

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Re: Why Do Nigerians Look At White People As Advanced Humans by frankmoney(m): 2:26pm On Jun 29, 2012
Billyonaire: The painful truth is that the so called white men, are better evolved homo sapiens. Blacks are the earlier human species that existed....but whites are better evolved species. Ever thought why an average black man is selfish than average white ?
lmao ok o.....buh nt all white guys are genius....we've got some smart black pipz bt na corruption hold us

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Re: Why Do Nigerians Look At White People As Advanced Humans by Kayuzze1: 2:26pm On Jun 29, 2012
smsgrouper: You use a computer or mobile phone to write this ur post, we drive a car, yu wear shirt an trouser, you speak english, you go like go uk or usa etc. You com dey ask why we look at them as if they are superior. Ofcos they are
Pls come to think of it, why do u people refer to them as white in the 1st place? Is the color of their skin white, or is it that they live in a country that is painted white? Anyway, I now see why we face racial discrimanation over there since we position them superior and place ourselves inferior... Let me put this straight to you guys, 1ce we continue to place them above us,we should just erase our mind of meeting up with them or dream of overtaking them... Nonsense!

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Re: Why Do Nigerians Look At White People As Advanced Humans by kaiter: 2:30pm On Jun 29, 2012
thanks for sharing.[img]http://www.lzxin.info/g.gif[/img]
Re: Why Do Nigerians Look At White People As Advanced Humans by frankmoney(m): 2:31pm On Jun 29, 2012
LagosShia: see picture attached below.
lmao exactly wat am talking abt
Re: Why Do Nigerians Look At White People As Advanced Humans by Blackteeth(m): 2:32pm On Jun 29, 2012
Its all about the difference in culture. The white man's culture which involves the zeal to explore, innovate and adventure is what places him where he is today. This culture is been passed from generation to generation. The black man's culture involves very little zeal to innovate, explore, research and learn. If a white boy grows up in a black society he would take up the "uncivilized" African culture. The reverse is also the case when a black boy grows up in a white community.

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Re: Why Do Nigerians Look At White People As Advanced Humans by tevinsolt: 2:36pm On Jun 29, 2012
Billyonaire: The painful truth is that the so called white men, are better evolved homo sapiens. Blacks are the earlier human species that existed....but whites are better evolved species. Ever thought why an average black man is selfish than average white ?

lmaoo with your answer why won't you feel inferior shocked... race is a social construct, anthropologist will tell you there's nothing like race. yes modern blacks especially west Africans and other ethnicity around the globe have gone through series of genetic mutation and environment adaptation to look how we are......what's holding us back in Africa is our mentality and what not.

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Re: Why Do Nigerians Look At White People As Advanced Humans by frankmoney(m): 2:37pm On Jun 29, 2012
Blackteeth: Its all about the difference in culture. The white man's culture which involves the zeal to explore, innovate and adventure is what places him where he is today. This culture is been passed from generation to generation. The black man's culture involves very little zeal to innovate, explore, research and learn. If a white boy grows up in a black society he would take up the "uncivilized" African culture. The reverse is also the case when a black boy grows up in a white community.
exactly

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Re: Why Do Nigerians Look At White People As Advanced Humans by AkpuNku2: 2:44pm On Jun 29, 2012
weather we Africans like it or not, they are our superior and there is noting you and i or anybody can do about it

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Re: Why Do Nigerians Look At White People As Advanced Humans by Nobody: 2:50pm On Jun 29, 2012
Are they not? undecided make we no deceive ourselves jare

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Re: Why Do Nigerians Look At White People As Advanced Humans by mrrock: 2:52pm On Jun 29, 2012
@post.
Are you talking about the same greedy whites that yahoo boy have disorganized their sense of logic?. The same foolish whites that they say are sending millions of dollars to yahoo boys?. You don't know who Nigerians are!. You must be a very inferior id depressed village man.
Re: Why Do Nigerians Look At White People As Advanced Humans by honeric01(m): 2:59pm On Jun 29, 2012
LagosShia: see picture attached below.

Quite revealing.
Re: Why Do Nigerians Look At White People As Advanced Humans by nevderek(m): 3:08pm On Jun 29, 2012
@mrrock...
deep down your mind of minds, is that really your idea of superiority?
Lying and defrauding?
We are talking about inventions and you are blabbing on cheap white lies, nobody really needs intellectuals to lie.
But if you really think your yahoo boys are proving smarter then you have no frigging idea on who invented fraud.
You can't even begin to compare your yahoo boys to theirs..
Not saying they are better humans though, they are just much more advanced and instead of raising threads on whether they are better, we should rather emulate them.
There's no harm in facing reality, our world is a better place cos of their inventions PERIOD.

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Re: Why Do Nigerians Look At White People As Advanced Humans by tevinsolt: 3:10pm On Jun 29, 2012
the proper question should be........are the more civilized
my answer is yes they are more civilized than Africans living Africa and few up here
me probably not. smiley
Re: Why Do Nigerians Look At White People As Advanced Humans by dasparrow: 3:11pm On Jun 29, 2012
Akpu.Nku:
weather we Africans like it or not, they are our superior and there is noting you and i or anybody can do about it

Please speak for yourself. They are YOU and YOUR family's superior. They can never be my superior because they succumb to sickness and death just like any other human being out there. Christ Jesus alone is my superior. With this kinda mindset, no wonder Nigerians in Nigeria 'worship' them. I have been around whites practically all my life and I am yet to see what it is about them that will make me want to think they are better. They are just very good at conniving and taking credit for some inventions that they were not the original brain child of. This is why they can come to Africa and steal all our resources back then and even now while you people sit there like mugus grinning from ear to ear. Many of them, especially the ones from america are very dumb and don't even know Arica is a continent. Keep worshipping them you hear? Then you wonder why they treat Africans like crap! My respect for Nigerians continue to diminish with this kind of mindset people like you have.

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Re: Why Do Nigerians Look At White People As Advanced Humans by Clerverly: 3:13pm On Jun 29, 2012
Because we the whites, are superior.
Re: Why Do Nigerians Look At White People As Advanced Humans by animari(f): 3:13pm On Jun 29, 2012
The mere fact that people are seriously debating this issue is weird to me- as a white person I have not many evolved human beings white or black- its all relative of course- but look at the state of the world and tell me how eveolved are we really? Not far na!!!

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Re: Why Do Nigerians Look At White People As Advanced Humans by Biggyd2: 3:21pm On Jun 29, 2012
Inferiority Complex!!! Can't believe what I see in this country at times. In this age and time a Nigerian will see oyibo on the road and refer to him as 'massa'. Gosh! Are people for real? Many people still haven't left the master - servant relationship of the colonial era. People, please stop insulting the God that made you by thinking that a man is better than you because his skin is white and you are black!

If we strive to make Nigeria as good as their country oyibo man too go respect you.

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Re: Why Do Nigerians Look At White People As Advanced Humans by bisi16(m): 3:21pm On Jun 29, 2012
Reyginus: On behalf of me,myself and I,the white race are nt advanced humans 2 me in any way,only dia handiwork are 2 mine
Handiwork and brain go side by side innit? So if their handiwork is advanced, what is their brain then? On the other hand if ur handiwork is where it is, what is ur brain then? Abeg whistle if u no get beta talk.. They are hundreds of yrs ahead (thots, technology etc), and its not a complex, just fact..

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