Amefrica:

I'm not talking about the village, I haven't been there. But, MOST I've seen here in the city are disrespectful. #NoOffence. All I need is an Igbo kid to prove me wrong. Which I haven't seen till now.

Ngokafor:


....i am really sorry i bothered to comment here,it was clearly a mistake on my part.I hate conversing with your type(no offense)..

....am telling you what i know and you are saying something else...keep searching for an Igbo kid that will lick your yoruba feet..*unfollows thread*..

belltwelve: OP should stop stereotyping because every tribe has both polite and ill-mannered people.

tonychristopher: I was thinking that yorubas greet a lot but when I started staying in their midst I realized that its more of eye service that real greetings....they will great you such that you think they are stupid...how can you greet somebody 6 times in a day in a bid to get something

igbos don't attach toomuch importance to greetings cos salutations isn't love

Amefrica: We used to have Igbo tenants and there's this particular family, they have 6 children. 14, 12, 10, 7, 5, 3 respectively.

I swear this children, were so stu-pid, and they lacked manners. They'd come to our apartment, they'd not knock, entered without greeting anybody including my dad, mum and sister.

Sometimes, I'd send them out, ask them to knock and greet. I'd also scold them but their parents would take it to the head..

Not this family alone, I've seen a lot of them, they lack respect. Unlike yoruba kids, they are going to greet you even more than once..

I'm not a tribalist, we are all one. I just wanna know why they behave like that..

Amefrica: We used to have Igbo tenants and there's this particular family, they have 6 children. 14, 12, 10, 7, 5, 3 respectively.

I swear this children, were so stu-pid, and they lacked manners. They'd come to our apartment, they'd not knock, entered without greeting anybody including my dad, mum and sister.

Sometimes, I'd send them out, ask them to knock and greet. I'd also scold them but their parents would take it to the head..

Not this family alone, I've seen a lot of them, they lack respect. Unlike yoruba kids, they are going to greet you even more than once..

I'm not a tribalist, we are all one. I just wanna know why they behave like that..

Amefrica: We used to have Igbo tenants and there's this particular family, they have 6 children. 14, 12, 10, 7, 5, 3 respectively.

I swear this children, were so stu-pid, and they lacked manners. They'd come to our apartment, they'd not knock, entered without greeting anybody including my dad, mum and sister.

Sometimes, I'd send them out, ask them to knock and greet. I'd also scold them but their parents would take it to the head..

Not this family alone, I've seen a lot of them, they lack respect. Unlike yoruba kids, they are going to greet you even more than once..

I'm not a tribalist, we are all one. I just wanna know why they behave like that..

mafolayomi: that's nt thru o, maybe here in lag sha, but over there in d east, mbaise umuofuga to be precise, them sabi greet die, na u go even tire self. So tey if u ar paassing on d road dey will be waving u, dey don't know u o, and u must respond, to an extent dat I won't reply again na my husband go dey wave bak. And even here in lag, d igbos am close to greets very well. Mind u, am married to an igbo guy, and where I mentioned above is my husby's place, so I know what am talking about

bluerange: it depends on the upbringing. am igbo (lmo) born and raised in lagos but l grew up addressing my older ones as dede and dada. no matter the tribe am particular about a child being respectful to older ones as it helps in character building.

ngozievergreen: Op, its the children's upbringing and nothing else.
igbos greet elders.
and its not in our culture to bow down and do anything, what exactly are u bowing down for.
Nobody shd bow down for me, am not bowing for anybody.
.
What if I start a topic like this, 'y do Yoruba kids know how to abuse, even at tender ages?
Is that a sign of respect too.
I mean, abuse is an art they got to learn.
Abeg.....

Afam4eva: Respect and greeting style is relative. That Igbo don't greet the way you do does not make them any less respectful. If our elders don't find offensive our method of greeting then it's not disrespectful. We don't have to lie down on the floor before you know that we have respect. It's called culture. The kids you mentioned obviously have bad manners which is the fault of their upbringing and not where they come from. I also have Yorubas, Igbos etc that barge into my house without knocking. It's an individual thing.

Amefrica:

It's a sign of respect! Looking straight into elder's eyes for a long period is disrespectful. You spoke well tho

ngozievergreen:

In Yoruba nah, not Igbo!
U shdnt want every custom to resemble urs.
Abusing other ppl with names, as is found more in Yoruba kids isn't sign of respect either.

Amefrica:

Yea right! But most of the Igbo kids lack etiquette and are mannerless. They just bump into you and side walk you.

Amefrica: We used to have Igbo tenants and there's this particular family, they have 6 children. 14, 12, 10, 7, 5, 3 respectively.

I swear this children, were so stu-pid, and they lacked manners. They'd come to our apartment, they'd not knock, entered without greeting anybody including my dad, mum and sister.

Sometimes, I'd send them out, ask them to knock and greet. I'd also scold them but their parents would take it to the head..

Not this family alone, I've seen a lot of them, they lack respect. Unlike yoruba kids, they are going to greet you even more than once..

I'm not a tribalist, we are all one. I just wanna know why they behave like that..

ngozievergreen:

So, not greeting u is equal to mannerless?
mtchew
U just pass by kids and expect greetings, so that u keep fit abi?
smh

You're fast enough in d brain to generalise with just a family. Hmmmm... I think u're reali fast...d fastest. Have u taken part in any race competition, precisely 7000000 metre race?

Ngokafor: @op you are wrong there...a lot of Igbo kids greet their elders,especially the ones in the village..it has nothing to do with tribe per se cos a i have to always remind the children of a yoruba friend of mine to say hi to me..

..concerning the Igbo village thing,am usually taken aback at the way children greet random older strangers they pass by which is not something i am used to to be honest...

...the only difference is that they do not do all the kneeling down and lying flat on the floor like yorubas do,which is more of a cultural thing...but royalties are given a special kind of greeting though..

ngozievergreen:

So, not greeting u is equal to mannerless?
mtchew
U just pass by kids and expect greetings, so that u keep fit abi?
smh

Malawian:

you dey mind am/ who wan greet carton man like am?

Amefrica:

And who in hell is this?

Malawian:

you dey mind am/ who wan greet carton man like am?

Malawian:

i am on earth, you are in hell. see your miserable life. running up and down this thread with your brazen tribalism and generalizing all igbo kids like you have met all of them.

i suppose i should be grateful this thread is in this section cos i am on ban yet again in politics.

you no wan sabi me bros.

Eze Promoe: Not that I'm taking this personal.
Coming from a Yoruba man, I know that it will look offensive the way those kids greet casually.
I'm an evidence of circumstance. I lost favour before a father of one of my female friends then during the year of my youth service because of my way of greeting.
I was like "good afternoon sir" with heads looking straight at his face. The man walked me out immediately from his house.
As in, he took that very serious.

fairari022: ur problem wasn't ur head straight up. It's becos u belong to #team poverty#

Park my Chevrolet camaro at the front of his mud house , na him go say good afternoon my inlaw first, I.e b4 I even step out of my car.


I blame u dis Time and not GEJ

eluquenson: Sincerely speaking, yoruba has the best culture & orientation in Nigeria