Inked_Nerd:


Your experiences and the kind of Nigerians you have encountered or socialize with are not a representation of Nigerians as a whole. Like you said, it boiles down to who you know. As a group, we are not all the same.

It matters not if it represents or not. With my [/b]sample, [b]I'm allowed to make a 99% confidence interval that 99% of Nigerians, if they could, would not choose to live the "'urban' ghetto lifestyle".

A.D.M.:

I apologize for my assumptin, Ileke-Idi. It was silly of me to make to make that assumption without looking at the comments in their entirety.

No problem.

I'm loving this discussion. I personally went through a ghetto lifestyle phase, but it was just a phase and it happened when I was in Naij.

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Does having 4 children with different fathers make a person ghetto? Don't you have rich women with children from different fathers? What is ghetto lifestyle? If you grow up in the ghetto then you will most likely have a ghetto lifestyle. Then my ghetto standard may be different from yours....in Texas would be a luxury to one in NYC and the one in NYC a lcuxury to one in Lagos. Africans do end up in the ghetto. If by choice...I would say is because they watched too much videos/ listen too much music that glorify that lifestyle and believe its cool to live like that. Then there are those who think as long as they arrive in America by any means necessary....all will be well. When faced with reality circumstances have reduced some to this standard of living. It is for this reason that many can't return home nor have the courage to tell of their demise. Ghetto lifestyle by choice...few, by circumstances ...too many.

when you're uprooted from the life and culture you know, and thrown somewhere else where you have to learn to adapt to a different value system, anything goes.

not everyone will be remain 100% the way they were, in nigeria.

sad but true.

2buff: Hmm, interesting.

Anyway, I don't think I've ever heard of nigerian peeps living like that. We too like efizy.

wherever I've been to, naija no dey carry last.

LOL. Where in the hell do you live, I've seen many.