I asked myself this question again this evening.. here's why;
I didn't want to bring this here because of nairaland and it's wahala but anyways this is my own space 🌝.
Now sincerely, why do people act surprised if they see you are you are Yoruba Lady and look pretty according to them ( I think beauty is subjective)
The reason for this is, not once not twice have people asked me if I'm really Yoruba.. Like?? It's a little flustering and they don't even realize it 😂 I don't get it .
I remember when I was working during the strike at a secondary school in Lag, the kids will greet me cheerfully in the morning while smiling saying mistress, you look beautiful today. I'll smile and say thank you o my darlings..it was adorable to hear lol then one day, I overheard some of them arguing that I was ibo, I have an English first name so they couldn't tell. When I entered the class they asked me again, that's when I told them noo I'm not ibo o😂 kids my goodness.. and this have been a pattern, sort of. So this evening again my friends and I were coming from church o someone stopped us to invite us for a program somehow in the middle of convincing..one of us wasn't having it, we were delayed and hungry so he faced her and was like you this geh you are ibo abi.. that's how we faced him and what does he mean and could he tell people's tribe from their face he said yes he could, so we asked him to guess..of course he was wrong my two friends were actually esan and etsako when I told him I'm Yoruba not esan he was like "really but you don't look like one, your smile is so beautiful" thank God he couldn't read my thoughts that moment 😅
I really didn't find it flattering, another stereotypical being. I'm full blooded Yoruba and pretty decent looking, not exceptional I don't get why people, not all though, expect to see something else... I have very beautiful friends, and siblings back at home, and even the little ones I meet here all look good. So why that reaction all the time? I'm not a stereotypical person and I love adventure, learning new things, new languages and cultures that's why I find it is really off putting when I meet narrow minded people.
Besides our mostly dark skin, I don't think there's any truth in the belief that if you are a Yoruba lady you are not supposed to look pretty😤..it's wrong guys, dark skin is not a bad thing,I actually love it, I love being a dark skinned girl, fair skin is also pretty but it's should not be the standard for beauty.
PS; I know a lot of fair skinned Yorubas too.
We move.

I smell incoming vawulence on yourba people soon ..

Im not a tribalistic person tho
Let love lead

So, what is special about being fair-skinned? 🙄

No tribe is exempted from beauty

mymadam:
So, what is special about being fair-skinned? 🙄

Nothing

Being beautiful doesn't have to do with tribe or family. As ugly pple exist across all tribes so do beautiful pple also exists.

Should we tell her? 😂😂😂

it's better if I don't say anything

As e dey pain dem, e dey sweet us, as e dey sweet us e dey pain dem. .

Itooweak4una:
Why exactly do you feel you need to share this with us? The offline validation you've gotten isn't enough ba. You need simps to make you feel better about yourself

Its not about me.
You're free to air ur opinion tho.

DispatcherLagos:
There are beautiful Yoruba people too. However, they should work on their personal hygiene

Lol

Beauty has no tribe

WTF!!!!

I've never won the defense argument that I am not Igbo from both Yorubas and Igbos I have met. So I just walk away.

One idiot had to tell me to go and question my mum or go for a DNA test because I don't look Yoruba.

The only elderly woman to accept I'm Yoruba after scrutinizing me said she's familiar with my tribe that they're always good-looking.

I'll be speaking my native dialect and they'd still be asking if I'm Igbo. The worst comes from Igbos.

It's disgusting to think or have that mentality that Yorubas are not handsome/beautiful.

First of all Pinsure or ...

Anyway, there is no smoke without fire...

But overall every ethnic group has its kind of good looks.
One of the most beautiful women I've met overseas is a Yoruba lady.
Her "architecture" is second to none. What saved me was that I am not available.
I don't know what I would have done if I was single.

mizzhathaway:
I asked myself this question again this evening.. here's why;
I didn't want to bring this here because of nairaland and it's wahala but anyways this is my own space 🌝.
Now sincerely, why do people act surprised if they see you are you are Yoruba Lady and look pretty according to them ( I think beauty is subjective)
The reason for this is, not once not twice have people asked me if I'm really Yoruba.. Like?? It's a little flustering and they don't even realize it 😂 I don't get it .
I remember when I was working during the strike at a secondary school in Lag, the kids will greet me cheerfully in the morning while smiling saying mistress, you look beautiful today. I'll smile and say thank you o my darlings..it was adorable to hear lol then one day, I overheard some of them arguing that I was ibo, I have an English first name so they couldn't tell. When I entered the class they asked me again, that's when I told them noo I'm not ibo o😂 kids my goodness.. and this have been a pattern, sort of. So this evening again my friends and I were coming from church o someone stopped us to invite us for a program somehow in the middle of convincing..one of us wasn't having it, we were delayed and hungry so he faced her and was like you this geh you are ibo abi.. that's how we faced him and what does he mean and could he tell people's tribe from their face he said yes he could, so we asked him to guess..of course he was wrong my two friends were actually esan and etsako when I told him I'm Yoruba not esan he was like "really but you don't look like one, your smile is so beautiful" thank God he couldn't read my thoughts that moment 😅
I really didn't find it flattering, another stereotypical being. I'm full blooded Yoruba and pretty decent looking, not exceptional I don't get why people, not all though, expect to see something else... I have very beautiful friends, and siblings back at home, and even the little ones I meet here all look good. So why that reaction all the time? I'm not a stereotypical person and I love adventure, learning new things, new languages and cultures that's why I find it is really off putting when I meet narrow minded people.
Besides our mostly dark skin, I don't think there's any truth in the belief that if you are a Yoruba lady you are not supposed to look pretty😤..it's wrong guys, dark skin is not a bad thing,I actually love it, I love being a dark skinned girl, fair skin is also pretty but it's should not be the standard for beauty.
PS; I know a lot of fair skinned Yorubas too.
We move.

The truth is, beautiful and ugly people are found everywhere just as we have rich and poor in all tribes and races too, but the bitter truth is that due to genetic factors, some race or tribe are more physically endowed than others.



Can you compare the Chinese with Arabs when it comes to physical beauty? No. But still, we have beautiful people among Chinese but in generality, Arabs have far more good looking people than Chinese. Even among the Asians with almost similar gene, The Filipinos look far cuter than other Asians like Chinese. Same with Malaysians, etc.



So yes there are beautiful and handsome people in Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, Efik, Ibibio, Fulani, Idoma, Bini, Ijaw, etc tribes but there seems to be far more handsome and beautiful looking people among the Igbos than other tribes, these things has to do with genetics, cultural practice, food, etc.



If you check the Igbos very well, they eat vegetables and leafy foods a lot, it forms majority of their diet, and couple with other genetic factors which could be the reason they produce more good looking people than other tribes.


If you check Yoruba food menu, they enjoy oily foods and plenty oil in their meal, coupled with meat. The result of this is that Yoruba women usually have fleshy buttocks because the excess fat from their oil rich diets gets stored around their bombom. Same cultural diet make Fulanis and Hausas very slim and slender with pretty cheeky face.



Dear pretty Miss op, don't let it disturb you, it is a natural human nature to engage in fallacy of hasty generalizations based on some facts. But I tell you, Yoruba men and other tribes men know this and that is part of the reason they try so much to marry an Igbo lady as a wife when they become financially successful, mostly to have good looking children.



If you check on Nairaland, due to the fact that majority of drug trafficking cases in Asia we read here ends up being Igbos, anytime you hear that someone was caught with drugs, the first thing you would assume is that the person must be Igbo. Same way, once we hear a drug trafficking case in Saudi Arabia, we conclude it must be a Yoruba Muslim or an Hausa-Fulani person, and when we hear a ritualist news, we first assume it happened in Ogun or Oyo state.




The world live by generalization fallacies

franchasofficia:
The truth is, beautiful and ugly people are found everywhere just as we have rich and poor in all tribes and races too, but the bitter truth is that due to genetic factors, some race or tribe are more physically endowed than others.



Can you compare the Chinese with Arabs when it comes to physical beauty? No. But still, we have beautiful people among Chinese but in generality, Arabs have far more good looking people than Chinese. Even among the Asians with almost similar gene, The Filipinos look far cuter than other Asians like Chinese. Same with Malaysians, etc.



So yes there are beautiful and handsome people in Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, Efik, Ibibio, Fulani, Idoma, Bini, Ijaw, etc tribes but there seems to be far more handsome and beautiful looking people among the Igbos than other tribes, these things has to do with genetics, cultural practice, food, etc.



If you check the Igbos very well, they eat vegetables and leafy foods a lot, it forms majority of their diet, and couple with other genetic factors which could be the reason they produce more good looking people than other tribes.


If you check Yoruba food menu, they enjoy oily foods and plenty oil in their meal, coupled with meat. The result of this is that Yoruba women usually have fleshy buttocks because the excess fat from their oil rich diets gets stored around their bombom. Same cultural diet make Fulanis and Hausas very slim and slender with pretty cheeky face.



Dear pretty Miss op, don't let it disturb you, it is a natural human nature to engage in fallacy of hasty generalizations based on some facts. But I tell you, Yoruba men and other tribes men know this and that is part of the reason they try so much to marry an Igbo lady as a wife when they become financially successful, mostly to have good looking children.



If you check on Nairaland, due to the fact that majority of drug trafficking cases in Asia we read here ends up being Igbos, anytime you hear that someone was caught with drugs, the first thing you would assume is that the person must be Igbo. Same way, once we hear a drug trafficking case in Saudi Arabia, we conclude it must be a Yoruba Muslim or an Hausa-Fulani person, and when we hear a ritualist news, we first assume it happened in Ogun or Oyo state.




The world live by generation fallacies

Watch and see, this pure TRUTH you just stated here will be attacked by some people who hate the TRUTH and are always happy to wallow in lies even when they know the TRUTH.

franchasofficia:
The truth is, beautiful and ugly people are found everywhere just as we have rich and poor in all tribes and races too, but the bitter truth is that due to genetic factors, some race or tribe are more physically endowed than others.



Can you compare the Chinese with Arabs when it comes to physical beauty? No. But still, we have beautiful people among Chinese but in generality, Arabs have far more good looking people than Chinese. Even among the Asians with almost similar gene, The Filipinos look far cuter than other Asians like Chinese. Same with Malaysians, etc.



So yes there are beautiful and handsome people in Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, Efik, Ibibio, Fulani, Idoma, Bini, Ijaw, etc tribes but there seems to be far more handsome and beautiful looking people among the Igbos than other tribes, these things has to do with genetics, cultural practice, food, etc.



If you check the Igbos very well, they eat vegetables and leafy foods a lot, it forms majority of their diet, and couple with other genetic factors which could be the reason they produce more good looking people than other tribes.


If you check Yoruba food menu, they enjoy oily foods and plenty oil in their meal, coupled with meat. The result of this is that Yoruba women usually have fleshy buttocks because the excess fat from their oil rich diets gets stored around their bombom. Same cultural diet make Fulanis and Hausas very slim and slender with pretty cheeky face.



Dear pretty Miss op, don't let it disturb you, it is a natural human nature to engage in fallacy of hasty generalizations based on some facts. But I tell you, Yoruba men and other tribes men know this and that is part of the reason they try so much to marry an Igbo lady as a wife when they become financially successful, mostly to have good looking children.



If you check on Nairaland, due to the fact that majority of drug trafficking cases in Asia we read here ends up being Igbos, anytime you hear that someone was caught with drugs, the first thing you would assume is that the person must be Igbo. Same way, once we hear a drug trafficking case in Saudi Arabia, we conclude it must be a Yoruba Muslim or an Hausa-Fulani person, and when we hear a ritualist news, we first assume it happened in Ogun or Oyo state.




The world live by generation fallacies

Hmm
Alright

Op you are suffering from serious mental sickness and inferiority complex.

mizzhathaway:
I asked myself this question again this evening.. here's why;
I didn't want to bring this here because of nairaland and it's wahala but anyways this is my own space 🌝.
Now sincerely, why do people act surprised if they see you are you are Yoruba Lady and look pretty according to them ( I think beauty is subjective)
The reason for this is, not once not twice have people asked me if I'm really Yoruba.. Like?? It's a little flustering and they don't even realize it 😂 I don't get it .
I remember when I was working during the strike at a secondary school in Lag, the kids will greet me cheerfully in the morning while smiling saying mistress, you look beautiful today. I'll smile and say thank you o my darlings..it was adorable to hear lol then one day, I overheard some of them arguing that I was ibo, I have an English first name so they couldn't tell. When I entered the class they asked me again, that's when I told them noo I'm not ibo o😂 kids my goodness.. and this have been a pattern, sort of. So this evening again my friends and I were coming from church o someone stopped us to invite us for a program somehow in the middle of convincing..one of us wasn't having it, we were delayed and hungry so he faced her and was like you this geh you are ibo abi.. that's how we faced him and what does he mean and could he tell people's tribe from their face he said yes he could, so we asked him to guess..of course he was wrong my two friends were actually esan and etsako when I told him I'm Yoruba not esan he was like "really but you don't look like one, your smile is so beautiful" thank God he couldn't read my thoughts that moment 😅
I really didn't find it flattering, another stereotypical being. I'm full blooded Yoruba and pretty decent looking, not exceptional I don't get why people, not all though, expect to see something else... I have very beautiful friends, and siblings back at home, and even the little ones I meet here all look good. So why that reaction all the time? I'm not a stereotypical person and I love adventure, learning new things, new languages and cultures that's why I find it is really off putting when I meet narrow minded people.
Besides our mostly dark skin, I don't think there's any truth in the belief that if you are a Yoruba lady you are not supposed to look pretty😤..it's wrong guys, dark skin is not a bad thing,I actually love it, I love being a dark skinned girl, fair skin is also pretty but it's should not be the standard for beauty.
PS; I know a lot of fair skinned Yorubas too.
We move.

maybe you are a fair skin lady because it us generally acceptable to some people that all fair people are Ibos.

JDistribute:
Op you are suffering from serious mental sickness and inferiority complex.

Life is not that serious sir. Take it easy, you'll be fine.

mizzhathaway:

Life is not that serious sir. Take it easy, you'll be fine.

Am sure you get the point.

I was thinking you had fair skin, which was why you were mistaken for Igbo since such mistakes are common, but you have dark skin and now I agree with your confusion.

Why can't some people read things objectively and comprehensively..
This is an anonymous forum and Its just a safe place to rant and discuss petty things and take a break from the real stressful world .
It's not a must to comment anyway

Persephone1:
I understand where you are coming from and honestly I have experienced several times. The surprising part is it is the Yoruba themselves that ask these questions.

Really?😃

JDistribute:

Am sure you get the point.

You didn't make any point sir
Sorry for disappointing you.

youngsahito:
maybe you are a fair skin lady because it us generally acceptable to some people that all fair people are Ibos.

I'm not o
Which makes it more surprising.
Like I'm supposed to look like an ape?
Funny