₦airaland Forum

Davicl:
It's high time they allow This titanic rest, anything water 🌊💦 no be me at all, my experience in landmark beach ⛱️ is still very much fresh.

What happened
If you don't mind..
I've been there once

Acidosis:
Can anyone confirm this? Maybe they're trying to get the reaction of students.

It's true 🥲

Shokoloko:
This is called the law of averages.
The average fulani has a look
The average Igbo has a look
The average Yoruba has a look
Even the average Cross river/ Akwa person has a look.
I'm not going to say much as this is a sensitive issue. If lots of people tell you that you look like a particular tribe, it is because people have eyes to see and they also perceive what the average person in each tribe looks like.
There is no point for OP to be concerned. If you are perceived to look like someone from a tribe that most of your country people perceive as good -looking accept it with grace and go about your business.

Alright, I understand.

youngsahito:
so you are telling me that you never see any lady in Ondo state that caught your attention. Only fair ibo ladies are always beautiful and I disagree that all ibo ladies are beautiful.

lolz don't mind... ondo that is my home. After Ekiti...
I can't count how many fine ladies I know.
You don't have to be yellow to be fine.

okoroemeka:
it is not a matter of believe but facts,I am from imo state and I live there,I have been to many Yoruba states,communities and interior villages due to the nature of my work,it is from my observation a matter of genetics that will make a very high percentage of girls in ondo state to look average while in my state you will effortlessly see exotic and beautiful woman at every nook and cranny,even the small one still going to primary and secondary schools are sights to behold,to a man that has spent many years in ondo state,it will be a shock if he finds himself in imo state,our girls and women are simply beautiful.

And "Ondo girls" are not sheyy 🌝
Anyways as I said before sha,beauty is subjective.

I was born and bred in this same Ondo.
Even if you think they are not... it's still very slighting when people indirectly tell others they are not supposed to look pretty cos they are from the place you thought people don't look good that's just the point I've been trying to make.. I'm not measuring who's assumed "prettier".
It's getting more annoying each time someone says it.

stuffs2002:
I really don't know what gave you the impression that there are no Yorubas outside Yorubaland.

Here in the north, I have always had Yorubas as classmates from primary school up to masters level. What I'm telling you in plain and simple English is that, you don't even have to travel down south before meeting beautiful Yoruba ladies.


I thought these SE people who have been masquerading as people of other regions supporting Peter Obi will stop at politics.

Your true identity would be revealed if I asked for your account number.

Iru wahala wo mo wa kusi bayii

You have money to send na, thank God exams are approaching I won't turn down money from a Samaritan lol.
Lemme just take it that u r pulling my legs Sha cos I don't even know what to say again. I didn't even understand half what you wrote up there

stuffs2002:
Even here in the north, there are loads of beautiful Yoruba and Igbo ladies everywhere.

I was born,bred and educated in the north and I would not visit Yoruba Land until I was posted for NYSC in Ogun state. I met several beautiful Yoruba ladies in Ogun state.

It is obvious you are not Yoruba. It is also very obvious that you have never travelled out of the region you grew up in. I have worked in Lagos and Ibadan and there are so many beautiful ladies in all of the Yoruba cities I have been.

Your mannerism probably gives you off more as an Igbo lady.

Now this is getting interesting
So you are actually serious right now?
😅😅 What a joke.
I've never travelled out of where I grew up.?
If not for uniben, I won't have ever had any reason to step out of the west bro. If not for anonymity I'd have told you my native name sef. oh but then of course, you won't believe lolz
Keep being defensive and presumptuous there.

stuffs2002:
I am a Northerner and I can easily tell that you are not Yoruba.

All I will tell you is to grow up

Excuse me mallam I can't and will never lie about my tribe. I love my tribe that much
If you don't believe, that's your headache
Not everyone on nairaland cares about the tribal banter, I was only sharing my own personal experience on my favorite social media space.
Goodnight or whatever it's called in Hausa

stuffs2002:
I am a Northerner and I can easily tell that you are not Yoruba.

All I will tell you is to grow up

Unbelievable.
😂😂

IkeIgboNile:
Op, i understand your point. I remember when i went for service in the North and after strenuous activities in the camp, i became darker than usual. People began conversation with me in yoruba, till they notice i don't understand them and they'll apologise and tell me they thought i was yoruba. I didn't find it funny at all.

😂😂 imagine

flokii:
@OP Stop flattering yourself.. beauty lies in the eye of the beholder.
That you're fine in the face of some doesn't mean you're fine in the face of others.

I get the "are you from Niger-Delta or are you Igbo" questions but I'm full blooded Yoruba.
There was a time a guy at Nnamdi Azikiwe airport argued with me that I'm a Benin guy cos of the way I talked and all.. he was so happy thinking he had seen his brother, I just told him that I'm Yoruba.

FYI, the first woman to win Miss Nigeria is a Yoruba woman.. so calm your nerves.

I wasn't actually flattering myself.
As I said in the post beauty is subjective.
My point was why people always seem to disbelieve when they see a Yoruba person who they think is pretty. It's a little offensive for me at least.

Persephone1:
I'm Yoruba, I'm dark skin but believe what Op's words are true. I have lost the count of times people ask if I'm from other tribes, I just laugh it off. I always thought it's some form of cajole from "my people " but reading another person's experience made me realize it is more than that.

Thank you
That's just the fact, it's just hilarious.
Why would I be cooking up things, for what?

ImpregnaTor:
How is it related to this post?

Or are u Yoruba and you feel ashamed with her experiences

There's even nothing shameful there
It's just fallacies as someone up there stated.
I think everyone should be free to share their experiences.
It's ok to have misconceptions we are humans anyways.

JDistribute:
Op is not Yoruba, her inferiority complex and jealousy of the yorubas made her write such a mischievous topic.

I'm embarrassed on your behalf
So this is what this is about?
I am just here sharing my own real life experience here.. I don't see any thing mischievous here,lolz
I'm a Yoruba girl Ekiti to be precise, Born and Bred in the west. I'm schooling in the south that's why I'm explaining what others think and how unflattering it sounds.
I don't have anything to prove Sha, it's not my fault you don't know how to comprehend.

Macnnoli4:
I was thinking you had fair skin, which was why you were mistaken for Igbo, but you are dark skin and now I understand your plight.

That's it

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

JDistribute:
Am sure you get the point.

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

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?😃

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

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.

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

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

Lol

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.

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

Nothing

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.

justBreathe:
Is it, really?

Saw a brand once (Papillon) that had Leo Smart's exact design. It's possible the company was acquired.

Hmm
I dunno
Maybe.

Normal thing in hall 2
At least twice a semester

EriMma1:
Oh really? 👀. I don't know about that though, I'm not a nurse .

Lol

judatech:
Nice content angle...
Start a blog with this your angle of everyday things...create a related YouTube channel and boom!
Just ask me my account details...
Ok?💪🏿

Hehehe okay

thesolutions:
Bic, so good they had to fake it. If you have gotten original bic, you have no worries. Only that the flow of ink becomes heavy when the ink has gotten to the mid region. Bic still the best but expensive.

I think it's the original Sha. Cos it's writing well.

justBreathe:
My fave pen by a mile!
I use the "Made in Nigeria" version tho.

Long lasting ink! Smooth writing!




The hierarchy is:

1. Schneider
2. Leo Smart (Where are you now?😭)
3. Bic

Smart is extinct

EriMma1:
O ho o. Even doctors. thewe ones even use their own to decorate their breast pocket.

Abi they borrow nurses' own but never return it 😂