₦airaland Forum

With so many things happening around the world
like terrorism, disease outbreaks, earthquakes,
floods, “ transracial” women, and racist bills being
signed into law, it gives the impression that maybe
the world is truly coming to an end.
It beats me that although killing or detaining of
Blacks in predominantly caucasian countries is
racism of the highest degree and has been going on
for a while, nothing can be done about it. Now,
some cultures or language are perceived as
inappropriate in some countries. Can this just stop?
The most recent one is that France is
uncomfortable with a certain facet of African
culture and has banned the ‘tchip’, which we call
hissing in these parts, from schools. The ‘tchip’, or
‘kissing of teeth’, is rooted firmly in African culture,
expresses disapproval, contempt, disagreement,
anger or as French minister of Justice, Christiane
Taubira explained it: a concentration of disdain.
It has been said that the sound has caused enough
of a furor in the French schooling system, so
much so that some schools have banned its use on
school premises.
“I explained to my school that I was strictly
forbidden from tchipping others!” says Eric Bongo,
deputy headmaster of Charles Baudelaire, a school
in Evry, Paris.
According to Quartz Africa, it states that whether it
is the intended effect or not, rejecting certain
cultural codes racializes them and stigmatizes
certain pupils for whom the tchip is part of
language and culture an opinion I totally supports.
Banning of Tchip in schools for children from
African descent feels racists and begs one to
wonder if such move will be taken on other cultural
habit, language with less cultural affiliation.
Although it is considered as a form of disrespect, it
is a cultural thing for a group of people and
shouldn’t be banned, maybe cautioned but banned,
I don’t think so.
Gradually they might from school to banning every
black descent in France from tchiping publicly.
Link: ynaija.com/france-bans-african-kids-tchiping-school/

Hissing is a very rude and disturbing form of expression but majority of Africans never realise it until they are exposed to people of other races.

My sister will hiss at literally anything and it annoys the crap out of me.

Light goes off (hiss), water stops running (hiss), gas finishes (hiss), someone does something on tv (hiss), as if hissing will solve the problem.

JSayin:
Hissing is a very rude and disturbing form of expression but majority of Africans never realise it until they are exposed to people of other races.

My sister will hiss at literally anything and it annoys the crap out of me.

Light goes off (hiss), water stops running (hiss), gas finishes (hiss), someone does something on tv (hiss), as if hissing will solve the problem.

I like the idea.. Its very annoying