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A popular comedian in Nigeria once told a joke of his encounter with robbers while on commercial transport. An hour earlier, he had approached a female passenger, on same bus, trying to convince her he is interesting. She used the snub button. After driving for an hour, they were cornered by gun wielding thieves who took all they had. For extra entertainment, the female passenger was forced to strip which she did after some threats and stubbornness. He was also forced to strip and he did. Her backside reasonably raised, the command came: Enter!

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You points are valid and most are true.

The issue is Sometimes, you are so beat down, frustrated, depressed, discouraged.......name it, and the only option is just to surrender to laughter.
Laughter that doesn't deny the existence of the bad situation on ground.
Laughter that only reminds you of the fact that you are still breathing and that's all that matters.
Laughter that signifies that fact that you can't change the situation on ground but at least you are better off than the dead.

Over time, this Laughter became part of the Nigerian culture and I'm afraid Culture is hard to exterminate

Waspy:
You points are valid and most are true.

The issue is Sometimes, you are so beat down, frustrated, depressed, discouraged.......name it, and the only option is just to surrender to laughter.
Laughter that doesn't deny the existence of the bad situation on ground.
Laughter that only reminds you of the fact that you are still breathing and that's all that matters.
Laughter that signifies that fact that you can't change the situation on ground but at least you are better off than the dead.

Over time, this Laughter became part of the Nigerian culture and I'm afraid Culture is hard to exterminate

Very hard to exterminate but the truth is, we can change that culture. When we make Jokes with Rape and hate we are complicating our situation. Everything manifesting in the material world first builds on the immaterial. With such jokes we are making a fashionable blueprint for more mentally unstable people.

We can change the situation on ground. You know, when you repetitively do a thing, a mental pattern is registered in our brain. It is not that we can't change the status quo but that, on the psyche level, we have been programmed to think that we can't do anything about them. We need to start building positive repetitive words in the minds of Nigerians.

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