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khiaa:
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First off I am not a dude, I'm a woman. Next time make yourself clear you just changed the game. Had you posted this information before there wouldn't be this misunderstanding? Carribeans are not African Americans they have different bloodlines than we do. Problem solved. I'm offended because it's not true.

Some of them immigrated to the States and their descendants became African Americans. Some people like Oprah got Chinese admixture from distant ancestors (possibly early Chinese immigrants marrying AA. Quite a few AA youtubers disclosed their 23andme results showing Chinese and Native American ancestry.)
Dude is a gender-neutral thing in modern slang. Everyone is dude lol.

Rich meet only the other rich in their social circles. How many rich people have you ever met in your lifetime, excluding your big bosses?
Where do the rich people ever meet and mingle with not-so-rich? There is a massive class divide even in wealthy countries like the USA and Germany, let alone the poor countries where the wall between the rich and the rest of the society reaches the moon.
The economic Apartheid is real. People like you and I get to see the super rich only from a distance, if at all.

Baaballiyo:
There are quite a number of Fulani here, but most are shy and choosy about what to comment on or respond to, besides the few that talk use to represent us well. And going by how abusive and bigoted some people in this forum tend to be towards Fulani in general we prefer to abide by the saying When impious men bear sway the post of honour becomes a private station.

Someone has to make a Fulani music thread!
There's a ton of info on Hausa culture but not enough on Fulani.

khiaa:
She said that she was living in the states and now she lives in Finland not that she is from Finland. That is my point, she said that her neighbor's husband's mother is half Chinese, what does that have to do with black Americans bloodline?

Dude, I never said anything about ALL black Americans' bloodline. I said some have Chinese and Native American ancestry. Done some research and found out a lot of the Chinese bloodline came from the Caribbean immigration from the Chinese workers there marrying the Afro-Caribbean people. It's a small percentage of people who have any Chinese bloodline. Some people even traced their distant relatives in China and visited them.

There's nothing wrong with a bit of Chinese bloodline anyway, I don't see any reason for getting so offended about that.

I will set up masternodes for 3 different coins and do a write-up on how they perform.
It's a real nice way of creating passive income.

Scientists have identified a chain reaction that explains why our own bodies can turn against healthy cells, potentially transforming the way we look at autoimmune diseases and the way we treat them.

The reaction, discovered in 2017 after four years of research in mice, has been described as a "runaway train" where one error leads the body to develop a very efficient way of attacking itself.

The study focussed on B cells gone rogue. Ordinarily these cells produce antibodies and program the immune cells to attack unwanted antigens (or foreign substances), but scientists found an 'override switch' in mouse B cells that distorted this behaviour and caused autoimmune attacks.

"Once your body's tolerance for its own tissues is lost, the chain reaction is like a runaway train," said one of the team, Michael Carroll from Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School (HMS).

"The immune response against your own body's proteins, or antigens, looks exactly like it's responding to a foreign pathogen."

These B-cells-gone-awry could in turn explain the biological phenomenon known as epitope spreading, where our bodies start to hunt down different antigens that shouldn't be on the immune system's 'kill list'.

Epitope spreading has long been observed in the lab but scientists have been in the dark about how it happens, and why autoimmune diseases evolve over time to target an ever-expanding catalogue of healthy organs and tissues.

In this case the research looked at a mouse model of the lupus autoimmune disease, considered an archetypal or 'classic' type of autoimmune disease that many others are based on.

"Lupus is known as 'the great imitator' because the disease can have so many different clinical presentations resembling other common conditions," said one of the researchers, Søren Degn from Boston Children's Hospital and Aarhus University in Denmark, at the time.

"It's a multi-organ disease with a plethora of potential antigenic targets, tissues affected and 'immune players' involved."


Read more: https://www.sciencealert.com/we-may-have-found-how-autoimmune-diseases-start

PAGAN9JA:
From what I deduced Georgians are Kartevelians and the Svans, Megrelians etc., are their tribes with differences in language.

Those were all ancient tribes, also the dialect of Adjara region is a bit different from the mainstream Georgians, Svan is another dialect, and the Adjara immigrants in Turkey have a more archaic dialect than the Batumi one due to the Soviet era isolation. Laz and Mingrelians are the cousins of Georgians.

PAGAN9JA:
Ah I see. Theres many subgroups of Georgians too right? Do you know yours?

Georgians are a subgroup of Kartvelians, there are quite a few ethnic groups with their own language and culture. Though the Black Sea Laz, Georgians, Greeks and Hamshen (Armenian tribe) share the same music, cuisine and similar traditional attire. It's hard to say who really owns it.

Masternodes are a good source of passive income. Let's talk about masternodes here.
I found a few high ROI new masternode deals with relatively low setup cost. With the crypt prices being so low, most of them are on a big discount. It is possible to set up a decent high ROI one as low as 132k Naira. All of the decent masternode coins have great communities on Discord & telegram where you can get help from the developers and other users if you run into any technical problem.

I will give information here if anyone is interested, but this business requires technical knowledge and experience with Linux systems would be a big advantage.

You people make Lagos sound like hell on earth, but there are some real nice places in Lagos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQqokTvYPFg

tpip:
Please share how you made the buttercream icing. Thanks

Ingredients:

* 1 cup unsalted butter at room temp.
* 3 1/2 cups powdered sugar
* 1/2 cup good quality cocoa powder
* Pinch of table salt
* 1/2 tablespoon vanilla extract
* 1/4 cup whole milk, heavy cream or buttermilk (it's much better with buttermilk)

-Cut the butter in small cubes and whip ir with a mixer or whisk until it becomes pale and fluffy
-Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl and sift twice to get rid of the lumps
-Add the mixed and sifted dry ingredients into the butter slowly, continue whipping
-Add the vanilla extract and heavy cream or buttermilk last, beat until smooth.

This should cover the whole cake and allow some piped decoration. It tastes really good!

khiaa:
How light are you? Do you live in America?

He's a handsome surgeon living in Southern Nigeria. One of the eligible bachelors of Nairaland!

Stallion93:
so what kinda man do we search for you?

I already have a man

Lots of the news from sub-Saharan Africa is about war, famine, poverty or political upheaval. So it's understandable if many Americans think most Africans who immigrate to the United States are poorly educated and desperate.

That's the impression that President Trump left with his comments to members of Congress opposing admission of immigrants from "shithole countries" in Africa and elsewhere.


But research tells another story.

While many are refugees, large numbers are beneficiaries of the "diversity visa program" aimed at boosting immigration from underrepresented nations. And on average, African immigrants are better educated that people born in the U.S. or the immigrant population as a whole.

"It's a population that's very diverse in its educational, economic and English proficiency profile," said Jeanne Batalova, a senior policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute think tank in Washington and coauthor of a report last yearon sub-Saharan African immigrants in the U.S. "People came for a variety of reasons and at various times."

Overall, their numbers are small compared with other immigrant groups but have risen significantly in recent years. The U.S. immigrant population from sub-Saharan Africa (49 countries with a total population of more than 1.1 billion) grew from 723,000 to more than 1.7 million between 2010 and 2015, according to a new report by New American Economy, a Washington-based research and advocacy group. Still, they make up just half a percent of the U.S. population.

Drawing from U.S. surveys and Census Bureau data, the report found that the majority come from five countries: Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia and South Africa.

The Pew Research Center reported that African immigrants are most likely to settle in the South or Northeast, and that the largest numbers — at least 100,000 — are found in Texas, New York, California, Maryland, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Virginia. Many African refugees have also relocated to or have been resettled in states such as Minnesota and South Dakota.

The Refugee Act of 1980 made it easier for people fleeing war zones to resettle in the U.S., and today there are tens of thousand of refugees from Somalia, Sudan and Congo. About 22% of African immigrants are refugees, according to Andrew Lim, associate director of research at New American Economy.

At the same time, the diversity visa program — also known as the visa lottery — has opened the door to immigrants from more peaceful places. Of the sub-Saharan immigrants who have become legal permanent residents, 17% came through the program, compared with 5% of the total U.S. immigrant population, according to Batalova.

Applicants to the program must have completed the equivalent of a U.S. high school education or have at least two years of recent experience in any number of occupations, including accountant, computer support specialist, orthodontist and dancer.

As a result, the influx includes many immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa who are highly skilled professionals.

Batalova's research found that of the 1.4 million who are 25 and older, 41% have a bachelor's degree, compared with 30% of all immigrants and 32% of the U.S.-born population. Of the 19,000 U.S. immigrants from Norway — a country Trump reportedly told lawmakers is a good source of immigrants — 38% have college educations.

The New American Economy study found that 1 in 3 of these undergraduate degrees were focused on science, technology, engineering and math — "training heavily in demand by today's employers."

That report also found that African immigrants were significantly more likely to have graduate degrees. A total of 16% had a master's degree, medical degree, law degree or a doctorate, compared with 11% of the U.S.-born population, Lim said.

African immigrants were more than twice as likely than the U.S. population overall to work in healthcare, Lim said. There are more than 32,500 nursing, psychiatric or home health aides, more than 46,000 registered nurses and more than 15,700 doctors and surgeons.

Source: http://www.latimes.com/world/africa/la-fg-global-african-immigrants-explainer-20180112-story.html

Stallion93:
Me sef like dark skin American girls with their onion booty but I'm a yellow handsome man

We gotta find you an African American beauty then!
They always show the ladies like Beyonce in showbiz, but there are stunning dark-skinned AA ladies you can see in everyday life. If you go to a black Southern Baptist church, you'll see them.

khiaa:
He posted that racist filth and you call me a racist. Dumb azz.

I'm answering your question, not calling you anything.
Do you have basic reading comprehension?
You asked who would post this filth and I answered a deluded racist. Talking about him, not you.

Watch the video to see African American lady taking Yoruba lessons from her Nigerian friend:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr0NHVB4xTQ

khiaa:
Why would you post this lying, filthy trash here?

A deluded racist.

khiaa:
We are not an admixture of the Chinese.

Some people do, not everyone. Depends on where their family lived.
I had African American next door neighbors, the husband's mother was half Chinese. They were from California. You will find Chinese ancestry in many people (black, white, Hispanic) if their ancestors lived in a state with high Chinese population. Oprah Winfrey turned out to have 8% Native American, 3% East Asian and 0% white ancestry:


"Before taking the DNA test, Oprah said she didn’t believe she had any European or Native American ancestors. Her test results showed her to be correct about the European ancestry (she had 0 percent), but wrong about the Native American part (8 percent). She also learned she was 3 percent East Asian."

https://blogs.ancestry.com/cm/the-surprising-facts-oprah-winfrey-learned-about-her-dna/?theme=ancestry-2016

Not all African Americans have light skin, some are quite dark, some are light. A lot of them have white admixture, but also Native American and Chinese, if you remember Oprah Winfrey had the ancestry DNA test and was surprised to find some Chinese ancestry.

https://splinternews.com/if-you-re-black-dna-ancestry-results-can-reveal-an-awk-1793862284

In some states, white Americans have African ancestry: https://www.vox.com/2014/12/22/7431391/guess-where-white-americans-have-the-most-african-ancestry

RIP beautiful angelic soul

missterious:
Family meeting. Lol

That looks delicious

Chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream icing & raspberries

MissRaine69:
It’s mandatory
Don’t see the point in walking around with a very visible outline of your underwear

Hot climate problems
You wear too many layers in cold climate to worry about such things.

WinningSun:
Abeg talk jare. you be hustler

What is jare?

WinningSun:
of what origin are you then.

American oyinbo

pansophist:
I lived in Tornio actually. By bike, it was 5 mins to Haparanda, Sweden. And yes, NL is beautiful. I m always in awe when I bike around the canals at night, as the street lamps illuminate through the canal. After experiencing all these, I got pissed at Nigeria the more, it is all what we could become, but chose not to.

What do you do in the Netherlands?
If all those smart and highly educated Nigerians abroad went into politics in Nigeria, and got elected, a lot of things could change. No need to even look at Europe, look at Rwanda, they are generated $400 million income from tourism. Kigali is safer than Helsinki if you check the crime statistics and surveys. Nigeria has so much great potential, tourism could generate massive income and create loads of jobs.

Ojoro123:
Was in Kemi , Oulu , Tornio and Haparanda( Sweden) The first day I got to Kemi it was so quiet I thought I was in another planet.
It’s a boring depressed place but it’s good for people who want to stick to themselves or introverts.

I've been to Kemi for only one day, it is a tiny little boring town. I haven't been to Tornio yet but planning to go there and cross to Sweden. Those places are great for introverts indeed. Kemi has the ice castle in winter, I should go see it sometime.

pansophist:
Oh, I see the angle you are coming from, and I agree with you. Finland is exactly what The USA could be, and even better since its one of the richest country on the planet. But with its gun laws, healthcare issues, politicians etc, The USA is definitely not for me.

I don't mind the cold in Finland if there are some compensations such as proximity to other countries without necessarily having to fly expensively. I live in the Netherlands also and even if the weather is comparable to Finland (it rains and its windy a lot), I can drive to Belgium in less than an hour, Train to Paris in about two hours, Germany, Luxembourg, just everywhere in Mainland Europe, and flights from here are cheap as hell.

Enjoy Finland

Police brutality is a big issue too. I feared for my life whenever they stopped me in traffic, you never know.
Also being close to all the European cities is great. I visited here first time in 2005 and totally fell in love, spent most of my vacations in Finland until I was able to make the move. Also we get hell of a lot more vacation time.
Never been to the Netherlands, but I have some friends there, I should visit for sightseeing sometime. I hope you are happy there, it's a great hub location if you love traveling.

I came across this youtube channel, where a white lady who has a Nigerian family talks about living in Nigeria and various culture-related things

Some of her videos

WNJ with her Nigerian mother in law:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EhXtSF9hbg

White Girl selling Purewater on Lagos street, Nigeria


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6udcVRBpI9w

9 things I learnt in Nigeria as a white person

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb0WVunuzh4

White Naija Girl meets Oyinbo Princess

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcl8YKNC8Ic

pansophist:
Do you like living in Finland? be honest

As you're an American, I assume that the Finnish lifestyle is an antithesis to what you're used to. It was for me, but it gave me a different perspective about different cultures and quite surprisingly, I prefer such lifestyle. But I will never like cold weather though.

I lived in the hot semi-desert of the south. I was very unhappy with the materialistic consumerist culture, hostile work environments, complete lack of security and safety, exorbitant healthcare costs and other things. There are a few American migrants here, none of them ever want to go back. We are all super happy with the laid back, nature-friendly life here. It's a real paradise for nature and outdoors lovers like me. I can go camping without worrying about my safety. Cold weather isn't too bad if you do winter sports or keep busy doing creative work indoors. A lot of mediterranean people go crazy here, they don't stay too long cause they get bored and depressed.

zinaunreal:
I hope you have found what you seek

I did, a long time ago