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kapelvej:
, I am married already, did you not see my other post were my wife and mother in law are dealing with me like a small boy. https://www.nairaland.com/4375441/mother-in-law-wife-undermine-me

Ok then you get a divorce and marry the albino lady. Maybe you will have better luck and have a nicer mother in law this time!

Helsinki 1908

Venice, Italy in the 19th century

People boating in early 1900's Constantinople (Istanbul)

Helsinki in the late 19th century. People wore funny clothes back then.

Hamburg, Germany 1901

Barefooot boys at Hietalahti harbour, 1908. This place looks the exact same today, only the children don't go barefoot anymore.

Helsinki in the late 19th century featuring dirt road and horse carts.

Martin0:
abeg u go need to learn our pidgin o

I can understand most of the written Pidgin, if there are words I don't know I look it up from wiktionary. No wahala!

casualobserver1:
My people over there have said that things are definitely hotter in the States for now. It isn't everyday that once comes across foreigners here on Nairaland. Do you mind telling me why you joined this site? I am just curious.

I stumbled across here when Googling something (forgot what I was even searching) and the interesting topics on the main page got me read like an addict. Reasons I loved Nairaland and stayed here:

- People's humorous attitude and funny comments, also the interesting Nigerian perspective about local and world affairs.
- I see the news about Africa we never get to see in the Western media. We see only negative news and violence, peple post all kinds of positive news here.
- Culture threads are hella interesting, it's refreshing to learn about all those fascinating rich cultures and traditions.
- Fights never escalate to ugliness I see on facebook and western forums. Even if people fight, it gets resolved quickly, mods never have to lock threads.
- You people don't ban the trolls, you just turn them into some kind of resident joke. No one takes the trolls serious and just make them into funny fools. Something white people never learned.
- The banter between feminists and macho men is hilarious
- I am writing an epic fantasy series, and the tribal conflict stuff is a huge source of inspiration for me. I have only academic knowledge on tribal cultures, it's priceless to see the living tribal culture with real people writing comments, the complex structure and political issues will inspire stories.
- There are so many nice and positive people here!

It's funny how the definition of black varies from one place to another.
In America, when they had the despicable racist segregation era and Jim Crow laws, there was this "one drop rule" where you were considered black if you had one drop of black blood. Even if you were mostly white with 1/8 black ancestry, you were considered black. This is still the case, people who hardly look African identify as black (lok at Halle Berry for example.) But mixed race people are classified as colored in South Africa. My West African friends called them half-cast. Somalis and Ethiopians are distinct ethnicities, educated non-Africans know the Horn people are separate ethnicities from subsaharan Africans. Learned non-black people also know Khoisan people of South Africa aren't exactly black, either, but a separate race.

Just like the Asians: Chinese, Japanese, Koreans are different from Southeast Asians like Thai, Filipino, Laotian etc. They are all called "Asian" but separate ethnicities. Mongolian is nothing like Japanese so one has to be ignorant to see the Somalis and Ethipioans the same as black African.
An albino Ethiopian can't be distinguished from albino Europeans.

When you learn enough, you see the black Africans have different ethnicities and phenotypes. Fulani people look different from the other blacks, they look nothing like the typical subsaharan Africans we see around. I think westerners also know south Sudanese people are different from the other black Africans, with their extreme melanin and extraordinary tall physique.

Nigeriadondie1:
Bros leave all that. I am a Nigerian who has been living in d scandinavia for over 4 yrs. I have been to all the scandinavian countries except Faroe Island, Greenland and Iceland but I can authoritatively tell u that Greenland is far better. This isssue of suicide is more of societal issue not attributable to failure of governance. Google it standard of living in Greenland is many times better than life in Nigeria.

Greenland is a frozen desert wasteland where sun doesn't rise for months.

The suicides are happening cause the native Greenlanders (who are related to the Inuit) are treated like garbage, their culture and way of life destroyed by the commercial fishing industry and their rural settlements are left to their own devices with no healthcare, transportation and education services. They can't get mental care cause there are no psychiatrists who speak their language. Their youth suicide epidemic is the same kind plaguing the Native American Lakota tribes in the USA.

kcjazzy:
that's not true, fulani mix with other tribes and can look dark too but if you are familiar with Fulani you will know they are different

I'm doing some research on the Fulani, a lot of them display North African features, caucasian nose and forehead. Some of them resemble Tuaregs.

malware:
Most Nigerian Beauty Queens are from certain ethnic group... Always forming beautiful with their Yam Legs

What ethnic group is it?

casualobserver1:
You said when you were in America you relied on those businesses. Are you no longer in the US?

I left for Europe. Glad I'm not living in the horribly polarized society now, things got bad since Trump's election.

winj3:
Simple answer, CRIMINAL DNA!
They are the face of Nigerian passport because of their global presence so any drug dealing, 419, fake goods dealing and other crimes they commit affects other Nigerians. They are the worst tribe from Africa!

Why do you people hating on the Igbos all the time, Nnedi Okarofor is also Igbo, she won a Hugo award and gave a good name to the Nigerians. Besides the people in foreign countries only see Nigerian or African, they have no idea about tribes.

cve90:
Pls o, I have two questions..1. I have not seen an old albino all my life 2. I have not seen an albino obituary before

Many probably die young cause of skin cancer. Unless they have the money to afford lifetime supply of sunblock.

oxygenlove:
Then Your Offspring Will Nw Become Fulani Herdsmen

LMAO
Power of Nairaland: I'm a white foreigner from Finland, never been to Nigeria and knew next to nothing about Nigeria before I discovered Nairaland and I'm laughing at this remark after spending a few days of surfing here.

If you marry an urban Fulani lady, your offspring won't be herdsmen. Find one from Lagos!

Lizards are harmless, they won't attract snakes. Rats and mice attract snakes.
Lizards eat pests like mosquitoes.
It's a bad idea to feed the pigeons, you feed them at city squares and parks, nowhere near home. They will shit everywhere!
Mongoose kill and eat the snakes. Indians were feeding them in their garden to get rid of the cobras. I don't know if the African mongoose are good at killing snakes, you gotta research info about them.

khiaa:
I'm not Irish.

Everybody is Irish on Saint Patty's day!

walemoney007:
Their life still better pass Nigerians wey get house

It's really bad. They get AIDS, flesh eating bacteria, gangrenes and die from diseases if not from drug overdose. Mentally ill women get raped all the time. If there is a heat wave, they die from heat exhaustion.

Becoming the side chick of rich men is a disgrace and an extreme lack of self respect.
Watch the video and cringe:



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

hidhrhis:
very well

There is no evidence about albinos being persecuted/butchered in Nigeria. There are interviews with Nigerian albinos complaining about discrimination, but no violence whatsoever.

Nigeriadondie1:
Bro I agree with you. Nigeria should become an oversea territory of a developed country and that country should be from any of the scandinavian countries.
There are many countries that are overseas territories of a much bog better country. Puerto Rico is a US territory, Falkland Island a UK territory among others. If we can start that platform u have my support. Infact, my choice is Norway. I would personally hand over a letter to the Prime Minister and Monarch of Norway, Sweden or Denmark that ‘we the people of Nigeria want to be an overseas territory of their country.

Stallion93:
Exactly man, U should be proud of yourself for this, people like u are rare in this Nigeria. God be with u man, please stay alive we need u

I don't know about Sweden and Norway, but you sure as hell don't want Denmark running the show. They have a real bad track record with their overseas territories: Greenland has the highest suicide rate in the world cause Danes royally screwed them over.

See this article: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/04/21/474847921/the-arctic-suicides-its-not-the-dark-that-kills-you

It's very long, but worth a read to learn how the Danes "develop" places.

Exactly that's what feminism is about, freedom to choose your own destiny.

MissWrite:
Lol , SSG! I knew you were going to lure me into long talk.

A woman's social independence from a man doesn't mean she cannot want one. Or that she cannot want to be domestic. Or that she must never accept money from a man. It just means that she's a self-determining entity in society, complete by herself, and free to make choices where an arbitrary man's opinion on the matter is irrelevant. What I mean by that last bit? Choosing to be a teacher or a nurse because men find soldiering or engineering "too hard for a woman"; deciding to buy a hatchback instead of a proper sedan because men would find you "less approachable"; staying in your parents house until you're forty (when you're unmarried) so that men would think you're a good homely girl. So, generally censoring yourself, and refusing to start out your life because you haven't been joined with a man. That's the independence which feminism advocates: you are your own person.

We are not put in boxes of other people's expectations; whether that box be a "traditional housewife" or a "career girl". Feminism allows women value themselves, and give expression to their individual desires. Choice. If as a feminist you feel pressure to become a career woman even when you don't want to be one, then you have not been emancipated. (Please read my article on feminism. To the end)

A woman who has a full understanding of feminism is not going to be pressured by it. It is liberating and makes you (as a woman) the focus of your life. Men shouldn't be intimidated by it either, because a traditional man can still find what he is looking for in the PERSONAL values of a traditional girl. But the notion that feminism tries to kill is that "all women" must fit into this box simply because they're women; and "all men" must fit into that box because they're men. Thereby, it gives every individual (not just women, but men as well) freedom to express themselves beyond the traditional gender roles. Some people cannot handle a world without these boxes because then, whatever inadequacies that have been ascribed to the female gender (or male gender) become your personal inadequacies. So they prefer to hide in those boxes which have all women branded as weak as a curtesy.

Someone once alluded to the fact that Beyonce's feminism was a sham because she's now married and submissive to a husband who has also got the temerity to cheat on her. What I see here is a person who is already so used to telling a woman what to be and how to react to her situations, doing more of the same. Feminism let's YOU BE YOU. The aim is to eradicate oppression. You are referring to Amara. She isn't less feminist for being married. She's done her basic responsibility as a feminist woman by exercising her right to choose for HERSELF and not society. We aren't all going to want the same things; that's the beauty of individualism. Or feminism.

I've rambled on............and I haven't given you the list you requested. But I don't think a long list is even required. The characteristics of a feminist woman: self esteem, self awareness, self love.

hidhrhis:
at least a program was organised for them to show case their talent
come to Nigeria where the head or hair of albino will turn u into a billionaire if u do ritual

I thought that ritual albino butchering only happened in Tanzania? Does it happen in Nigeria too?

Stallion93:
Well it's crystal clear u know just little to nothing about Africa, Now we not @ war per se though some places are but people litterally starve to death in Africa(when we not at war o!) The most impoverished people in the world are Africans the most of them Live in nigeria(Fact Statistics or no Statistics) And please don't travel to any Region just like that in Africa By yourself cos i just noticed you're white, Don't do it. It's not fun condemning my own kind but i have to let go of petty skin pride especially when it involves the next generation, we perhaps don't know how to Live as humans, let us borrow that knowledge from the Whites period! Since The inception of Life, this is 2018 and we are still like this, surely we have issues we can't rectify ourselves

No worries, I know enough, I have been to South Africa 10 years ago. I read about the situation in Nigeria here on this forum, but you paint so bleak a picture with no hope at all. How will anything get fixed if pessimistic mentality takes hold? Nigeria is better off than many African countries. Europe used to be a hell hole before the enlightenment. Half of London died from cholera cause they turned Thames into an open sewer. European cities were once filthy and disease ridden. Religion wars bathed the cities in blood, crop failures and starvation regularly decimated the populace. Europe lifted itself out of this misery with the enlightenment movement and industrial revolution.

One of Africa's problem is the smart, capable, educated youths running away. You have so many well-educated and smart people here and most of them are abroad. If they see no future and run away, who will fix things?

Homeless tent city in Anaheim, California:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04Z3Rd0rD_I

According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, there are more than half a million homeless people in the United States today. That is a large number, for sure. But it actually represents a decrease in the homeless population. Between 2007 and 2017, “overall homelessness decreased 14.4 percent,” the group says.

Out of the 50 states, 30 recorded decreases in homelessness, while 20 saw increases. Among those 20 states is California, where a rise in homelessness was just described by The Los Angeles Times editorial board as a “national disgrace.”

Associated Press photographer Jae C. Hong set out in 2017 to document the plight of people living in Los Angeles’s “Skid Row,” a downtown area with one of the largest homeless populations in the United States. In an AP Images blog, Hong says he was compelled to document life in Skid Row because he was repulsed by it. “Initially, it wasn’t to bring awareness to the plight of the people there or to give voice to the homeless,” he writes. “It was more of a visual curiosity.” Hong goes on to say:

“I dialed 911 four times to get help for people. One was a drug addict passed out in the middle of a street intersection on Skid Row. Another was a naked woman in a tree in Santa Ana talking to herself in Spanish.


“There’s always an internal struggle. As a photographer, I want to capture the moment because my job is to tell the story. As a human, the agony can be too hard to watch. Some don’t know they need help or that help exists.

“I have sympathy for the poor. I don’t judge them now that I’ve seen so many people in dire situations from different circumstances and have heard about their lives. Many times I’ve tried to comfort them with encouraging words.”

What Hong shows us through his lens is a collection of people living raw, destitute lives in a place the Los Angeles Times describes as “a Dickensian dystopia in downtown Los Angeles.” There are many people there — some because of economic reasons and some for mental health reasons. But what is certain is that the sight of so many people without a place to live is a heart-rending one, as you can see through Hong’s images here.


Go to the source for the shocking photos: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2018/03/02/heartbreaking-scenes-of-homelessness-from-a-national-disgrace/?utm_term=.930c3c902e74

Chochovini:
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So Germany is an optimistic country? I prefare Finland.

German work style is merciless, they work you to near death.
Finland is buried and snow and ice 1/3 of the year and you don't see the sun for 2 months in winter.
You will wear sweaters and thick coats most of the year. If you are lucky, summer will be sunny and warm, otherwise 10 degrees and rainy everyday with depressing grey sky.