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FrankNetter's immigrant life thread is a milllion times better than this. He shows everday life, his hard work and accomplishments with a really cool, funny and witty style. He is a good role model and promotes good values like hard work, ambitions to make a good career, understanding how America developed like this.

This guy here is promoting empty consumerism, creating nothing and just bragging about consuming empty material things.
A very bad role model for Nigerian youth and sending a bad message.

You people are better off following FrankNetter and reading his diary. Way better and more productive than this rich wannabe party boy business.

Scholarsticchai:
Yes I don't know how to swim.. I don't go beyond the shallow part. I know why I decided to try the deep part this very day .According to my bro he told me he noticed I was no where to be found again and I'm also inside the pool that's when he noticed the I'm already drowning.. Thank God he was there ��

But you first learn to swim in shallow parts. That's how we learned as children. you don't go where there water is higher than your height, before you learn to swim.

She is Ethiopian, her name is Meron Benti.
She has a rather sad story but with a happy ending:
https://medium.com/@MiddleburyMag/through-the-looking-glass-79cbd975fd02

I thought she was an albino European at first until I read the interview.

cutieme:
revontuli can I chat u up privately?

ok!

The song is so lovely and the kids are so cute and innocent. Too bad their homeland is under grave threat cause of the global warming and rising sea levels.
Their villages are being destroyed by floods, the islands are disappearing. 6 uninhabited islands sank already.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/10/five-pacific-islands-lost-rising-seas-climate-change

Germans...
They did this as a publicity stunt and it's still getting attention years later.
Brilliant publicity stunt.

QueenSuccubus:
Is she an albino? I juz noticed that super blonde hair she has.but since she's having a makeup , it's really hard to tell..

An albino, yes, but from where?

Let's see if Nairalanders can guess, since I totally failed.

P.S. If anyone knows, please don't spoil!

Scholarsticchai:
If not for my brother I will be refer to as LATE right now .. I'll never swim again in my life .. The experience is horrible I've been there b4

What happened? You don't know how to swim and almost drowned?

I am not sure if Upsetgirl is trolling or being serious here.
I live in a country where GDP per capita is 18 times higher than Nigeria. Cars are considered a luxury and many people never buy a car for their entire life. Half of my colleagues, which are men well over 30, with very high income, do not own cars and not planning to buy anytime soon.

Know what, the developed world is now moving away from cars. New generation hates driving and carrying the responsibility and financial burden of car ownership. Ride sharing companies like Uber and Lyft are popular for a reason.
German cities offer highly computerized on-demand rental cars all over the place. Nice, fancy sport cars you can rent with an app, pick up from the designated spots and drop at the designated parking places when you are done. Young professionals use these instead of wasting money on buying cars. On-demand shuttles and self-driving leased cars are going to replace car ownership in Europe within 10 years.

Lagos traffic is already worse than hell from what I gather, you ladies forcing your men to add more to it will bring it to the point where people will spend half of their lives sitting in traffic.

otipoju:
Na Nigeria na him car be like big thing for woman eye.

Go outside your country, you go see say car be like phone...na normal thing for every adult even 18 year old to have a car. Inspite of this, a humans being's worth is not tied to ownership of a car.

It's people like you that make boys become desperate and resort to fraud, rituals and armed robbery so as to be accepted by society.

The truth of the matter is that the socio-economic climate of Nigeria is very frustrating for the honest and hardworking individual.

I left Lagos in 2014 May at 32 years, and bought my first car ever from my savings from just 3 months of working while still paying my bills. I have bought and used four different cars since then.

Whoa, four cars since 2014? Damn bro you change cars like jackets sha!
I bought my first car in year 2000, drove it to the ground, bought my second car in 2010 and still driving it. I will get a new car only when this one dies. Both I bought second hand.

Nigerian men and women are not lazy, they simply lack the amenities and opportunities to live a basic and normal life.

This is very unfortunate and caused by the horrible, good for nothing corrupt politicians.
Only the technical know-how you guys studying and working abroad you bring home will be able to fix it. There is a subset of gold digger women who don't want to hustle and make their money but leech off the men instead, these ladies are setting a bad example to young women with their bad propaganda. I hope this doesn't become a widespread mentality, this kind of thinking will only lead to disaster, imagining lazy gold diggers raising the future generation.

You guys are shaming the bleacher ladies all the time, here is the opposite of the bleachers for you.

Watch this video and see how a white European woman became black by injecting chemicals:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1yWH6QSP4k

She should take selfies with Roman goddess

Hirad:
I'll reply back to you in segments since you took your time with this reply.



First of all, the argument is not about racial or genetic purity. It's the blatant lie that Somalis are Arabized or bastardised Arabs. That was my issue with the person you're quoting. We already know of our mixture, but despite trading with the rest of the world for millennia, we barely mixed with outsiders as it is evident from our DNA results. The most thorough DNA test for Horn Africans like myself is 23andme which I have taken. It states that I am 98% East African and by East African, it alludes to people from the Horn mainly who all pretty much share the same haplotype which is E1b1b. Our admixture as I've stated above comes from thousands of years before when there weren't such thing as a Somali ethnicity, when we were just grouped with other Cushitic speakers.

Our Admixture and migration only confirms that we are more purer compared to our neighbouring Nilotic and Bantu tribes as they are much more mixed than us.

The lady you are talking about is from a distinct Somali ethnicity called Banadiri - a lot of them are Somalized Arabs. So it's not a shocker to see her get 5% South Asian and what not. The average Somali person gets no more than 0.5%-1% Arab or European.



Although, Somali trolls do go overboard with the insults, but I reckon it is just a retaliation to West Africans telling them they're bastardised Arabs, not really black and make fun of their features which is surprisingly not seen as anti-black due to West and southern Africans seemingly taking ownership of the African look, as if everyone in Africa is meant to resemble them.

Most Somalis are 1st and 2nd generation refugees from a war-torn country, they will naturally underperform until they reach 2nd and 3rd generation. Such is the integration patterns with refugee groups around the world. Resettling refugees into a foreign land and expecting them to become world-beaters isn't realistic. Also, Somalis are in no way comparable to West Africans. The former is 20 million with only 1 million of those based outside of the Horn, while the latter numbers over 300 million.

But let me address your points:

"Somalis don't have intellectuals and world-renowned people"

Sir Mohamed Farah - A refugee who came to the UK as a 12 year-old. Name a west African equivalent to Mo Farah?
AbdulQawi Yusuf - incumbent president of the International Courts Justice.
Nuruddin Farah - Multi-award winning author and Nobel prize nominee for his outstanding novels.
Rageh Omaar - World famous reporter and award-winning TV presenter who worked for the BBC and Al-Jazeera.
Ahmed Hussen - Canadian minister of immigration. Holds this office despite being born in Somalia.
Ilhan Omar - First Somali-American state lawmaker and despite also being born in Somalia.
Iman Abdulmajid - Model, actress, philanthropist and businesswoman, also born in Somalia.

So much for they don't produce famous people and I'm typing this from the top of my sleepy head and I haven't even mentioned the younger generation which are all on the come up.

Ayan Hirsi one of the last Somali people I'd want to claim. She literally made money from lying about her culture, ex-husband, parents and religion. In the end she was booted out of the Dutch parliament after an embarrassing scandal. The US media completely hide this from the public whilst parading her around as a voice against Islam. They'll spit her out once they're done with her, just like the Dutch before them.

"Khat" - this is a drug used throughout the horn of Africa and some parts of Arabia. Yemenis are an even bigger Khat-consuming nation.
"FGM is exclusive to Somalis" - False FGM is practised among your West African people too, it is practised both north and west of Nigeria, all the way to the Senegambia region. This ancient practice is outlawed in Somalia, but may still be practised in the rural regions of East Africa where Somalis are not the only ones doing it.
"Polygamy" - You must be extremely ignorant to think that Somalis are the only Africans to practise polygamy. Almost all of Sub Saharan Africa does this, even the fully Christian nations in southern Africa.
"Somali cuisine is not known" - If where you're from has a huge Somali population, specifically London, Minnesota, Seattle, Ohio or Toronto, then you're deliberately ignoring Somali restaurants. One of the restaurants in Minneapolis even has the mayor visiting on a regular basis and has been awarded and mentioned on Minnesota state channels multiple times - look up Afro Deli.

Fair enough. I was answering the trollish guy's racist rhetoric, since I read some of the history of this forum and noticed the racist trolling is a repeating pattern. Ayaan Hirsi Ali has a lot of fans in the Western atheist and feminist scene, also Arab atheist scene. If the Americans don't want her anymore, Arab atheists will welcome her with open arms, she has a lot of fans.

I don't know much about the Somali diaspora in the States, other than the family unification scams I saw in the media. I googled the Somali restaurants in Minnesota, that is impressive. Looks like the entrepreneurial types went to the States.

Miss pretend-European, it's not rocket science to see that you're an angry West African. It's intriguing how you know about khat and FGM, but don't know even more simpler things.

LMAO how do you know I'm a West African? I could be a half Nigerian-half Swedish American, or a Russian orphan adopted by Nigerian-American parents (which would technically make me a Euro-American!), or a German with West African stepmother and half siblings.

Alas, I totally agree with you though, the trolls are damaging our already bad image and if you read through this thread you will have seen that the original poster has already been called out for his stupidity. That is probably why he's not posting anymore.

To preserve the civil discussion we're having on this thread, I won't give a reply to the rest of your post. I don't want to get sucked into silly arguments like that, they only lead to insults and pettiness.

Thanks for keeping it civil and mature, you have erased the bad image created by the Somali hate speech trolls and improved the Nigerian-Somalian relations by being a classy gentleman.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China said it will begin applying its so-called social credit system to flights and trains and stop people who have committed misdeeds from taking such transport for up to a year.

People who would be put on the restricted lists included those found to have committed acts like spreading false information about terrorism and causing trouble on flights, as well as those who used expired tickets or smoked on trains, according to two statements issued on the National Development and Reform Commission’s website on Friday.

Those found to have committed financial wrongdoings, such as employers who failed to pay social insurance or people who have failed to pay fines, would also face these restrictions, said the statements which were dated March 2.



Read more here: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-credit/china-to-bar-people-with-bad-social-credit-from-planes-trains-idUSKCN1GS10S

FrankNetter:
The CNA job is the "starter" pack for nigerians that enter USA. I have relatives who had been telling me I was wasting my time at Burger king, only when I got my first CNA job pay check did I understand what they meant. With my first paycheck, I put my car in order. I got new tires $400 with the option of replacing them if anything goes bad (at a place called discount tire co) and a new car battery $150 (At a place called autozone) and I was left with some change, I then handled some bills around the house.

Discount Tire and Auto Zone were my lifesavers in America.
Make sure to get the loyalty card from both of them, it's free and comes with some benefits. Get the free customer loyalty cards from every store you shop at, some of them give you freebies and discounts as you build up the bonus points.

FrankNetter:
At burger king, the issue I had when I started the job was communication. At this job, drama. Lemme explain.


If you notice, if you've paid close attention to my posts, I always tried to pick people's brains, to understand what makes them tick, to understand the mindset of the people I'd be working with, the mindset of Americans. In trying to do that, I try to strike up conversations with different people, dancing around different topics trying to get you to speak. In the first few weeks I started this job, I noticed this is a female dominated field and most of the persons whose brains I tried to pick were ladies. In no time, news had started flying around that the new guy is a flirt, he's always talking to everybody. It turns out these ladies mistook my questions and conversations for something else, they actually thought I was trying to hook up with them.

Each day I come to work, I'd hear one new gist about me and what I supposedly did. I wouldn't bore you guys with the sad tales of how these people think cos most of them are way too shallow to delve into deep conversations with. They are more content with running their mouths about celebrity news and who-is-fvcking-who at the job. The few times I've tried to bring politics or current affairs or something other than tv shows and drama and superficial stuff, I get a blank stare or something close to it. With time, I minimized my conversations to strictly work related stuff and started keeping to myself. My "brain-picking" project has been put on hold for now.

Workplaces where they require diplomas or specialized skills are not like this. When you get your degree and move up in career you will mingle with better crowd. If you work a white collar job, you can talk about world politics, economy, history, culture, whatever you want. The problem is, you tried to pick brains where there are no brains to begin with Well if you want to know about Americans, feel free to ask me since I'm American and a good observer of people.

FrankNetter:
I've also opened a new Twitter account guys. Abeg follow me

@obinetter is the handle both for instagram and Twitter

Your thread is awesome and a lot of fun to read. I think it would make a great blog. But write more stories! The stories are awesome.

I hope this corrupt thief gets locked up for this. If he has enough connections, he will probably get away with it. Remains to be seen.

Watch this video to see the kids singing a song in their native language:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo_0CB94zDo

I don't condone the violent behavior, but if you sow wind you harvest a hurricane.
Dishonesty, lying and cheating comes with such risks.
No sympathy for the guy, I hope he learned his lesson and he will be honest to his future partners and only date the women who agree with that kind of relationships.

Blonde Melanesians are also found in Vanatu.
Children have big lovely smiles.

Solomon Islands natives have the darkest skin tone outside of Africa and some of their population has the lightest hair color outside of Europe. Their pigmentation level is measured to be the same as Yoruba people.
Their striking blonde hair has been a mystery to the scientists for years, since it is known they never mixed with Europeans and a mixed race population wouldn't have the dark skin tone and such a high prevelance of blondism. Geneticists have identified the mutation causing the blonde hair in those people in 2012, which is completely distinct from the European blonde hair mutation.


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The common occurrence of blond hair among the dark-skinned indigenous people of the Solomon Islands is due to a homegrown genetic variant distinct from the gene that leads to blond hair in Europeans, according to a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine.

“This is one of the most beautiful examples to date of the mapping of a simple genetic trait in humans,” said David Reich, PhD, a professor of genetics at Harvard University, who was not involved in the study.

The study identifying the gene responsible for blond hair in the Solomon Islands, a nation in the South Pacific, represents a rare case of simple genetics determining human appearance, and shows the importance of including understudied populations in gene mapping studies, said co-senior author Carlos D. Bustamante, PhD, professor of genetics at Stanford. The findings were published May 4 in Science.

“Since most studies in human genetics only include participants of European descent, we may be getting a very biased view of which genes and mutations influence the traits we investigate. Here, we sought to test whether one of the most striking human traits, blond hair, had the same — or different — genetic underpinning in different human populations,” Bustamante said.

Globally, blond hair is rare, occurring with substantial frequency only in northern Europe and in Oceania, which includes the Solomon Islands and its neighbors. “Its frequency is between 5 and 10 percent across the Solomon Islands, which is about the same as where I’m from,” said co-first author Eimear Kenny, PhD, who was born in Ireland.

Many assumed the blond hair of Melanesia was the result of gene flow — a trait passed on by European explorers, traders and others who visited in the preceding centuries. The islanders themselves give several possible explanations for its presence, said co-senior author Sean Myles, PhD, a former Stanford postdoctoral scholar who is now an assistant professor at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. They generally chalked it up to sun exposure, or a diet rich in fish, he said.

After researchers at UCSF generated genetic data from the samples, Kenny, a postdoctoral scholar in Bustamante’s lab, began the analysis in September 2010, the week she started at Stanford. “Within a week we had our initial result. It was such a striking signal pointing to a single gene — a result you could hang your hat on. That rarely happens in science,” she said. “It was one of the best experiences of my career.”

In terms of genetic studies, the analysis was straightforward, said Kenny. But gathering the data, accomplished in 2009 by Myles and co-first author Nicholas Timpson, PhD, was more difficult. Much of the Solomon Islands is undeveloped, without roads, electricity or telephones. It’s also one of the most linguistically diverse nations in the world, with dozens of languages spoken.

It was a return trip for Myles who had been there in 2004 as a graduate student with Max Planck Institute molecular anthropologist Mark Stoneking, PhD, (also a co-author of the study) to investigate whether the language variations correlated with genetic variations. While there, Myles was fascinated by the ubiquity of blond hair, which was especially common among children.

“They have this very dark skin and bright blond hair. It was mind-blowing,” said Myles. “As a geneticist on the beach watching the kids playing, you count up the frequency of kids with blond hair, and say, ‘Wow, it’s 5 to 10 percent.’”

A grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research gave Myles, who at that time was doing a stint as a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University, his chance to study the genetics of the Solomon Islanders’ hair color. Myles worked with Bustamante, who was also at Cornell, to design the study. Then back in the islands, Myles and Timpson went village to village explaining what they wanted to do and asking for permission to gather data, Myles speaking in Solomon Islands pidgin, the most widely understood language.

When the local chief gave the OK, the researchers recruited participants and assessed hair and skin color using a light reflectance meter, took blood pressure readings and measured heights and weights. They asked the villagers to spit into small tubes to provide saliva to be used for DNA extraction. In the span of a month they collected more than 1,000 samples.

While the islands fit many people’s notion of a tropical paradise, they lack amenities Westerners take for granted. For instance, simply finding a level spot for the scale to weigh study participants was a challenge.

Then in 2010 Bustamante joined Stanford’s faculty and, with funding from the Department of Genetics, the team looked for genes underlying this striking phenotype. Soon after, Kenny joined the lab and started the analysis, selecting 43 blond- and 42 dark-haired Solomon Islanders from the opposite 10 percent extremes of the hair pigmentation range. She used these in a genome-wide association study, a method to reveal differences in the frequency of genetic variants between two groups, that usually requires thousands of samples.

Because the vast majority of human physical characteristics analyzed to date have many genetic and environmental factors, Kenny expected an inconclusive result that would require much further study. Instead, she immediately saw a single strong signal on chromosome 9, which accounted for 50 percent of the variance in the Solomon Islanders’ hair color.

The team went on to identify the gene responsible, TYRP1, which encodes tyrosinase-related protein 1, an enzyme previously recognized as influencing pigmentation in mice and humans. Further research revealed that the particular variant responsible for blond hair in the Solomon Islands is absent in the genomes of Europeans.

“So the human characteristic of blond hair arose independently in equatorial Oceania. That’s quite unexpected and fascinating,” Kenny said.

The finding underscores the importance of genetic studies on isolated populations, said Bustamante. “If we’re going to be designing the next generation of medical treatments using genetic information and we don’t have a really broad spectrum of populations included, you could disproportionately benefit some populations and harm others.”

Bustamante is seeking funding to analyze the rest of the data gathered. “For instance, the genetics of skin pigmentation might be different there too — not the same as in Europe or Africa or India. We just don’t know.”

Source: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2012/05/naturally-blond-hair-in-solomon-islanders-rooted-in-native-gene-study-finds.html

Why does he need to show it off? Scandinavians never show off their state cars. You have to search Google to find what they drive.

I'm watching Black Mirror!

Zoharariel:
You must be a brain-dead buffon

It's spelled buffoon.

to believe the UK narrative that Russia did it - with that your [b]burnt albino [/b]face & rotten teeth.

Burnt or albino? Pick one. What does what I look like have to do with anything? How do you even know what I really look like LMAO. I could be Chinese, or Pakistani, anyone can be anything on the internet yo.

So much anger! Forgot to take your xanax?

3 fvcking times, the West accused Bashir Al-Assad of Syria of using chlorine gas to killing his people. But was it true? Turns out Amerikan CIA/MOSAD/MI5 in collaboration with their liver-eating terrorists in Syria concocted this bullshiiit - looking for a justification to invade Syria officially like they did in Iraq & Libya.

What about the claim of George w. Bush & Tony Blair accusing Saddam of possessing WMDs? Was it true?

And what about the West's claim of Russia downing the Malaysian MH-17 over the Ukrainian airspace? Was it true?

None of these are relevant to this event. Why are you so triggered?

War is imminent - because the AngloZionists bastards know it's the only way to salvage Amerika's dwindling economy - but death awaits them from the barrels of Mother Russia's nuclear launchers!

Which will poison the entire planet and in the end, kill them too.
Are you even African, lad?
Russian trolls are now invading Nigerian forums or what?

Zoharariel:
You must be a brain-dead buffon

It's spelled buffoon

to believe the UK narrative that Russia did it - with that your [b]burnt albino [/b]face & rotten teeth.

[/quote]Burnt or albino? Pick one.
Nice personal attack on a random stranger. So much anger! Forgot to take your xanax?

3 fvcking times, the West accused Bashir Al-Assad of Syria of using chlorine gas to killing his people. But was it true? Turns out Amerikan CIA/MOSAD/MI5 in collaboration with their liver-eating terrorists in Syria concocted this bullshiiit - looking for a justification to invade Syria officially like they did in Iraq & Libya.

What about the claim of George w. Bush & Tony Blair accusing Saddam of possessing WMDs? Was it true?

And what about the West's claim of Russia downing the Malaysian MH-17 over the Ukrainian airspace? Was it true?

None of these are relevant to this event.

War is imminent - because the AngloZionists bastards know it's the only way to salvage Amerika's dwindling economy - but death awaits them from the barrels of Mother Russia's nuclear launchers!

Which will poison the entire planet and in the end, kill them too.
Are you even African, lad?
Russian trolls are now invading Nigerian forums or what?

Blackfyre:
Oh I see. Didn't say he was, said he looked albino to me.

That's just a normal white guy. Albinos of the white race look a few shades paler than that. See the photo, that's a white albino.

gwama:
I do not know this woman, she is white or albino?? Some one help me

She's definitely not white. She looks like an African albino who dyed her hair. Zooming the photo,light hair is growing at the roots.

armyjassy101:
Their skull might have been mined already

Why don't they take the skulls from the graveyard? Are they doing human sacrifice?

simonlee:
They are Marine spirits who take the form of beautiful girls to entice men and steal their destiny

Wow, I didn't know they were also in African culture. Ancient Greeks had sirens and water nymphs, Slavs have the Rusalka, they are the exact same thing.

simonlee:
After escaping nigeria and all our mami water girls... oyinbo marine spirits still claim this fine boy. If i near water again ehn...

What are mami water girls?

Religious fanatics are so backward and savage...