₦airaland Forum

There are black people in ND ??

ezeagu:
Shows how much you know. Haitians are descended primarily from the country Benin and the Fon people of who made up Dahomey, not the Idu (Edo) nation.

Ok, whatever- I have no time to verify that so i would agree with you.

^ LOL

Mine is

Ultra liberal Communist

First class is CGPA: >4.5

Magna Cumlaude is equal to a first class

Katsumoto:
Regardless of how you define both terms, there is nothing wrong in being proud of one's tribe or race. The problem starts when certain individuals feel that they need to put other tribes down so as to elevate theirs. Each tribe has its own culture, advantages, disadvantages, etc.

Yeah i think ethnic superiority is the problem. But also nepotism. I have a problem with ethnic nepotism in which people favor others based on their ethnic group.

@EzeUche

By the way count how many times on NL I have displayed any pride of my pseudo ethnic origin. Now count how many of your previous posts have shown ethnic pride. You are ethnocentric. Most of what you say is my Igbo brother and the yorubas "Them vs. Us"

Something i don't do, I just keep the flame alive

chiogo:
I agree.

Who asked u to agree? Please observe an compute your activity on these threads and u too wuld understand that controversy sells

EzeUche:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ethnocentrism

This is where I got the definition. That is why I said there is no difference between tribalism and ethnocentrism. Both words represent people who think of themselves as better than other groups.




I will call a spade a spade. You are just as tribalistic/ethnocentric as the people you battle daily on these threads.

No mugun, you are calling a shovel a spade

Please one ethnocentric thread I have started. Do you want me to quote previous posts of yours that do exactly the same thing I am doing? People cause trouble then they start screaming saint obi

I am what I am and I usually am aware of my intentions

I only see Igbo names on that list of yours. Now your list is very tribalistic. There are plenty of Yoruba tribalist who roam these threads as well. Angry

SEFAGO likes to flame the tribalist flame.

I think I bring humor to it. Totally two different things I must say. Please dont be throwing my username around

Well applaud your luck nau- you are going to marry a good looking an from your supposition

micktosin:
@ SELFAGO

QS RANKING, TIMES RANKING, GUARDIAN RANKING, can't all be lying. What rankings have you got man, is it ajegunle times or mushin times. Oh i get it Nigerian University is the best in the world.

Did u do ur undergrad at Imperial? Just curious because I saw Meng and I thot Meng was a graduate degree, but i dont knw much abt the UK.

However, I have a classmate from high school in Nigeria who went to imperial college london. He isnt the brightest bulb in the bunch and I am definitely sure he would not have made first class in Nigeria. He is just lucky he could afford the school.

No I dont think Nigerian Universities are good, I just think some of their products are really good. But you can find that anywhere in the world- talent is not the exclusive property of any school.

biina:
So the question is the class of your degree (which is in turn a measure of your grades) should reflect what
- your ability relative to your peers (i.e. on a national scale)?
- your ability relative to your classmates in the school?
- or your ability relative to a standard (set by the school)?

None of these can be said to be inherently superior to the others, but the tuning of a system to accurately measure one, makes it incapable of measuring the others. Most school try to achieve a composite metric.

To talk of grade inflation, implicitly assumes that there is a standard grade allocation scheme (but there is none). Until we have the latter, you cannot claim existence of the former.

While any schools might have a bias in students graduating with a particular class of degree, it is up to employers to interpret those degrees in context e.g. are those students with equivalent of 2.1 honors from top schools more deserving than those of lesser schools?

- your ability relative to your classmates in the school?

This should be the grading scale for any school. Class of a degree should be based on a preset curve. First class for the top 10%, second class division for top 70% and 20% would be third class. I think this should be uniform across board. Then the reputation of a school would further the weight and it would be left to the intuition of an employer to decide which grade from which school is better.

micktosin:
1 of the main reason why 1st and 2:1 is higher in western world, is simply down to home work/ Lab practical which makes up 30% of the total mark, but 1st isn't inflated as people think it is, you need to work your backside off to get it.

http://extras.timesonline.co.uk/tol_gug/gooduniversityguide.php

Those british rankings are rubbish

biina:
There is really no such thing as 'grade inflation', else there would be a standard grading.

There is grade inflation most especially at top schools in the US. They usually give the excuse that they have super-smart students but still a school where 30-45% of the graduating class leave with equivalents of second class upper and higher is disturbing. UK too has a bit of grade inflation, but the one in America is way of the charts.

biina:
I think the difficulty in getting a first class in faulties like law, humanities, Arts etc migfht be dues to
- the subjective nature of evaluation, as unlike in enginerring and science where the solution is often exact
- a bias in the quality of intake, as the more brilliant students are often guided into science classes at the secondary school level
- historical references i.e. there has never been a first class in this department

I agree with this aspect and its very disturbing.

Magna cumlaude is considered equivalent to a first class at top schools and this is usually given to like 15%-20%. Summa Cumlaude is given to 2-5% of the graduating class but its like a super first class technically.

If people who create tribalism threads are policed, I think things would be better. I wuldnt name names but y'all know the ogas

jice:
@ SAFEGO
you are as close to judgement as you to mercy. you have only two options. Good times in whichsoever you chose

Abeg I done hear. Let me be- shebi I am the one being judged, why u dey vex? All this moral indignation for nothin. Face the debate- who told you God is against homosexuality? How did it come to this world? The devil ?

jice:
@ SEFAGO

If God doesn’t exist in your life you are of all people the most miserable.
Mind your utterances towards the Supreme Being because judgement is knock at your door and destruction awaits anyone who denies God on earth and beyond. Be careful

Hmm, believe what you want. I believe service to your fellow man transcends religion. When judgement comes I will deal with it. I will not only deny God on that day, I will slap him for his wickedness  Go and sleep little man

Beyond moralities, we are talking Godliness which no society can throw away and still remain relevance. Righteousness exalts a nation, But sin is a disgrace to any people. Though we may allow them exist with us as it has been before the known religions started, any attempt to legalize it will spell doom for us.
Don’t ask me about the American states that have legalized it because God is slow to anger but he will never acquit the wicked.
This may be the American nemesis.

U have brought religion into this. How do you know what God thinks? (if he actually exists)

Godliness ko, manliness ni