₦airaland Forum

hermesprogidy:
It's not Meji. It's Meiji. Emperor Meiji (The Meiji Restoration in the 18th Century) You are making my point. Lol. China's rise to greatness is way beyond wearing suits and trousers. Don't we wear suits and trousers here? China rose to greatness because of two things. Patriotism and competence. They quashed corruption, devalued the Yuan, and maximized their large population which made them an export hub, buy their products, and steal European and American technology. It has zero to do with some useless suit and tie.
On the red carpet thing, at least you agree an African will do that, and that was the premise of this discussion in the first place.

the importance of suit and tie in this discussion is because of how this man was dressed....as a tribute to some 'cultural heritage'. I denounced that cultural heritage nonsense by pointing to how the ever proud East Asians left many of their cultural heritage behind (including their dress) in favour of western/global styles. Of cause simply dressing in suit and tie is not all that is needed to develop...but it shows a willingness to shift from old ideas to more modern ideas.

Of course Africans are in awe of whites and would seldom want to disturb their fun. But I can assure you again that a fellow white would call the police too if this guy was white. And since both the shop owner and this guy are black...it's perfectly ok. And you may also be surprised that this black shop owner would have still called the police even if this guy was white. Because the shop owner already formed his ideas about what an appropriate dress code looks like

hermesprogidy:
That's a very simplistic way of looking at things. China's new found success is not based entirely on embracing western culture. Like the Japanese, they only embraced western education, specifically science and technology, but left significant parts of their cultures intact. While I agree that not all aspects of our culture is beneficial and should be done away with, it is our blatant hypocrisy and inferiority complex that irks me. If it was a White man dressed in this attire that silly shop owner would have thrown out a red carpet.

they embraced 80% of western ideas. In fact the only part of their culture they kept was language and religion. Even those have been influenced by west. Below is a street in Tokyo. See many English signages? See how 'western' the people in the photo are dressed?

And for Japan, it was a deliberate strategy. Read about the Meji era. The emperor forced Japanese citizens to adopt western dressing deliberately. The westernization made Japan the sole non-white global power. Giving them the advantages to colonize China and Korea.


As for a white men getting red carpet treatment...who told you that? Maybe from an African...but his fellow white would have called the police on him

AfonjaConehead:
Abeg shut up...the question is,were you not among the excess bunch that called Nnamdi Kanu all sort of unprintable names? Hypocrites

Mtcheewwww

I am not the one you should be quoting o Baba...I'm an IPOB member... proud one

hermesprogidy:
China is the mother of inventions. She invented writing, paper, fireworks, and loads of other things you take for granted, including numbers and mathematics. (Alongside India) Westernization goes beyond dressing. It includes Religion, language and general culture.

Africa has also been a mother of inventions long before China. Egypt and Sudan are the birth places of civilization.
Today's China however owes its new found success to Western ideas. And they have gone deeper and deeper to westernise and modernize their society. Africa should do the same and leave the old ways. If you want to badly hold on to the old ways in the name of culture, you would create a very unappealing society

FreeSpirited:
Everything you typed here is no more confirming of your innate stupidity and ignorance of culture than your first idiotic comment.You are a displaced illiterate and a cultural fool without root nor legacy to identify with
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If your education never failed you, How can you say Chinese are Westernised? How, Chinese and Japan are one of the brilliant example of cultural success of our generation, a glaring proof that westernization is not the standard recipe for morality, culture and advancement.
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Chinese are leading the world for embracing their culture in all ramifications. Mandarin language an emblem of their culture is one of the fast growing language in the world in terms of learners and speakers..
Talk about Chinese mode of governance? is it European or American style Democracy? You foolish Africans who wants to die with democracy, yet having no constitution for or ingredients for democracy are thus in rubble and everlasting backwardness cos u cant think inward and adopt mode of governance that once made Africa great in many centuries back. Do you know anything about African greatness?
If you want to talk about science, which China is now successful with, do you think it started in Europe? Or philosophy and religion which are the mother of science started from the West? China today based it's philosophy and governance on the laid down by their ancestors and warrior...Go and read the impact of Confucius on the Chinese philosophy and civilization you fool!

Fool! China's system of government came from the Soviet Union. I knew you know nothing chai And I was arguing with you. Japan is a parliamentary democracy based on the Westminster style. Awolowo free education may have been responsible for your poor knowledge of these issues but I will forgive it.

Can you tell me what china has invented?? Mobile phones and internet came from US. Planes and automobiles came from Europe. Having an army, navy and air force are western ideas. Dressing in suite are western ideas.

You talk of language. Pray tell who doesn't speak their mother tongue in Africa? Swahili is the national language in Kenya. There is a language spoken by most Ghanaians. Nigeria is the only African country without a native national language. Language is not an issue at all. And has nothing to do with westernisation. Religion is also not a factor in westernisation.

The main factors of westernisation is dressing well... western style education .... understanding and using modern technology and knowing an international language. Leaving backward culture behind

Athemisia:
Thunder will fire you first... Möron... 21 first century slaves.

you think say you wise abi you are a mumu man

IronGalaxy:
Lol how was he constituting a "nuisance"? And how was he nude while covering himself with a Ndebele cloth? Please Elaborate

his upper body was nude

IronGalaxy:
Lol, A very whitewashed perspective as to be expected. I wasn't taking about India but I was referring to South Africans of Indians lineage, they dress in their Saris and can shop anywhere and anyjow without being bothered why not Africans? You speak as of our culture is something to look down upon

Secondly, this video is just an anomaly. This guy was just feeling himself because of his position, we do dress in our tribal and shop with it especially on heritage day

you are allowed to dress in your traditional dress without constituting nuisance. That guy was nude. And it draws us back to a place we prayed our way out of as Africans. Nudity is no culture...it's just a lack of clothing technology in a culture. Every culture had that era.

KingOdart:
I think you should be more worried about why your women are not marrying you. Maybe it is because you are Pigs and dirty

Your brain is so dull to note that what you stated is also vice versa, half Yoruba will also become your leaders in Igbo Land in the future


More over Yoruba married your most beautiful women and leave the ugly looking, gorilla hairy body ones for you

your comeback lines are weak. If igbos don't marry yoruba or Hausa, that should tell you that we have an adequate number of women for ourselves and we are now exporting to you.

FreeSpirited:
You know nothing about culture. I won't engage you. You are obviously as foolish as the first comment.....I'ts a shame and you all are just a product of woeful education. If at all you have an iota of African pride or cultural awareness, which is a symbol of identity, you should ask why the management of the Shop had to apologize. You guys are disgusting! senseless, Knows nothing about your father land or legacy...African bastards ni gbogbo yi

you are very stupid and I can guess correctly that you are yoruba. You guys are the dregs of society that have refused to modernize... calling yourselves sophisticated while mutilating the faces of your children as a sign of 'culture'. Dirty culture. You guys still believe that you can become rich by mining body parts of fellow humans for wealth. Dirty fools.

The Chinese and Japanese that used to be highly cultural people dropped all that and followed a state policy of westernisation. See what they have achieved. They are the only other developed people in the world outside white countries. Forget about Arabs...they would have been as poor as Africa if not for oil.

If it was up to me, politicians in our country would only dress in suits to work. Nonsense

Compare the business-like demeanor of the Chinese here with the clownish demeanor of the Nigerian senators and their dirty cultural attires.

You have the guts to tell me about culture when you are the fool who doesn't know that culture is fluid and not static.

Cassyboy2:
Our problem is that we love copying the whites in everything.
Ask yourself, what has the whites copied from us? We copied English and dropped our local languages, we copied white wedding and some are dropping our traditional marriage, we copied clothing and wearing native dresses seems inappropriate dressing. But we never copied development of their places rather we copied corruption. They brought religion but we copied the bad religion (where our pastors are driving private jets but members are hungry.

Dressing like a 21st century human being is also copying whites? Which owomi school in heebadan are you guys even attending
What did the whites copy from Chinese? Compare that to the Chinese who copied everything from the whites and are today highly advanced and threats to the whites. You abokìs, owomis and okoros have refused the black man every chance of being competitive because you feel that unlearning is a negative trait.

Athemisia:
Shut up all you slaves of the white man...

you are the one who needs to stfu and get with the program. Japanese and Chinese people used to dress like barbarians until they made a law in their country to become more western. Can you compare them with any country in Africa Today. You babalawo dressing apes have kept dragging the black race back to were it prayed itself out of. Thunder really needs to fire the people praising this man..pissing me off

IronGalaxy:
Actually, yes. Chinese and Indians do wear their traditional attire to this day . Indian South Africans do wear their Saris even to the boardrooms.

Anyway, what Europeans choose to do in Europe must not be a barometer for us Africans

this is a picture of the Chinese general assembly. Do you see how they dressed?

Compare it to how their ancestors dressed. I purposely didn't mention India because India just like Africa is refusing modernization.

We are already a unique people by the virtue of our skin colour and hair texture...why do we want to further alienate ourselves from the rest of the world by dressing like bushmen because our unexposed ancestors dressed like that? There is nothing rich about the 'culture' this man wants to promote. If he truly wants to live in the past, let him give up his car and phone

Vanguard is just deceiving themselves. You went and asked a few politicians from SS and SE...what did you expect? For them to support breaking Nigeria?

Go and ask SS and SE youths on the streets and see if majority would not support yorubas. We are not like them...we want Nigeria to break up so why would we not support anything that breaks Nigeria up? In fact we igbos strongly believe on behalf of yorubas (since majority of yorubas doubt their capabilities) that Odudufraud Republic has all it takes to be a respectable country in Africa if and when it becomes a sovereign nation. And we even support them to deport our people from their skull mining Republic if that's what it takes to make it a success

Mumu report na him be this

FreeSpirited:
You are a filthy rat.
An Eurocentric Big fool for this statement. Africa is indeed lost. Europe mores and definition aren't the ideal of morality and decency. We have our own ideal, conscience and values..which obviously you have lost. You are indeed lost. Very disgusting and uneducated comment

you guys are just funny. There was a time most people in the world were mostly naked including Europeans. Culture change! Africa has refused to change because of people like you

TMKsouth:
If you're offended by someone's constitutionally protected right then you have no leg to stand on. Rather approach the courts and object there first instead of opening your own kangaroo court on the spot, hence breaking the law.

I'm not from SA but I know that public nudity and public nuisance are both against the law in most countries today

SuperBold:
Na this kind behavior dey make ur women dump u dey chase Yoruba boys.

We will marry them all, Yoruba progressive culture permits that

just like an Igbo woman became first lady (Maryam Abacha) because of the way Hausa dey craze for Igbo girls, a half Igbo man will also become the leader of yoruba land one day. You guys already know that Obasanjo is half Igbo...more will still come

But come o...who go come marry Una dirty dirty girls?

TMKsouth:
He's a cultural activist and author.

Anyway, in civilised societies laws are put in place to protect minorities from the tyranny of the majority. Just because the majority don't like it doesn't make it wrong.

do you think it was only our forefathers that wore esoteric attires? This was the way forefathers of the current Europe dressed. Do you see any European dressing like that recently? Why has some Africans refused to move past the 18th century?

Do you see Chinese people dressing in their 'cultural' attires today

TMKsouth:
Don't you think it's his right to remain static if he so chooses, if it doesn't harm anyone else?

it harms some people else. He caused public nuisance

Jerryherd:
President of Liberia a paid speaker


Ipobians sef

the president of Liberia is not more powerful than the governor of Anambra state. What's is the population and GDP of Liberia? And why do you think only 'ipobians' hate tinubu? Is bode George an ipobian?

Kzinne:
My question is- can anything good come out of Igbo land?

Yoroland is the headquarters of skull mining and grave digging in the world

Omoluabi1stborn:
Remove South West and South South from Nigeria and see another Pakistan

Pakistan is actually more developed and stable than Nigeria and it has nuclear weapons.
Secondly, the south east would leave first before the west or south

mekaboy:
Kanu is fighting for his pocket. Has no plan to achieve any biafra. Just dishing out lies to gullible followers, year in year out.

those who eventually achieved independence of their respective countries also did it for their pockets... sometimes without any real strategy....just luck. Check out Eritrea and south Sudan

I just dey imagine how Ned dey take fvck this girl will they be doing doggy or missionary? Will she be calling him babe or father?

KingAzari:
Anambra does not need an airport. The ones in Enugu, Asaba and Owerri are under-utilized. Remove the traffic at bridge head, from Asaba airport to Onitsha is less than 60 minutes.

a state of up to 3 million people don't need airport? Even though Nigeria has no good highway and no rail system? Oh ok...what do they 'need' then. P.s I'm from Enugu, grew up in Enugu and live in Enugu now but I support this 100%

Kubernetes:
I can guess,you are these types of stubborn traders. If really you have a business, you won't be typing such tribal hate speeches in a forum and calling a whole region such names. Your moniker is enough reason to suggest you being a social deviant, a nepotist and someone from an ancestry of Kaduna Nzeogu.

unity beggers. Why are you people always hating to hear about the division of Nigeria?

KingOdart:
Look at this congenital nincompoop and anointed cretin
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Talking as if you people don't also mine skulls in your Potopoto Republic or who were the people they caught at Okija shrine?


You guys must be so rich that's why you sell your children for peanuts and have baby factories litter all over Nigeria, oh what about your women that dominate brothels across Nigeria charging 500Naira per round?

go and mine your father's skull in peace and leave me alone ogbeni scarefaces

KingOdart:
Severe Pain Nyamirin

I can see your tears behind those scribble

What about your inferiority complex cause by your flat head, big forehead and generational poverty?

Kill yourself

generational poverty? You must be living in your own alternatie reality. Your skull miners and head hunters cannot possibly be rich and still mining skull. You guys are the ritual capital of the world. Better to sell drugs in Asia than to be a grave digger

NyamiriFlathead:
Why always yoruba, it is because we are really blessed by God almighty, we are the only ones doing great anywhere in the world and making this country proud and without us yoruba in this country, there will never be anything good to celebrate.
We no dey do drug pushing, baby factory, baby pounding and prostitution but we are known all over the world bcuz we are intelligent, educated and we still remain the greatest and most blessed tribe in africa and that is why those people from other side of the country envy and hate us.
Thousand years to come, we still remain their baba and surely they will die with their hate
God bless yoruba nation
God bless oduduwa people

a skull mining tribe celebrating being elected into an unknown organisation because of low self-esteem caused by having an oblong head and scar face
I no mention any tribe o

You may ask me to agree that if the British left Nigeria to its fate, the Northerners would continue their uninterrupted march to the sea, as was prophesied six years ago? My reply is that such an empty threat is devoid of historical substance and that so far as I know, the Eastern Region has never been subjugated by any indigenous African invader. At the price of being accused of overconfidence, I will risk a prophecy and say that, other things being equal, the Easterners will defend themselves gallantly, if and when they are invaded.

I like what Zik said here. The north think the east will ever bend over to be fvcked. Their only saving grace is the continued support they receive from the yorubas and UK

And in the world of Gas reserves, South East is king. We hold the largest onshore gas reserves in Nigeria around the Anambra basin

JohnSin97:
Oh shattap...we all saw how your brothers responded to the crisis in ogun and Benin republic.

we responded as we should. We mocked you for not standing your ground and running to Benin Republic. You are mocking us for standing our ground and dying like men...apples and oranges