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is it just me, or are there more christmas threads this year than previously?

i doubt its even mostly christians celebrating christmas or opening threads.

in nigeria, most people can only afford to eat chicken at christmas.

elsewhere, chicken is eaten all the time.

a lot of people become vegetarians because they do not like the idea of feeding on animals.

macdonalds has 10 million pounds of chicken they need to sell.

Prejudice


refers to prejudgment, or forming an opinion before becoming aware of the relevant facts of a case.

The word is often used to refer to preconceived, usually unfavorable, judgments toward people or a person because of gender, social class, age, disability, religion, sexuality, race/ethnicity, language, nationality or other personal characteristics.

In this case, it refers to a positive or negative evaluation of another person based on their perceived group membership.

Prejudice can also refer to unfounded beliefs and may include "any unreasonable attitude that is unusually resistant to rational influence."

Gordon Allport defined prejudice as a "feeling, favorable or unfavorable, toward a person or thing, prior to, or not based on, actual experience."

wiki

Xenophobia is the irrational or unreasoned fear of that which is perceived to be foreign or strange


Racism

poor treatment of or violence against people because of their race

: the belief that some races of people are better than others


Tribalism

loyalty to a tribe or other social group especially when combined with strong negative feelings for people outside the group


Phobia

A phobia (from the Greek: φόβος, Phóbos, meaning "fear" or "morbid fear" ) is, when used in the context of clinical psychology, a type of anxiety disorder, usually defined as a persistent fear of an object or situation in which the sufferer commits to great lengths in avoiding, typically disproportional to the actual danger posed, often being recognized as irrational. In the event the phobia cannot be avoided entirely, the sufferer will endure the situation or object with marked distress and significant interference in social or occupational activities.




It is possible for an individual to develop a phobia over virtually anything. The name of a phobia generally contains a Greek word for what the patient fears plus the suffix -phobia.

sources: wiki and www

[quote author=tpia@]its an "ism" and the fault is often in the person hating.

"ism" or "ia" as in racism, tribalism, etc.

"ia" as in xenophobia, phobia, etc. Caused by fear of something or someone, for whatever reason.

"Intuition" does not make you hate someone on sight, rather i'd call it a neuroses, an "ism" or "ia".[/quote]

i'm sure they've seen and been told of this thread, they just prefer to ignore it for reasons best known to them.

perhaps they prefer interacting with nigerians.

If you must fly, travel with your most trusted chef

true that.

i doubt most world leaders would be so trusting.

actually, in olden times, this type of thing would be equivalent to a declaration of war.

[img]http://mathildasanthropologyblog.files./2008/04/nokboy.jpg[/img]

this nok sculpture, for example, has highly stylized facial proportions.

the chin and cheekbones are elongated, as are the nose, lips and eyes,which also follow the triangular pattern of the face.

@ bolded

naturalistic art is art which depicts objects as close as possible to their natural form.

in stylization, different parts may be exaggerated or minimized depending on emphasis.

African art is a term typically used for the art of Sub-Saharan Africa.Often, casual observers tend to generalize "traditional" African art, but the continent is full of people, societies and civilizations, each with a unique visual culture. The definition may also include the art of the African Diasporas, such as the art of African Americans. Despite this diversity, there are some unifying artistic themes when considering the totality of the visual culture from the continent of Africa.


The term African art does not usually include the art of the North African areas along the Mediterranean coast, as such areas had long been part of different traditions. For more than a millennium, the art of such areas had formed part of Islamic art, although with many particular characteristics. The Art of Ethiopia, with a long Christian tradition, is also different from that of most of Africa, where Traditional African religion (with Islam in the north) was dominant until relatively recently.

Most African sculpture was historically in wood and other organic materials that have not survived from earlier than, at most, a few centuries ago; older pottery figures can be found from a number of areas. Masks are important elements in the art of many peoples, along with human figures, often highly stylized. There is a vast variety of styles, often varying within the same context of origin depending on the use of the object, but wide regional trends are apparent; sculpture is most common among "groups of settled cultivators in the areas drained by the Niger and Congo rivers" in West Africa.[2] Direct images of deities are relatively infrequent, but masks in particular are or were often made for religious ceremonies; today many are made for tourists as "airport art".

African masks were an influence on European Modernist art,which was inspired by their lack of concern for naturalistic depiction.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_art

Meanwhile the company which employed him to interpret at the memorial have reportedly 'vanished'

vanished to where?

lord have mercy.

im go land nigeria soon.

The fact that the people in the crowd had the hearts to look at this being done, even if they were just onlookers means that the society has been de-sensitized to that kind of thing.

most are still roaming free, well, God dey sha.

there is a possibility that it might have been a set up

it was.

in addition, at least one of the boys had a prior warning months or weeks before, but he assumed the threat was a joke.

catching up on my reading.

when exactly did she allegedly build or buy the house?

this is the same story from last year:

https://www.nairaland.com/1105601/linda-ikeji-buys-grande-duplex


https://www.nairaland.com/1105360/linda-ikeji-purchased-duplex-parents

sholay2011: I see. I think it was 'withdrawn' cos of d '100' score. Dats d disadvantage of being too brilliant.

Don't mind me o.

all you people looking for visa, hope you were told america is not a jungle so you will need to pretend to be civilized if you reach there?

lmao @ "too brilliant".

South African workers and tourists in neighbouring Mozambique fled back home

i thought they no dey fear.

anyway

a plan by the Nigerian government and several of its affiliates and cronies to inflict a major assault on its producers and reporters, and blackmail the website

who are these affiliates and cronies?

just make sure your stories are verified and vetted before publishing, so we dont have tales of buildings that never were.

its not a good look.

is he necessarily related to the late mrs victoria akinola?

why did they kidnap him?

Why is the op always looking for relevance.

Foreign section plz, or is nigeria the west?

South africans have never liked nigerians anyway.

Wonder why they didn't respond.

serious.

Who did he offend there?

doesnt look like they ever will.

op.