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Culture » MY CULTURE by: Charity(f) .:. Fri, 08 Feb, 2019 - 10:07:34:am GMT
As an Urhobo woman, In my culture, a married woman don't go outside to have sex i.e shes forbidden to cheat on her husband. If she does,d husband becomes very poor,wretched, and he becomes very ill. Until the wife confesses and do the ritual before things becomes normal. And d man can never eat her food nor sleep with her. I believe this is not right cos they are giving the husbands good opportunities to cheat on their wives cos there won't be repercussions in them. That's why aman can sleep with millions of girls outside his home yet nothing happens but when the woman tries it once she's doomed. Everyone condemns her, but doesn't condemn d man cos he's a man and has the right to sleep around. I think something has to be done about this.... How do you see it?

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Re: MY CULTURE by: Piwizo(m) .:. Fri, 08 Feb, 2019 - 10:39:42:am GMT

Well you have said it all, one thing I wish to be in life is to be an urhobo man because I’ll have the opportunity to do whatever I like lol, I’m just kidding, but on a more serious note I think it’s 50:50 because since the woman knows the rules of the land then you don’t need to go about cheating around with men that’s not your husband, and what I sincerely don’t like is why should the sins of the woman who cheats affects the man so bad and also his stomach, no be him send the woman message to go cheat na, if I ever get married to an urhobo woman and she cheats on me, well you already heard the saying Warri no they carry last, we go don start competition be that oh, I go even tell am say baby I am going out if she ask me where are you going to? I go reply am say; to cheat on you ofcourse. The way I see it is this, if women don’t want to get heartbroken from your place they shouldn’t cheat and please I have a question for you, if an urhobo man cheats what are the negative things that happens to the woman will she also get ill? Because it has to be 50:50 oh? Just asking!!!
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Re: MY CULTURE by: Flochords(f) .:. Mon, 15 Jun, 2020 - 03:09:08:pm GMT

Culture is the way of life of people. My culture mean the culture am practicing presently. Culture is in different forms. Just like in Nigeria presently we have different cultures namely the igbo, hausa Yoruba. I want to talk about my own culture which is the Yoruba culture. Yoruba culture is a very unique culture that has their way way of doing things different from other cultures. Each culture is unique in its own way. The Yoruba culture have its way of greeting, dressing, types of food they eat, the kind of festivals they hold and names they call their children and their kings and rulers. Yoruba call their kings “OBA” and they call their chiefs “IJOYE”. The foods Yoruba cook are as follows: Efo riro,  ila, iyan, amala, lafu, ekuru, orunla, etc are the native food of the Yoruba culture. The Yoruba culture have different ways of dressing which differ in male and female genders, the men wear: agbada, dansiki, kembe, etc. while the females wear: iro and buba, kaba, etc and they also have traditional beads they use to compliment their dressings. Yoruba culture promotes modesty in dressings.  Examples of the Yoruba festivals include: Egungun festival, yam festival, osun festival, etc The egungun festival is a very paramount festival in the Yoruba culture.  Yoruba parents name their children in the Yoruba language. Examples of Yoruba names are: Alake, Ajoke, Agbeke, Aduke, Aweke, Awele, Adigun, Adunni, Akanni, Alani, Adufe, Alamu, Atoke, Ajike, Ajabe, Ajadi, Atanda, Ayanfe, Aremu, Abefe, etc  mostly the names starts with “A” in the Yoruba accent.  My culture is something I should be proud of because that is my background. Let me quickly teach you few Yoruba languages.
Adupe:  This means “I am grateful.”
Duro : This means “stand.”
Joko This means “sit down.”
Soro: This means “talk.”
Kosi: This means “it is not available”
Wa:  This means “come”
Lo: This means “go.” And lots  more.
Ket me quickly talk about Yoruba wedding ceremony. It is always very interesting because of the order in which the wedding program goes. The wife is called “IYAWO” and the husband is called “ OKO” so I will be using them interchangeably as I keep writing. The first part is the INTRODUCTION CEREMONY; when  the iyawo will bring her man to the family and the oko too brings his family to her place, they meet one another, know one another, exchange pleasantries and introduce themselves to one another with the oko and iyawo dressed beautifully in our Yoruba culture dressing way. They cook in the introduction ceremony, gist and talk together. So the second part is called the ENGAGEMENT CEREMONY, this is also interchangeably called the “THE TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE” because this is the Yoruba culture wedding exactly whereby the man brings the bride price of the wife and the family of the wife collects it, they ask the husband to go and prostrate with his friends accompanying him to his wife’s parent asking for her hand in marriage and they will pray for him and sit him on their laps and snap with him, the wife also will go to her husband’s parent and kneel before them and they will receive her, sit her on their laps and snap with them. And then they both go to their parents and sit on their laps too and snap with them. In the Yoruba wedding, the husband pays a lot of money, he will pay money for wife transportation, money for wife dancing, money for different funny things but they are just the fun part of the wedding though. So they cut their cake, feed each other and snap a lot of pictures together. During the entrance, the husband enters the auditorium before his wife and hen just sits there eagerly expecting his charming and lovely beauty queen. *smiles* Yoruba culture is a very good and interesting culture. I AM PROUD TO BE A YORUBA. ARE YOU PROUD OF YOUR OWN CULTURE?
      

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Re: MY CULTURE by: Flat(m) .:. Wed, 17 Jun, 2020 - 02:44:30:pm GMT

My Culture
Most times when you see people act in a particular way and you judge them on the basis of the action you see them perform, then you will be wrong if you are not practicing the same culture with that person, this is because, a lot of people act based on the culture they practice.
What then is culture? Culture is the arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation. It is also the beliefs, values, behaviour and material objects that constitute a people's way of life. Each particular society as it own way of doing things and that constitute their culture. Nigeria as a country consists of different tribes and each tribe as it own culture. Tribes such as the Yoruba, Igbos, Hausa, etc. Each tribe has it own uniqueness, so always appreciate your culture.
My Culture, am proudly empowered from the Yoruba culture. You see, the Yoruba culture is one of the best culture in Nigeria and somehow in the world. The culture is so much endowed to the extent that the white men are always eager to be part of it. The Yoruba culture is richly and respectful in terms of food, clothes, greetings, festival, etc.
In terms of food, the Yoruba people has a lot of food full of cultural heritage such as, abari, ikokore, egbo, jogi, ekuru, amala, eba, ojojo etc., all this food ehn, when you eat them, you might not be able to control the flight between your teeth and tongue.In terms of clothes, the Yoruba people have clothes like iro and buba, agbada, dansiki etc. In terms of greetings, the Yoruba culture ensures that the young male prostrate to greet an elder while the young female kneel down to greet the elderly ones. In terms of festival, the Yoruba people do festival such as egungun festival, agere festival, alagemo festival, who festival, Oro festival etc.
In conclusion, each culture as it own unique, therefore, always take the pride in your culture.


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Re: MY CULTURE by: Oluwatomisin(f) .:. Sat, 18 Jul, 2020 - 03:45:08:pm GMT

Different people have different cultures. Every cultures its unique in their own way. Culture can be define as the way of life. We have different kind of culture. Some people are yourba while some are Igbo. 


I am proud to be a Yourba girl. My culture has their own uniqueness. My culture has a lot of values in it. Yourba is one of the common culture in Nigeria. 

Yourba is endowed with Respect. They value respect so much. As a yourba man or woman they've been trained how to respect right from Childhood. Some cultures don't have regards for their elder ones but that cannot be found in yourba's. Even someone who's older than you with just a month the yourba's still believed he or she is your elder. 

They also value Dressing. You can't dress anyhow as a yourba man or woman. Yourba's has their own unique dressing. Though, the way yourba dresses these days has a slight different from now because of civilization. Still yet civilization didn't change the Yoruba's way of life. 

There's a lot of things in my culture. Each culture is unique. No matter where will find ourselves we should always appreciate the culture and also help to promote the culture. 

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Re: MY CULTURE by: Bookie(f) .:. Sat, 18 Jul, 2020 - 04:22:31:pm GMT

One aspect of our culture in my home town that I really like as  a lady is this aspect that  at least enables  disinherited female children get their own portion of their parents properties.

When a woman dies, it is the custom that her people (that is people from her fathers side) must be the first to dig her grave. They  see  it as a great honour and a kind of final farewell to one of their own. 

In a case whereby the  woman  was disinherited by her brothers, her husband or children may not call them to do the digging. This is seen as a thing of shame to the family as this digging of a thing is usually done with a lot of people around just to see if the family had done right by the deceased.

So in most cases the brothers or their children  are forced  to give the children of the  deceased their mothers rights before they can participate in the burial rites.


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Re: MY CULTURE by: Olatoke(m) .:. Sat, 18 Jul, 2020 - 05:50:27:pm GMT


My culture is yoruba. 

I am a yoruba boy and  I am proud of  my  culture, I am from  osun  state , Nigeria, yoruba  has a  good  culture  and  very  interesting way of  life. 
My culture, we are  originate  from  odudua, odudua  is whom God  sent  to  us, in my culture there are some  different  ways Of getting things done, yoruba has different  tradition such as  tribal  mark, dressing, food. 
In yoruba  culture there are lot of things, in my  own culture the food  we like to eat is pounded yam and egusi soup,and  palm wine, the dressing  iro and baba that is for the woman and for the man Agbada. We have  a  king and Queens, In my culture  we have  some  certain  rules  and  regulations, which guide  the people  and the  community, if any one  miss behave there is  a  proper sanctions against any forms of crim
My culture is yoruba and I am proud to be a yoruba  boy , God bless my  culture, God bless Nigeria. 

**Olatoke **


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Re: MY CULTURE by: Temmylove(f) .:. Sat, 25 Jul, 2020 - 10:19:01:am GMT

Culture is simply the total way of life. Culture is the arts, customs, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation.
 
There are numerous cultures in the world and here in Nigeria  but I love my culture because it is respectful and imitable . My culture is a culture in which what you say matters, the way you speak  matters, the way you eat matters, the way you sing matters, when you sing matters, the way you  dress matters, the way you look and how you look.

My culture is Yoruba culture and it's in different aspects ,

1. Food :  we have different delicacy in Yoruba culture  like 
Amala

Ewedu

Efo riro

Efo riro elegusi 

Gure oloboro

Iyan

Ofada rice and sta didin

And many more while my favourite is amala, ewedu, stew and gbegiri with correct meat and ponmo. 

2. Dressing: Yoruba style of dressing is wonderfully unique. 
The women wear iro ,buba and here while the men put on buba and sokoto. 

3.Music: Yoruba music is always  melodious. We have different style of music in Yoruba culture 

i. Apala

ii.  Waka

iii. Oriki

iv. Bolojo 

v. Ewi   and lots more. 


4. Mode of greeting :  In my culture the women are to kneel down to greet  while the men are to prostrate. My really honours elderly ones and the scriptures is in support of it. Exodus 20: 12


ESV:“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.



Yoruba culture also encourage ladies to stay without being deflowered until their  wedding night. If the lady is deflowered on her wedding night by her husband, her in-laws will respect her and she will be celebrated. 

Yoruba culture is a culture what imitation  . I am proud of my culture. 










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Re: MY CULTURE by: Phaithh(f) .:. Wed, 29 Jul, 2020 - 10:27:19:pm GMT

Culture is the way of life of people in a particular environment. Nigeria has three major tribes - Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa.
Yeah! The Igbo tribe is a great tribe. The people occupy the eastern part of the country. Below are the way of life of the Igbo people:
DRESSING
In the ancient times, the maidens (unmarried) wear clothes that cover only their chest and waist, exposing their belly, it is believed that they will attract suitors faster. The married women cover themselves more in wrappers and blouses. The Igbo women like wrappers - they are known for their double wrapper tying on their waist. The men (married or unmarried) prefer to go shirtless or better still, wear singlet with a wrapper on their waists. Civilization has actually transformed the dress patterns as we now imitate and wear English wears, but we still love the traditional wrappers and can't really do without it. An average Igbo woman has dozens of the traditional wrappers.
GREETING
The boy child greets the parents with head bow down and slightly bent waist. Prostrating is not really common. A child prostrating is either serving a punishment or just having fun. For the girl child, kneeling is not necessarily important, she also bows her head and bends her knee slightly (maybe a standing position of kneeling).
Some part of Igbo people are not really known for calling thier parents by "mama" or "papa", they rather give them their own names (not nickname, more like a loving name). 
One might say, the Igbo people especially the children are not respectful to their parents. Well, it's not like that, the children kind of form love bonds with their parents and that makes them interact freely with one another. The parents and children closely relate.
FOOD
We are known for different delicacies, soups especially. We like vegetables and most of our soups is named after several vegetables - oha soup, okazi soup, bitter leaf soup, ugu soup, gardenegg soup, okro soup, other soups include ofe owerri, ofe nsala, ofe akwu (banga soup), groundnut soup, melon soup, ogbono soup, ofe achi etc. A soup with assorteds - stockfish, driedfish, crayfish, bush meat, snails is also loved with "akpu" made from cassava. Garri is also loved but most Igbo people love the coloured (yellow) garri. And so many other foods (I can't list all).
WORK/BUSINESS
We have the subsistent and the commercial farmers. Farming is a professional occupation amongst the Igbo people - yam, vegetables, fruits, palm wine, palm oil etc. Hunting games like deer, bush rabbit is also a good business. Garri making and "akpu" making too. We prefer to work in the farms than in companies, though some that claim they are "civilized" don't like it. 


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Re: MY CULTURE by: Phaithh(f) .:. Wed, 29 Jul, 2020 - 10:28:47:pm GMT

CEREMONIES/FESTIVALS
The Igbo marriage ceremonies is always fun to witness. It's so colourful and entertaining. Marrying an Igbo lady especially if she is the Ada (first daughter) of the family is money-draining as the bride price and other prices (the kindred and the "umu-ada" prices) will be ridiculously high. It is advised for a man to sit down and count the cost before going ahead to marry an Igbo girl. 
Another important ceremony is obtaining the CHIEFTAINCY TITLE. This is done mostly by the men. For a man to obtain a chieftaincy title, it shows he has affluence and he will be respected more in the community. It's so important that a number of men opt for "black" money just to get this title.
Burial ceremonies, child dedication, masquerade festivals are also important celebrations among the Igbo people.
TONATION/SPEECH
The Igbo people are recognized by their tonations - there is a special sound attached to their words. They also tend to speak opening wide their mouths.
The /r/ and /l/ sounds are often used in the place of the other. Words like "rice, love, run" can be "lice, rove, lun", but it's not all the Igbos. I remember a family relative, we were discussing and then he said "let us play", it took me a while to understand that he actually meant "let us pray". I was able to discover that the problem is not with the tongue, but with the Igbo dialect. Most dialect use the /l/ sound often and so some people find it hard to change when speaking English.
RELIGION
Traditional worshippers and Christians, no Muslims. The Christians are mostly Catholic members or sabatarians (Seventh-day Adventist). The traditional worshippers serve "Amadiaho" - an earth god. We also have the Tradi-Chri worshippers - they go to church but also run to the shrine when they have any problem. Thank GOD, we are changing gradually.

The Igbo people culture is inexhaustible. I hope you've gotten a glimpse or idea of about it.


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Re: MY CULTURE by: Jegiyasa(m) .:. Thu, 30 Jul, 2020 - 05:49:12:pm GMT

Exactly with ours too .

what a woman does in her husband's house like cheating it will affect the children and the man ,unless she confesses and kill a goat ,she will eat the goats hear raw

**Kolo**


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Re: MY CULTURE by: Bolexy46(m) .:. Tue, 04 Aug, 2020 - 01:06:25:am GMT

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Understanding My Culture Means Understanding Myself: The Function of Cultural Identity Clarity for Personal Identity Clarity and Personal Psychological Well?Being

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Culture is acknowledged to be a critical element in the construction of an individual's identity; however, in today's increasingly multicultural environments, the influence of culture is no longer straightforward. It is now important to explore cultural identity clarity—the extent to which beliefs about identity that arise from one's cultural group membership(s) are clearly and confidently understood. We describe a novel theoretical model to explain why having a clear and confident understanding of one's cultural identity is important for psychological well?being, as it clarifies one's understanding of personal identity. We propose that a clear cultural identity clarifies one's personal existence, by providing a clear normative template, reducing personal uncertainty, providing an individual with a sense of continuity, and buffering an individual against the fear of death. We discuss the implications of this model within our complex cultural worlds.


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Re: MY CULTURE by: Princessprecious(m) .:. Tue, 04 Aug, 2020 - 10:35:08:am GMT

Hmmmmmmmm! This is soooooo trueee, but one thing is that the culture shouldnt try to favour one side and leaves the other side condemed. Which is not supposed to be so..... Yes, i know there is a culture which people must obey and follow their rules and regulations and failure to abide with it, hmmmm! I believe there is a consequence..... But why is it that it always that, most part of the culture tends to be favouring the MEN other than the women. Which i think it should be 50;50...... They should try and also try to favour the women.... 

         Though i am not saying that women should be promiscous or be cheating on their husband after getting married.... But am just explaining the fact that they allows MEN to be cheating on their wife, while leaving women OPT-OUT... WHY? Arent them married to eachother. When Bible says that God hates fornication and adultery, He didnot say ON THE PART OF THE WOMEN ALONE. but rather, on the both part

Okkkkkk, or infact lets put it this way, women arent allowed? But men are allowed to cheat... If MEN are doing it, is it to the trees? Reall... Isnt it to WOMEN, at least if A man wants to sleep with a person, who will they sleep with? Isnt it with a woman? Of course it is with a woman. When it not with a goat or tree. So if this case shwomeremain this way.... 
     I think Both men and women should have an equal right.... If MEN are allowed to cheat, same also women should also cheat either. But since the fact is that WOMEN arent allowed to cheat. Same also;the men should also shouldnt try to do the same.... Why are they cheating... It means they arent or satisfied or they dont love the wife. So why would you tell a woman you love her if you know you dont sincerely do.... Both men and women, be faithful in your marriage. Both male and female, be faithful with your spouse.... 

**Precious**


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Re: MY CULTURE by: Luckygeorge(m) .:. Mon, 10 Aug, 2020 - 04:06:22:pm GMT


   https://www.beneyoyo.com/forum.php?category=Culture" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in 0s; outline: none !important;">Culture » MY CULTURE by: https://www.beneyoyo.com/getprofile.php?username=Charity" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in 0s; outline: none !important;">Charity(f) .:.  Fri, 08 Feb, 2019 - 10:07:34:am GMT

As an Urhobo woman, In my culture, a married woman don't go outside to have sex i.e shes forbidden to cheat on her husband. If she does,d husband becomes very poor,wretched, and he becomes very ill. Until the wife confesses and do the ritual before things becomes normal. And d man can never eat her food nor sleep with her. I believe this is not right cos they are giving the husbands good opportunities to cheat on their wives cos there won't be repercussions in them. That's why aman can sleep with millions of girls outside his home yet nothing happens but when the woman tries it once she's doomed. Everyone condemns her, but doesn't condemn d man cos he's a man and has the right to sleep around. I think something has to be done about this


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Re: MY CULTURE by: Sharpminds(m) .:. Wed, 12 Aug, 2020 - 05:18:01:pm GMT


@Flat:Culture is in different forms. Just like in Nigeria presently we have different cultures namely the igbo, hausa Yoruba. I want to talk about my own culture which is the Yoruba culture. Yoruba culture is a very unique culture that has their way way of doing things different from other cultures. Each culture is unique in its own way. The Yoruba culture have its way of greeting, dressing, types of food they eat, the kind of festivals they hold and names they call their children and their kings and rulers. Yoruba call their kings "OBA" and they call their chiefs "IJOYE". The foods Yoruba cook are as follows: Efo riro, ila, iyan, amala, lafu, ekuru, orunla, etc are the native food of the Yoruba culture. The Yoruba culture have different ways of dressing which differ in male and female genders, the men wear: agbada, dansiki, kembe, etc. while the females wear: iro and buba, kaba, etc and they also have traditional beads they use to compliment their dressings. Yoruba culture promotes modesty in dressings. Examples of the Yoruba festivals include: Egungun festival, yam festival, osun festival, etc The egungun festival is a very paramount festival in the Yoruba culture. Yoruba parents name their children in the Yoruba language. Examples of Yoruba names are: Alake, Ajoke, Agbeke, Aduke, Aweke, Awele, Adigun, Adunni, Akanni, Alani, Adufe, Alamu, Atoke, Ajike, Ajabe, Ajadi, Atanda, Ayanfe, Aremu, Abefe, etc mostly the names starts with "A" in the Yoruba accent. My culture is something I should be proud of because that is my background. Let me quickly teach you few Yoruba languages.

Adupe: This means "I am grateful."
Duro : This means "stand."
Joko This means "sit down."
Soro: This means "talk."
Kosi: This means "it is not available"
Wa: This means "come"
Lo: This means "go." And lots more.
Ket me quickly talk about Yoruba wedding ceremony. It is always very interesting because of the order in which the wedding program goes. The wife is called "IYAWO" and the husband is called " OKO" so I will be using them interchangeably as I keep writing. The first part is the INTRODUCTION CEREMONY when the iyawo will bring her man to the family and the oko too brings his family to her place, they meet one another, know one another, exchange pleasantries and introduce themselves to one another with the oko and iyawo dressed beautifully in our Yoruba culture dressing way. They cook in the introduction ceremony, gist and talk together. So the second part is called the ENGAGEMENT CEREMONY, this is also interchangeably called the "THE TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE" because this is the Yoruba culture wedding exactly whereby the man brings the bride price of the wife and the family of the wife collects it, they ask the husband to go and prostrate with his friends accompanying him to his wife's parent asking for her hand in marriage and they will pray for him and sit him on their laps and snap with him, the wife also will go to her husband's parent and kneel before them and they will receive her, sit her on their laps and snap with them. And then they both go to their parents and sit on their laps too and snap with them. In the Yoruba wedding, the husband pays a lot of money, he will pay money for wife transportation, money for wife dancing, money for different funny things but they are just the fun part of the wedding though. So they cut their cake, feed each other and snap a lot of pictures together. During the entrance, the husband enters the auditorium before his wife and hen just sits there eagerly expecting his charming and lovely beauty queen. 

**Whatever is impossible with God has not been created**


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Re: MY CULTURE by: Holashayo(f) .:. Sun, 16 Aug, 2020 - 09:01:44:pm GMT

I so much agree with that observation. It is indeed what is happening. Apart from culture of  the people, it is rare seeing a married woman committing adultery. It is common in men so it becomes something that baffles when a woman is caught in the act. It is said that a woman who cheat on her husband will eventually kill him. Of course it must have a reason why women cheat on their husband but there is always not a genuine reason for men who do that. Which is very partial.
I even heard that i igbo land, maybe some states, that when a lady is married to their tribe and unfortunately he dies, she will not have the opportunity to marry again. She will be a widow forever.
Hmm that one really touched me. What if she is still young.? Will she end her life like that?
I don't dispute the fact that cheating is bad but there are some culture which camp someone in a place called prison yard.

**Damiswag**


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Re: MY CULTURE by: Fashnet(m) .:. Sun, 06 Sep, 2020 - 03:52:59:pm GMT


  Africa and her way of life, wonders shall never cease. What a culture indeed. I just don't understand how We think in Africa, no wonder the white came and took advantage of almost all the African countries that we're seen except for one or two that were left out.

  How on earth did we have culture like this till this present age and we are so proud of it. Let's us look at it from this side of life. Our ancestors like we refer to them though they are humans like us and we refer to them as ancestors because they existed years back before us.

  Now our ancestors one way or the other came about this kind of culture and it has been in practice since then till now? Why can't we just face life and turn from evil and darkness, let's turn from mediocrities and hypocrisy and turn aright.

  We should not uphold a culture just because our ancestors practiced it, no it does not make it right! for crying out loud. Just because a sex specie is favoured and the other gender is seen as a weaker vessel does not mean we should uphold what is wrong from illiteracy and uncivilized age.

 If our forefathers got it wrong please let us work it out and stop all kind of wrong doings that have been in practice time immemorial. This is one of the reasons I love the white with the way they reason and act. It does not mean that because their forefathers practice some beliefs before them that they also would do the same.

 I see this as evil and we still back it up. I know there are lots of things that are wrong in our culture that we need to correct. Let's speak against any form of injustice all in the name of culture.

What is wrong is wrong my people!

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Re: MY CULTURE by: Nagiano(m) .:. Mon, 07 Sep, 2020 - 09:23:13:am GMT

This is one of the problems of gender inequality in Nigeria whereby cultures/traditions are not fair towards the women but favours the men more thereby encouraging them to do things to their woman that they themselves can't accept. Wickedness in disguise. 


But things are changing gradually even though some old men are being too stubborn and ignorant to let go off all these unfavourable traditions that are only causing problems in the society. The only thing that amazes me is when I see some youths strongly holding on to these cultures that doesn't even favour them. 

I hope that one day Nigeria will be a better place with laws and traditions that will favour both men and women equally without preference for one over the other. Gender equality will be the norms of the society and everyone will be judged equally according to their actions. 

**Man United for Life**


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Re: MY CULTURE by: Lilcent(m) .:. Mon, 07 Sep, 2020 - 06:57:38:pm GMT

We need to preach gender equality and be more loud about it the things that pains me the most is how most youth of our generation carry tradition put for their head, this so called tradition has failed us and hasn't deeply affected our society negatively more then positive.

I hate it so much how tradition put women under under certain conditions and makes the man free.

You can imagine that a man is free to cheat and a woman is not free to do the same, a man can marry more then one wife and a woman can't, if she those she will be called all sort of names.

I will  advise  to preach gender equality  to build  a better  society. 

**liltech**


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Re: MY CULTURE by: Toxyron(f) .:. Tue, 08 Sep, 2020 - 09:14:37:am GMT

What is culture ? Culture is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, encompassing language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and Arts. The things culture does it to unite people together, they are United through the similarities they share together be it through Religion, food and fashion.

 We have the Material and Non material culture:
1) Material Culture: Material culture has to do with material things suchs as arts, crafts, artifacts and physical subjects such as crown, staff, pots. Material culture depends on the product of man's creativity.
2) Non-material culture: This is entirely different from the material culture. This has to do with the norms, values, beliefs, festivals, music, dance, language, marriage system.
 The difference between the material and Non-material culture is that the material culture can be replaced while the Non-material culture can't be replaced.
Language is also one strong thing that holds people of the same culture together.
I would have to admit that I am proud of my culture, the language, the food, the fashion sense everything is just explicit. The Yoruba culture is one of the best cultures and I am proud to be part of the culture.
   I also admire the culture of the Igbo's especially the food, their food is one of the best. The first time I ate this Banga soup I fell in love with it even though the process of making the soup is really stressful but I still applaud them.





**Sharon**


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Re: MY CULTURE by: Tribune(m) .:. Sat, 24 Oct, 2020 - 08:17:08:pm GMT

My culture,am always happy been a Yoruba man,my culture is full of respect and they is peace I my culture lineage.

There is always culture with different way of practicing it.when we are talking about Yoruba people,in everywhere they are there is always a different way of doing things because yoruba culture it too unique before any other culture and the way they are practicing it,for example in yoruba culture there when a son want to greet his mother or father anytime of the day,he will need to postorate properly during the greetings but in some other culture with there lineage,they have an hand shake and that to Yoruba culture mean you are disrespecting in all ways 

**Olalekan**


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