So many nigerian guys here try so hard to be something they are not. Especially when they try to become blood or crip, knowing damn well they wouldn't do that in nigeria. i feel a guy can show his toughness in other was rather than joining a gang. its not cute. some ladies may like tough guys, but it wouldnt be cute when their bad-ass byfriend gets shot or stabbed

You wrong lady, not every Nigerian guys are like that. Besides, it does not happen to Nigerians only but almost every foreigner.
And let me ask a question too, why do Nigerian women go nasty when they come to America?

let me speak for myself. i was born in neigeria and wen i came here my attitude stayed d same. i aint gonna change for nodoby, regardless of d fact dat im in america. d reason why nnigerian ladies may act nasty is caus of ya fake nigerian guys tring so hard to b something you not

yeah ladyj!

d reason why nnigerian ladies may act nasty is caus of ya fake nigerian guys tring so hard to b something you not

Well, maybe you can say Nigerians guys around you are fake, but as for me, I am a REAL guy, take it or leave it.
I didn't come to America to aquire their negativity, i came to America to be who i've always wanted to be.
So, don't generalize us or else you will be committing fallacy of composition

I DIDNT ASK FOR ALL DAT FALSE STUFF MR. SMARTY PANTS. ITS AIGHT. IF U REAL, DATS COOL. SO DONT BE OFFENDED. I WANNA HEAR D NIGERIANS WHO SWEAR DEY GANSTA BRING 'EM OUT!!!!

I DIDNT ASK FOR ALL DAT FALSE STUFF MR. SMARTY PANTS. ITS AIGHT. IF U REAL, DATS COOL. SO DONT BE OFFENDED. I WANNA HEAR D NIGERIANS WHO SWEAR DEY GANSTA BRING 'EM OUT!!!!

Alright then, no qualms. Dont worry, i think some guys are offline now, they will give you your neccesary replies as soon as they gat your posting. I trust them

well, i wouldnt say that they try to be gangsta. but they do try to fit in. around my area(the east coast)., they try so hard to portray some thuggish image. some come to school, dont do their work, disrespect their teachers, join gangs e.t.c.

but such things have been happening in nigeria. not all nigerian guyz in america are like that.

well, i wouldnt say that they try to be gangsta. but they do try to fit in. around my area(the east coast)., they try so hard to portray some thuggish image. some come to school, don't do their work, disrespect their teachers, join gangs e.t.c.

but such things have been happening in nigeria. not all nigerian guyz in america are like that.

for the first time in Nairaland, I support you

2nde:

for the first time in Nairaland, I support you

lol, thats cuz we are always arguing( ja rule vs 50cents) _{interesting arguments by the way}

thats because we are always arguing( ja rule vs 50cents) interesting arguments by the way

yeah, a like a lady like you. A lady with her own believes

lol, i know, i know... thanks

You never even see Nigeria gangster , have u seen the guys that almost  de break their teeth just because they want to speak americana english. . Damn, especially the ones wey luck shine on them as in they manage to grab green card, those ones wey come from village. Am not trying to be stereotypical but mostly "IGBO guys ".


It get one yeye igbo guy wey talk say he want be like "usher"  because usher get plenty shoes u know what am saying. he never stay when he land yankee na like 3 months ooo na so this useless guy come de buy timbaland like one everyday . na so them de do. HE get about 30 for him room no exaggeration. I was like .........abeg take am easy o. How many shoes persin go wear ?

as for me ooo i am myself and i hate Nigerians that try to be gangstars they are frustrating and they endup not going home {naija} again till they

grow up and end up having a wasted life.

i met on guy that said he has being in this country since 1986 and he went back only twice or so and the last time he went was 1994 .

can u imagine that

he is married now but... he has piercing on his ears and all that and i am like what??

i said to my self "i rebuke that kind of life in Jesus name .......AMEN me wey i come this countyr last year going back don dey hungry me sef ...........

there is noting so spectacular about the country that will make me stay for that long now..................wetin

2nde what do u know? ne wayz no offence but i can sense dat ur a freshy...i dont live in america n i've neva been there but i know dis one guy dat lives in nyc slash wateva n his a blood so its jus not ladyj dat knows guyz like dat besides i do agree with her d nigerian ones r prolly fake (no offence)

I remember talking with a pakistani guy one day... he ask me if i was a ghanian, i said No. I told him that i was born and bred in Nigeria he was surprised. He now told me hoe he differentiates btw Ghanian and Nigerians .... He said "Nigerians (in America) are always Lousy and gangster wanna bes" While Ghanian Guys are cool Headed and Calm.  The problem is that while in nigeria so many Nigerians have unrealistic expectations of the way AMERICA was and are always shocked at the system (US) and because they lack thinking skills  they respond to the Us system by joining Gangs.

The beauty of this forum is that you're confronted with divers opinion on every subject, besides, thats the characteristics of most major opinion pages.

Now on that subject, I think the first presenter did commit an error by saying "most" nigerians.There are a few who think Gansterism is a way to show that they have actually arrived America.Where I live here, its Liberians who do that, not a few nigerians.We have doctors and engineers here at age 28.Once again, depends on your motivation before you came in here.Like on campuses in Nigeria we had secret cults, right? so a kid who was in cultism who have the tendercy of doing thesame here by joining a gang.We just pray they grow up before they got shot.again age and location is a factor.Personally I think its just senseless for a kid to leave Nigeria come here think of joining a gang..I mean..c'mon...but you know, you never know.

Hi Stranger... arguably by nature nigerians are more hyper compared to Ghanians in any facet of social endeavour.

Uh, Excuse me! We are all not gansta's. I'm an American Black, and your buddy just didnt go to places where most of us ,who are not, go. ty

yea some Nigerian want to turn to gangstas and all that not only in America but Uk and other countries far from home just to proof tough and they are 'ara oke' or summin, it aint good enough, it doesnt apply to all nigerians that leave home because me, i still remain {only skin and voice changed}, all they need to remember is 'never forget home' u gon go back someday {dead or alive}

Wow,

I have a friend in Naija....he is so carried away by what he sees in Ameriaca's Gangsta/Rap videos. He role models are Game and 50 cent. All he cares 'bout is leaving Naija to be 50 Cents' Disciple. But funny enough this guy is not a pinch rugged. I am cool, but more of the rugged type than him...I think its a FAD.

And on Cultism/Gangsta in Naija...these guys are not mentally and physically rugged, its just a feeling in their mind . You need to see a Cultist cry in my school last year when a Campus Marshall shot him in the leg during a battle we taught he was tough oh my!

Well, they all have to know that 50 Cent in US is Pasuma Wonder in Naija. So Any gangsta in US should be treated like an Agbero..infact they are. Cos Gangstas leave by drugs, robbing...thug life to be precise. And you know whatThuglife means OMO ITA. And Omo Ita dnt havea home nor do they have a future

Being mentally and physically rugged is diff from being a Gangsta. Like Socrates would say

Courage is different from Thoughtless Rashness

Soyinka's days.........is different from today's......

No be me talk dis one.

Naijaguru don talk...

I wonder why the emphasis is on Nigerian Guys. I asked a question and everybody is waving it. You said Nigerian guys are trying to be gangster, true, but not all are like that. Most of my friends here are all cool headed and all they are concerned about is how to make money which is pretty good.
My question again is why are Nigerians ladies getting to America and becoming something else, go to the club and see how spoilt they are but the ladies would never say anything to that, only the guys are in trouble.

Trying to address your question 2nde. I haven't seen that many Nigerian ladies as you mentioned going to clubs and wasting their time. Like most Nigerians abroad, they try to manage their resources, good to school specializing mostly in medical fields in order to help their relatives back home.

the only gangster trying to be are the youth. the JJC in America are trying so hard to be gangster, and its not gangster, is the hip pop world girl, this is the new generation, let them adapt to their surrounding don't hate the player boo hate the game.

cuz they wanna be what they wanna be . iight they could be anything they wanna. and people have differnt choices.

have been crip since when i was in nigeria so it my world "gangstar" . so as my son said don hate on us hate the game.

Trying to address your question pete. I haven't seen that many Nigerian ladies as you mentioned going to clubs and wasting their time. Like most Nigerians abroad, they try to manage their resources, good to school specializing mostly in medical fields in order to help their relatives back home.

I have been to clubs and parties and i see them all, i know what i am talking about. There are bunch of guys out there who go to school also, it may not be medical field(especially nursing) cos they reason far beyond working, working and working

SO many nigerian guys abroad.. turn into wannabe gangastas because they tryna fit in.

I don't blame most of them tho.. because our girls are actually in love with thugs. They go about following african american dudes. Shuu, our guys prolly feel, another way for them to get us back is by acting as wannabe's.

Most of them think, when they say "fxck, nigga, fxck, ma nigga".. that they all that. Sh!t makes me laugh my ass off. There are lotsa them in my school. See them throwing them pants on the floor, and tying du-rag up in they head. Daing it's funny.. but hey, i ain't hating.

You said the truth, like ur analysis. Not some people who are trying to hide from the fact

well, i wouldnt say that they try to be gangsta. but they do try to fit in. around my area(the east coast)., they try so hard to portray some thuggish image. some come to school, don't do their work, disrespect their teachers, join gangs e.t.c.

but such things have been happening in nigeria. not all nigerian guyz in america are like that.

I can't stand guys like that. but if you complain, you get called "hater".

beats me why anyone would want to be a thug.
It's not like anything good comes out of it.

one of my friends (he's not Nigerian though) actually thinks it's a cool thing his cousin owns a gun.
he's in some gang too. 90% of what he says are just plain swear words!



and yes, not all nigerian guys are like that.

he just dey show himself, leave am to display like the satellite

Yeah ,  so that african american guys won't dog them thats why , its all peer pressure really.

but not all of them ohh , before people start jumpn me.