If you were at some location and met someone who you feel is Nigerian (either by looks or dressing or language etc), will you say hi to them?
I've been in so many of these kinds of awkward situations and don't know whether to talk to them or not.   

I know this depends on people too. some do it, some don't.
so what do you do?

Seriously no arrogance intended, but when I see black peeps, I don't say 'hi', I just go by MY business. Maybe my mom equal yea but my equal, I do not even give them a second look cus most of them are usually  up themselves.

rokiatu:

Seriously no arrogance intended, but when I see black peeps, I don't say 'hi', I just go by MY business. Maybe my mom equal yea but my equal, I do not even give them a second look cus most of them are usually up themselves.

Then from this January, change that crap mentality.

iice:

Most often, yes i approach and say hi. Ask where they are from? (i can guess but cannot be absolutely certain sometimes that they Nigerians - besides we get those who like to claim other places )

You have really done justice to this thread.

When I see Blacks I usually don't say hi first, I just bohn but on few occasions when I guessed some of these people are Nigerians, I kept staring but was too shy(?) to go closer and say Hi.
This year sha, I must get me a Nigerian friend.

Before I used to, but now, I don't and the main reason is majority of Nigerians I met abroad aren't friendly, especially to the Northerners. Once I tell them Im from the North, they just frown and start pumping their faces and chest with some kind of air of arrongance and intimidation. Some even had the nerve to ask me how did I get here? Is my father one of the thieves in Nigerian Gov't?

Tsiya:

Before I used to, but now, I don't and the main reason is majority of Nigerians I met abroad aren't friendly, especially to the Northerners. Once I tell them Im from the North, they just frown and start pumping their faces and chest with some kind of air of arrongance and intimidation. Some even had the nerve to ask me how did I get here? Is my father one of the thieves in Nigerian Gov't?

hhaaaaa can i meet you please
I've never met a northerner randomly!! I only know one who i'm good friends with because we school together but I don't know any other!!

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People are not what you think they are by the time you get close to them or want to know them better maybe in the process it might cause you so many harm. So I watch from distance, evaluate before getting involve

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@tsiya, i think the prblm s that u are seeing the reflection of ur own personality in others. Pls do not withdrawn nto ur shell bcus of this! If anybody rebuf u, laugh t off and try another, soon u wil discover a very frindly southern nigerian. Try both sexes though, hahaha,

Oladiran:

@tsiya, i think the prblm s that u are seeing the reflection of your own personality in others. Pls do not withdrawn nto your shell bcus of this! If anybody rebuf u, laugh t off and try another, soon u wil discover a very frindly southern nigerian. Try both sexes though, hahaha,

erm. . . meaning?

Tsiya:

Before I used to, but now, I don't and the main reason is majority of Nigerians I met abroad aren't friendly, especially to the Northerners. Once I tell them Im from the North, they just frown and start pumping their faces and chest with some kind of air of arrongance and intimidation. Some even had the nerve to ask me how did I get here? Is my father one of the thieves in Nigerian Gov't?

There's some truth here. . . northerners tend to keep away from southerners and vice versa at least here in London, for whatever reasons I don't know or for some obvious reasons. There's this edgy suspicion that's felt between the two groups. Even when I was in Uni here, it was mostly southerners to themselves and northerners to themselves. There was almost non-intermingling between the two groups.

dem_people:

There's some truth here. . . northerners tend to keep away from southerners and vice versa at least here in London, for whatever reasons I don't know or for some obvious reasons. There's this edgy suspicion that's felt between the two groups. Even when I was in Uni here, it was mostly southerners to themselves and northerners to themselves. There was almost non-intermingling between the two groups.

You don't know the reason? Take a time and read Nigerian Newspapers, the Nairaland and also try to listen to Nigerians speaking about Nigeria's problems. It is always directed to the THE NORTH. The North said this___The North did this____The Northerners this_______the Northerners that_____ and matters have not being helped by current so called Northern consensus candidate____ we are all lump together as the collective source of our problems_____this might be some of the reasons.

Oladiran:

@tsiya, i think the prblm s that u are seeing the reflection of your own personality in others. Pls do not withdrawn nto your shell bcus of this! If anybody rebuf u, laugh t off and try another, soon u wil discover a very frindly southern nigerian. Try both sexes though, hahaha,

Im not seeing the reflection of my personality. As human, we have humility and pride in us. No matter how humble a person is, there is a limit to how many rejections that person can take before pride kick in.

tpia*:



haha funny, no offence.

bush people.


@ topic

depends on the context in which we're meeting.

Bush people?? who?

Jenifa_:


hhaaaaa can i meet you please
I've never met a northerner randomly!! I only know one who i'm good friends with because we school together but I don't know any other!!

Tsiya:

You don't know the reason? Take a time and read Nigerian Newspapers, the Nairaland and also try to listen to Nigerians speaking about Nigeria's problems. It is always directed to the THE NORTH. The North said this___The North did this____The Northerners this_______the Northerners that_____ and matters have not being helped by current so called Northern consensus candidate____ we are all lump together as the collective source of our problems_____this might be some of the reasons.

Of course I very much knew the reason(s) but decided not to explicitly state it/them in other for my response not to be long. I think generally, Nigerians are always suspicious of other Nigerians who don't originate from the same region as them.

tsiya, cool temper. yea nigerians are generally suspicious ppl. Are you muslim? northern culture also seem to be a bit distinct from south. unless you lived in the south. did you meet yoruba or igbo people? I would think yoruba people will be less suspicious.

Tsiya:



Bush people?? who?

bush = ignorant. so she's referring to them as ignorant.

dem_people:

Of course I very much knew the reason(s) but decided not to explicitly state it/them in other for my response not to be long. I think generally, Nigerians are always suspicious of other Nigerians who don't originate from the same region as them.

Wonderful

Jenifa_:

tsiya, cool temper. yea nigerians are generally suspicious ppl. Are you muslim? northern culture also seem to be a bit distinct from south. unless you lived in the south. did you meet yoruba or igbo people? I would think yoruba people will be less suspicious.

bush = ignorant. so she's referring to them as ignorant.

In Northern Nigeria, there is large population of Southerner-yoruba and igbo and we don't have problem with them. The ones that live outside Nigeria and those that never left the southern part of the country are the ones that we have problem with. Most have little knowledge of the people up north other than propaganda news that potrays us as some kind of people with alien culture separate from Nigeria. The North is this___The North is that____. But what they always fail to say is that the north is 2/3rd of Nigeria in terms of land and at least more than half of the population as such we are should not refered to as another group as if we are a tiny component of Nigeria.

^ yea it's really sad. There probably isn't too much interaction between the groups that's why. I think there should be more hausas in lagos so that interaction will increase. most nigerians abroad have lived in lagos or a larger city and that's where they get exposed to ppl of different tribes. ie.a yoruba becomes friends with a igbo etc.
but abuja is becoming the "it" city now so things might change in the near future. there will be more exposure and therefore less ignorance.

do you speak pidgin?
excuse my ignorance but I know very little about hausas. Just never interacted with many of them b4. and I think that's the problem. But I definitely will not be rude if I meet one. in fact I will be more excited.

rokiatu:

Seriously no arrogance intended, but when I see black peeps, I don't say 'hi', I just go by MY business. Maybe my mom equal yea but my equal, I do not even give them a second look cus most of them are usually  up themselves.

When was the last time you traveled out of Lagos?


See her talking like she has ever seen the inside of a plane!

Sweetie, let me be.

Jenifa_:

^ yea it's really sad. There probably isn't too much interaction between the groups that's why. I think there should be more hausas in lagos so that interaction will increase. most nigerians abroad have lived in lagos or a larger city and that's where they get exposed to ppl of different tribes. ie.a yoruba becomes friends with a igbo etc.
but abuja is becoming the "it" city now so things might change in the near future. there will be more exposure and therefore less ignorance.

do you speak pidgin?
excuse my ignorance but I know very little about hausas. Just never interacted with many of them b4. and I think that's the problem. But I definitely will not be rude if I meet one. in fact I will be more excited.

Northerners doesn't speak the pidgin spoken in the south. We mostly prefer communicating in Hausa. English is reserved for serious official stuff and is mostly found in paper only.

If u meet a hausa person, speak Hausa

Tsiya:

Northerners doesn't speak the pidgin spoken in the south. We mostly prefer communicating in Hausa. English is reserved for serious official stuff and is mostly found in paper only.

If u meet a hausa person, speak Hausa

erm nagode?

Jenifa_:


erm nagode?

Meaning thank you!!!!!!

hhaha so aboki, what is "how are you" ?

Jenifa_:

hhaha so aboki, what is "how are you" ?

Why are u calling me Aboki?

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tpia*:

^^ aboki means friend.

she's not one of the ones attacking northerners.

of course I know means friends but it is derogatory.

It is just like a white man calling black Nigger in America

or Hausa calling Igbo Inyamiri

Moreover Im not Hausa

Tsiya:

of course I know means friends but it is derogatory.

It is just like a white man calling black Nigger in America

or Hausa calling Igbo Inyamiri

Moreover Im not Hausa

wow thats interesting. I've been called aboki by an hausa man before. should I be offended?

what does inyamiri mean?
and what ethnicity are you?

Jenifa_:

wow thats interesting. I've been called aboki by an hausa man before. should I be offended?

what does inyamiri mean?
and what ethnicity are you?

Why are you so clueless on everything Nigerian?

You ask very very stupid questions?

I doubt you are a Nigerian?

Every thread, same thing. You always ask questions 5 yr olds can answer in a jiffy, yet you claim you are Nigerian,

^ you are obviously very seriously obsessed with me to be following me around on every topic on this forum. can you mind your business and leave me alone for once?