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TRIBALISM AND ITS EFFECT ON PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY
TRIBALISM AND ITS EFFECT ON PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY
(NIGERIA AS A CASE STUDY)
In my motherland, my people suffer a mental illness that has been with us from before we existed as a country that is 1914, but this is not an article concerning history.
Truthfully, different ethnic groups in my country suffer from a bad behavior peculiar to them, for instance, the Yoruba believe that they are the wisest, the Hausa think that the country is theirs because they have a larger landmass, the Igbos cannot be trusted with money, the Tivs are perceived for their promiscuity, the Igbira are seen as stupid and a host of other backward thoughts most of my people possess.
Ironically, those thoughts fold inwards too as a Yoruba man may tend to not trust his tribal man because they tend to have a jealous hatred towards each other, therefore they attack each other, in more ways than one, one of which is spiritually, the deceit is scary like a locust plague so it is with other ethnic groups.
Coming to its effects on personal philosophy
Philosophy has been given a whole lot of definitions over the ages, one cannot say for certain that this is philosophy or that is philosophy under a definition for it changes.
As a country, as a group of people who are bounded together by laws, as individuals who are unavoidably connected to a piece of land that we indefinitely call our home, our perception of each other, affects our way of life, our mode of reasoning, our relationship with ourselves, simply put, our perception of each other affects our philosophy in more ways than one.
Upbringing/growth
It is admirable that we have different backgrounds hence the beauty of our diversity, though certain practices, our ideas that we carry may...
(NIGERIA AS A CASE STUDY)
In my motherland, my people suffer a mental illness that has been with us from before we existed as a country that is 1914, but this is not an article concerning history.
Truthfully, different ethnic groups in my country suffer from a bad behavior peculiar to them, for instance, the Yoruba believe that they are the wisest, the Hausa think that the country is theirs because they have a larger landmass, the Igbos cannot be trusted with money, the Tivs are perceived for their promiscuity, the Igbira are seen as stupid and a host of other backward thoughts most of my people possess.
Ironically, those thoughts fold inwards too as a Yoruba man may tend to not trust his tribal man because they tend to have a jealous hatred towards each other, therefore they attack each other, in more ways than one, one of which is spiritually, the deceit is scary like a locust plague so it is with other ethnic groups.
Coming to its effects on personal philosophy
Philosophy has been given a whole lot of definitions over the ages, one cannot say for certain that this is philosophy or that is philosophy under a definition for it changes.
As a country, as a group of people who are bounded together by laws, as individuals who are unavoidably connected to a piece of land that we indefinitely call our home, our perception of each other, affects our way of life, our mode of reasoning, our relationship with ourselves, simply put, our perception of each other affects our philosophy in more ways than one.
Upbringing/growth
It is admirable that we have different backgrounds hence the beauty of our diversity, though certain practices, our ideas that we carry may...
