Negative Stereotype About Nigerians

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English 1010 10/06/14 THE NEGATIVE STEREOTYPE ABOUT NIGERIAN BEHAVIOR There are lots of crappy stuffs that are perceived to be typical Nigerian behavior that are going round all over the world. Most of it are messed up and annoying and I could hear it on daily basis either directly or indirectly. While I might choose to overlook some of it, some particular notion must and will be mentioned because they are misleading to non-Nigerians and are embarrassing to any decent Nigerians. So here are some basic truth about Nigerian stereotypes that are misleading to non-Nigerians. For instance, most non-Nigerians believe that Nigeria is not a developed country and that we live in the thick forest and jungles with wild animals and some also believe that we live with Apes and Monkey and that we go around with no clothes on. I want such people to go and browse the internet to find out about Nigerians because this is the 21st century and Nigeria is a developed country with beautiful houses, cars and our environment also clean with beautiful living there. Some people can’t even accept the fact that Nigeria is a country in a continent called Africa. To clear things up we don’t live in the forest, we have our own houses which are of different variety like mansions which are for the people of the higher caliber, the middle caliber duplex and we also have our own ghettos for the lower caliber which I know every country also have. I know you must have seen some pretty bad stuffs about us on TV but you do know better than to believe everything shown there. Nigerians live a normal and good life. Furthermore, non-Nigerians believe that we are into money fraud: popularly known as “419”or “yahoo scamming also noticed that non-Nigerians clutch their wallet to themselves when they see a Nigerian in sight. Even though we use internet in Nigeria not all Nigerians are exposed to internet

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