1. That Africa is a country.

2. That we all speak a dialect called African. (Like WTF??)

3. That we have lions, tigers and bears - oh my!

4. That we are all naked and running around with the above. (I wish)

5. That we all have AIDS.

6. And now, that we all have Ebola.

7. That all Africans are acquainted with all other Africans, regardless of country, state or city. Oh wait - #1 comes back to mind.

8. That we live in trees - how would that even work?

9. That we are all BLACK as charcoal with afro type hair. (Have u seen Tonto?)

10. That those of us who no longer live there are so HAPPY to be abroad. (visit Nairaland)



A few things my fellow students said when I was in boarding school in
the USA:


1. "Aren't you supposed to be really skinny with your ribs showing since you're African?"

2. "Don't you have AIDS though?"

3. "Is that mark from when you fought with a lion?" (I'm not kidding)

4. "Do you know my friend Paul? He is from Africa too!"

5. "But you're not really African like those wild people on tv. You're more like us."

Like what? human? Lols.


So Dear Foreigners...
If you know nothing about the African continent. Know that beyond the negative, often inaccurate and incomplete images and stories the media shows - we really are just people, like you.

Source: http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-things-foreigners-believe-about-Africa-but-Africans-know-are-laughably-way-off

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And as for stereotype, they think most africans smell. Maybe true, cosquite a number of us sweat a lot and don't make use of that invention called deodorant.

lmao! insulting, but funny.
I hate it when they say stuff like that.
cos the only difference btwn them and us is skin color!! my opinion tho.

first time i ever chilled wif a white chick, i heard "dont you guys, like wear less over there though"??

made my blood boil.....but i remembered what chimamanda said in ted talks, so i replied

"arent all americans lazy and uncultured??"

we never talked again.

Good riddance!!!!

qbd2:
And as for stereotype, they think most africans smell. Maybe true, cosquite a number of us sweat a lot and don't make use of that invention called deodorant.

C'mon that's not true at all. By the way, are u African?

EroticAngelina:
lmao! insulting, but funny.
I hate it when they say stuff like that.
cos the only difference btwn them and us is skin color!! my opinion tho.

You are perfectly on point. dazall!

qbd2:
And as for stereotype, they think most africans smell. Maybe true, cosquite a number of us sweat a lot and don't make use of that invention called deodorant.

Well most whites smell like wet nasty dogs.

liveyourlife:


C'mon that's not true at all. By the way, are u African?

Dats not true? Hmm. Yes I'm african and dats just something oi know and its better we b frank with one another nd change things.
Like I said earlier its a stereotype.

Lmao. That's very true.

Unfortunately, the media isn't helping to portray the true image of Africa to the west. All they see in the news are images of starving and dying children, poverty, wars, animals on animal planet and nat geo wild, etc. Many of them are born and raised with this belief and it comes as a big shock to them when they get to learn the truth.

This is stupidity believing the whole of Africa to be a country? I do know they know just little about the African continent but what I didn't know is how high to the moon their level of ignorance could get.

Or this is probably exaggerated!

aim5:


Well most whites smell like wet nasty dogs.

haha. :-) Which kind beef u dey chop on their head?

liveyourlife:


haha. :-) Which kind beef u dey chop on their head?

It's true some of them smell like wet dogs, especially in the rain..

kemiola89:
This is stupidity believing the whole of Africa to be a country? I do know they know just little about the African continent but what I didn't know is how high to the moon their level of ignorance could get.

Or this is probably exaggerated!

My guess is that you have never travelled out to America or Europe before. Some Americans think that Africa is a country and Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya are cities in the country. LOL! Until you travel out and get to experience the massive ignorance about Africa then you will know.

kemiola89:
This is stupidity believing the whole of Africa to be a country? I do know they know just little about the African continent but what I didn't know is how high to the moon their level of ignorance could get.

Or this is probably exaggerated!

lol

No need for irritation, just flow with the ignorance and add more ridiculous tales to it.

bigfrancis21:


My guess is that you have never travelled out to America or Europe before. Some Americans think that Africa is a country and Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya are cities in the country. LOL! Until you travel out and get to experience the massive ignorance about Africa then you will know.

Very hilarious but sadly true. And they call themselves "enlightened'.

liveyourlife:


Very hilarious but sadly true. And they call themselves "enlightened'.

Trust me, I've lived in the US for most of my life and the vast majority of Americans are just painfully ignorant.

aim5:


Trust me, I've lived in the US for most of my life and the vast majority of Americans are just painfully ignorant.

My next topic should be Misconceptions Africans Have About Americans and Europeans.

And to imagine that our African fathers of old thought they were gods to the extent of putting their hands they used to shake Europeans in their pockets for weeks. (How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - Walter Rodney).

Thank God for the World Wars. They were really eye openers for the Black man.

liveyourlife:


My next topic should be Misconceptions Africans Have About Americans and Europeans.

And to imagine that our African fathers of old thought they were gods to the extent of putting their hands they used to shake Europeans in their pockets for weeks. (How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - Walter Rodney).

Thank God for the World Wars. They were really eye openers for the Black man.

It's not a misconception, most White Americans are indeed very ignorant.

aim5:


It's not a misconception, most White Americans are indeed very ignorant.

I didn't mean what you said was a misconception. I am talking about misconceptions Africans have in general that the white man is Superior. :-)

qbd2:
And as for stereotype, they think most africans smell. Maybe true, cosquite a number of us sweat a lot and don't make use of that invention called deodorant.

But they smell too
and I for one, cannot stand the rank smell of people when I am underground

I think there is a distinct smell associated with the different races...
When I am in the gym, the ooze from the very different skin types around me...always make me wish I am making a bad stench too
Like, I would just be literally wishing..."Lawd! I hope these people cannot stand the otherness of my smell, I hope my sweat smells really horrible to them the way theirs does to me"
True. I just hold my breath. A lot. The one that just about kills me is the white smell

I keep wishing I could meet a white or Asian person that I could ask "do I smell? Badly? How bad is this smell? Cos you smell pretty, really bad to me!" A person that would not not get all politically correct and instead would tell me the truth of whether I smell to them too
And oh yeah...a few days ago, I believe I could smell the stew I made on my scarf! True story! I wondered what it would be doing to my neighbours on the train, and I was glad at the thought that it could be a bad smell to them!
My little way of rebelling against ...well...a lot

I swear, there is no hatred for any race in this post
If you people don't know the smell I talk about, ignore this post
Maybe I have dysnosmia....or olfactory hallucinations

milychocs:



But they smell too
and I for one, cannot stand the rank smell of people when I am underground

I think there is a distinct smell associated with the different races...
When I am in the gym, the ooze from the very different skin types around me...always make me wish I am making a bad stench too
Like, I would just be literally wishing..."Lawd! I hope these people cannot stand the otherness of my smell, I hope my sweat smells really horrible to them the way theirs is to me"
True. I just hold my breath. A lot. The one that just about kills me is the white smell

I keep wishing I could meet a white or Asian person that I could ask "do I smell? Badly? How bad is this smell? Cos you smell pretty, really bad to me!" A person that would not not get all politically correct and instead would tell me the truth of whether I smell to them too
And oh yeah...a few days ago, I believe I could smell the stew I made on my scarf! True story! I wondered what it would be doing to my neighbours on the train, and I was glad at the thought that it could be a bad smell to them!
My little way of rebelling against ...well...a lot

I swear, there is no hatred for any race in this post
If you people don't know the smell I talk about, ignore this post
Maybe I have dysnosmia....or olfactory hallucinations

lolllllllllllllll. Ur a joker.

Filashade:



lolllllllllllllll. Ur a joker.

yea. so hilarious






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milychocs:



But they smell too
and I for one, cannot stand the rank smell of people when I am underground

I think there is a distinct smell associated with the different races...
When I am in the gym, the ooze from the very different skin types around me...always make me wish I am making a bad stench too
Like, I would just be literally wishing..."Lawd! I hope these people cannot stand the otherness of my smell, I hope my sweat smells really horrible to them the way theirs does to me"
True. I just hold my breath. A lot. The one that just about kills me is the white smell

I keep wishing I could meet a white or Asian person that I could ask "do I smell? Badly? How bad is this smell? Cos you smell pretty, really bad to me!" A person that would not not get all politically correct and instead would tell me the truth of whether I smell to them too
And oh yeah...a few days ago, I believe I could smell the stew I made on my scarf! True story! I wondered what it would be doing to my neighbours on the train, and I was glad at the thought that it could be a bad smell to them!
My little way of rebelling against ...well...a lot

I swear, there is no hatred for any race in this post
If you people don't know the smell I talk about, ignore this post
Maybe I have dysnosmia....or olfactory hallucinations

when i first got here, the smell bothered me to no end.....
i think we all really do smell...

sarmiie:





when i first got here, the smell bothered me to no end.....
i think we all really do smell...

Lol

So true about the oyinbo smell,its like a mixture of stale cigarettes and other nastiness.

And dey keep tellin us we dont read?

Because they're dumb and ignorant.

Their govt should budget money into their education program to fund Afican history with their existing school board curriculum.

lmao! insulting, but funny.
I hate it when they say stuff like that.
cos
the only difference btwn them and us is skin color!! my opinion tho.

I would also consider intellectual capabilities. Most blacks have lower IQ(my opinion). While most whites have higher intellects as a result of their belief in almost anything and other factors of course. Religion is Healthy but truthfully, Africans restrict some possibilities under their religious ideology. The first step of becoming like the whites is believing in the possibilities of the impossible. Why are we stagnant whereas the so called SECULAR nations thrive? Belief, selflessness and patriotism creates a true civilization. And for now, Africa is not any of that. Think deeper.

lmao! insulting, but funny.
I hate it when they say stuff like that.
cos the only difference btwn them and us is skin color!! my opinion tho.

The op didn't say what color the Americans were so how do you know their skin is different from yours?

xamuell:
I would also consider intellectual capabilities. Most blacks have lower IQ(my opinion). While most whites have higher intellects as a result of their belief in almost anything and other factors of course. Religion is Healthy but truthfully, Africans restrict some possibilities under their religious ideology. The first step of becoming like the whites is believing in the possibilities of the impossible. Why are we stagnant whereas the so called SECULAR nations thrive? Belief, selflessness and patriotism creates a true civilization. And for now, Africa is not any of that. Think deeper.

You're an idiot.

Ewuro4:
Because they're dumb and ignorant.

Their govt should budget money into their education program to fund Afican history with their existing school board curriculum.

The American government doesn't care about Africa or Africans other than the resources she can steal from mother Africa.