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Rubbish!!!!

every generation believes the younger generation is in a worse position.
Just because you grew up without a television that means our children should not have a television?
The world is evolving, our parents, (I am almost 50) decried the fact we listened to hip hop & disco music. They didn't know shalamar, kool and the gang or public enemy, now my children listen to D'banj & P square. We watched videos, my children play video games, we read comics, now children are their own heroes in the comics (ie video games).

We all pretend to come from nuclear family - mummy, daddy and 3 to 5 children. Past generations made us believe that was the correct way, however in real life we all have half brothers and sisters. My mama pickin, my papa pickin, my papa wife, etc

When I was growing up there were 13 universities in Nigeria, now there are over 50 (albeit some of dubious quality)

The youth of today are the ones who are bring new technology and developments to society.

In my grandparents generation, the few who were encouraged to go to school, were encouraged to be teachers, court clerks and administrators. The next generation wanted their children to be doctors, lawyers or engineers, in the modern world we expect our children IT gurus, entertainers, top sports people, even a top newscaster.

So stop knocking the youth, the world is changing

cap28:

Cheers Bro.

Do you know that Psychological Operations or Psy Ops is a very important technique used by US and british intelligence services to defeat its enemies. The western media uses Psy Ops on its citizens as well as on target nations.

for those who dont know here is the definition:


Psychological warfare (PSYWAR), or the basic aspects of modern psychological operations (PSYOP), have been known by many other names or terms, including Psy Ops, Political Warfare, “Hearts and Minds”, and Propaganda.[1] Various techniques are used, by any set of groups, and aimed to influence a target audience's value systems, belief systems, emotions, motives, reasoning, or behavior. It is used to induce confessions or reinforce attitudes and behaviors favorable to the originator's objectives, and are sometimes combined with black operations or false flag tactics. Target audiences can be governments, organizations, groups, and individuals.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_warfare

chucky234: This post is rubbish and total waste of MB, your points are completely baseless.

The media and internet has always been part of life in western world and has nothing to do with how children fare because every child's behaviour is the reflection of the parents attitude,all it takes is healthy upbringing culture.

The first beauty pageant in the US took place in 1932 and has since become an annual event,the American,European and Indian movie industry peaked as early as late 30s but that has not stop Oxford,Harvard and other universites from producing top scientist,engineers,zoologist e.t.c

As a kid my father was working for an America company in the then South West Ikoyi and we had a satellite connected from the main building to our building in the staffs quarters.

Asia and Europe has more football fans and followers than Nigeria or Africa put together yet that has not stop the Asian from producing high-tech technicians and engineers that has become the back bone of the European and American economies.

In American and European countries they have many television and pay satellite channels since 1930s and that's why we can watch clips of events that took place far back as 1930 one of which is the first world cup hosted by Uruguay in 1930 and Olympics in 1932.
Nigeria only embrace the internet in 2002 the same year GSM was introduced into the country why multichoice (DSTV) started selling in Nigeria few years after but 7 years after people are attributing the poor academic performances of their wards to the media.

The first television station station and radio station in Nigeria came on board in 1994 while same cannot be said of American and European countries who have been enjoying those things way back,I remember watching Bill Cosby's family show in our TVs via my dad's company satellite wired to our house and that was far before the first TV station was launched in Nigeria.

The issue of abbreviation is also baseless because we have different form of communication each having their rules,in a formal communication its a crime to abbreviate words like You to 'u',alright to "AIIT",Love to "luv" but that cannot be said of informal communication where all forms of abbreviation are allowed as long as the receiver of the information understands what each abbreviated word stands for.

Such abbrevated words has been in use in western word since the begining of time but that has not in any way affected their writing skills,all states in US had their names abbrevated for easy use by her citizenry and you have New York (NYC),Maryland (MD),Miami (MI) e.t.c

Thousands of people are musicians and dancers in America and Europe in an industry that date way back,Nigeria music industry is just evolving and the good thing is that 70% of them are graduates.
In a nation with high unemployment rate such talent should be encouraged and combine with education,we have more educated and intelligent people today than in the 80s and 90s as more and more people are previlaged to go to school today.

My advice is that parents should nurture a healthy parenting culture so they can be able to pilot their childre's future effectively and positively,media and internet shouldn't be an excuse when parents fail.

cap28:

I am starting a blog soon, i will give you the details when its up and running.

cap28: isale gan !!how you dey?

where have you been?

faithin9ja:



Rubbish!!!!

every generation believes the younger generation is in a worse position.
Just because you grew up without a television that means our children should not have a television?
The world is evolving, our parents, (I am almost 50) decried the fact we listened to hip hop & disco music. They didn't know shalamar, kool and the gang or public enemy, now my children listen to D'banj & P square. We watched videos, my children play video games, we read comics, now children are their own heroes in the c










We all pretend to come from nuclear family - mummy, daddy and 3 to 5 children. Past generations made us believe that was the correct way, however in real life we all have half brothers and sisters. My mama pickin, my papa pickin, my papa wife, etc

When I was growing up there were 13 universities in Nigeria, now there are over 50 (albeit some of dubious quality)

The youth of today are the ones who are bring new technology and developments to society.

In my grandparents generation, the few who were encouraged to go to school, were encouraged to be teachers, court clerks and administrators. The next generation wanted their children to be doctors, lawyers or engineers, in the modern world we expect our children IT gurus, entertainers, top sports people, even a top newscaster.

So stop knocking the youth, the world is changing

chucky234: This post is rubbish and total waste of MB, your points are completely baseless.

The media and internet has always been part of life in western world and has nothing to do with how children fare because every child's behaviour is the reflection of the parents attitude,all it takes is healthy upbringing culture.

The first beauty pageant in the US took place in 1932 and has since become an annual event,the American,European and Indian movie industry peaked as early as late 30s but that has not stop Oxford,Harvard and other universites from producing top scientist,engineers,zoologist e.t.c

As a kid my father was working for an America company in the then South West Ikoyi and we had a satellite connected from the main building to our building in the staffs quarters.

Asia and Europe has more football fans and followers than Nigeria or Africa put together yet that has not stop the Asian from producing high-tech technicians and engineers that has become the back bone of the European and American economies.

In American and European countries they have many television and pay satellite channels since 1930s and that's why we can watch clips of events that took place far back as 1930 one of which is the first world cup hosted by Uruguay in 1930 and Olympics in 1932.
Nigeria only embrace the internet in 2002 the same year GSM was introduced into the country why multichoice (DSTV) started selling in Nigeria few years after but 7 years after people are attributing the poor academic performances of their wards to the media.

The first television station station and radio station in Nigeria came on board in 1994 while same cannot be said of American and European countries who have been enjoying those things way back,I remember watching Bill Cosby's family show in our TVs via my dad's company satellite wired to our house and that was far before the first TV station was launched in Nigeria.

The issue of abbreviation is also baseless because we have different form of communication each having their rules,in a formal communication its a crime to abbreviate words like You to 'u',alright to "AIIT",Love to "luv" but that cannot be said of informal communication where all forms of abbreviation are allowed as long as the receiver of the information understands what each abbreviated word stands for.

Such abbrevated words has been in use in western word since the begining of time but that has not in any way affected their writing skills,all states in US had their names abbrevated for easy use by her citizenry and you have New York (NYC),Maryland (MD),Miami (MI) e.t.c

Thousands of people are musicians and dancers in America and Europe in an industry that date way back,Nigeria music industry is just evolving and the good thing is that 70% of them are graduates.
In a nation with high unemployment rate such talent should be encouraged and combine with education,we have more educated and intelligent people today than in the 80s and 90s as more and more people are previlaged to go to school today.

My advice is that parents should nurture a healthy parenting culture so they can be able to pilot their childre's future effectively and positively,media and internet shouldn't be an excuse when parents fail.

cap28: I

China has overtaken the united states in terms of economic production and is now the economic engine of the world - they were only able to do this because of sustained opposition to western domination and subjugation.

Over 100 years earlier in 1900 the chinese fought against the combined forces of europe and america during the Boxer rebellion. the chinese suffered losses but huge lessons were learned and their experience in that war against europe and america spurred them on to the industrialisation of their country.

Iran is a great country, which has used its vast oil reserves to develop and educate its own people. The Iranians freed themselves from anglo american economic enslavement by overthrowing the Shah of Iran who was an american puppet installed in order to ensure that america would always have easy and cheap access to Iran's vast oil deposits. All of that was brought to an end when the courageous people of Iran revolted in 1979 and nationalised their oil industry. America and britain have never forgiven Iran for this and are now gearing up to destroy the country as they did to prosperous Libya. Research and development happens when a country is in a stable condition and can dedicate vast resources into research, Iran has been under seige from europe and america for over 30 years and therefore time and money that coudl be used for research and economic development has been channelled into military spending in order to defend the territorial integrity of a nation that could be attacked by europe or america at any time. America armed and financed Saddam Hussein of Iraq who launched a war against Iran which lasted for 8 years - the objective being that Iraq would destroy or at least weaken Iran making it easy for the americans and europeans to swoop in and over take Iran. Do you know the americans supplied saddam hussein with chemical weapons which he used on the iranian trooops? Despite all of this the Iranians succeeded in defeating the US backed Iraqi troops.

The worst part of all of this is that the US govt secretly sold arms to Iran during this war in other words they armed both sides in a conflict that they orchestrated.

The reason you queue for visas to the US and europe is because those places are now prosperous and wealthy as a result of the wealth that they stole from african countries beginning with slavery and continuing to this present day now in the form of neo liberal economic policies which say that a european has the right to reduce your own country to endless poverty using debt enslavement - you are now condemned to the life of a beggar - begging at their embassies all over the world in order to escape the misery and poverty that they caused in your country of origin. Your country's wealth now lies in the coffers of the western banks and corporations and if you are "fortunate" to get a visa to travel to any of those countries to live and work you will be condemned to a life of a servant - doing all of the jobs that their people don't want and still being treaed badly on top of it - that is their gift to you!

The leaders of Cuba, North Korea and Iran had the intelligence, foresight and vision to understand what european and american enslavement would mean for their citizens as they had already seen what had happened and is still happening to africans all over the world.

Where i live is neither here nor there, the important thing is that i am aware and awake.

Gudintent: me 2!

doe-eyed:
@ jp phillips.. kudos to your parents "and supporting staff" on a job well done.

I believe the intention of the original post was not to simply identify these distractions
but to also place emphasis on the lack of balance being observed.

Different reasons have been postulated here: from lack of good upbringing, poor
parental supervision and decaying societal moral fibre.

You attested to the fact that these games or privileges were given as
presents not as a way of life as seen in some parts,....for academic
brilliance.
So you all, had to apply yourselves.

But that attitude is slowly being eroded by a " work little or not at all but achieve great things" mentality.

As identified in an earlier post, the hard skills are being thrown out with the bath water
whilst the soft skills are over-celebrated.

I read some comments made by the youth with awe.....
Why work hard if I can get a rich man to pay for my needs and possibly my entire village!! at that.

Focus is on the superficial, not on developing the innerman..

Getting latest designer clothes and Brazilian hair ... not acquiring life skills to improve employment or entrepreneurial opportunities!!

Of course, I concur not everyone falls into this remit.


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cap28: OP you are so on point (excuse the pun)the fact that you have recognised that something is wrong tells me that you are very observant and intelligent.

The fact of the matter is that we live in an age now where young people are being targeted by the media at an unprecedented level. This is no coincidence, neither is it something that is unique to nigeria, this is also happening all over the western industrialised countries as well. The objective is to distract the future generation and keep them focused on irrelevancies and trivia rather than focusing on productive activities that can actually enable them to understand how their govts and the world work. Many young people today are so ignorant that many know nothing beyond the garbage that is spewed out by these junk tv channels that seem to have mysteriously proliferated in the last 15 years. As you have correctly noticed the craze now is for talent shows, reality tv, endless and mindless music videos - in short what you have now is the celebration and deification of banality, stup.idity, sex.ual promiscuity, ignorance and foolish.ness on a level never before seen. this is all going to create a generation of brain dead imbe.ciles whose sole preoccupation in life will be enjoyment with no hope or vision of how to survive in a world which is rapidly becoming more and more cut throat.

If you look at countries that have sheilded their indigenes from western influences like China, Iran and many islamic countries you will find that the moral fibre of their societies is still intact, what you have in nigeria is a complete saturation of our air waves with western imported junk which is going to be our downfall. Why are our youths more interested in singing competitions and reality shows than research and technology? Why are our youths politically ignorant when they live on a continent that is currently under US and european military occupation via USafricom? why is it that our youths do not understand what neo colonialism is when most african govts spend more on debt servicing than they spend on health care or education?

I remember reading on a south african website some months back that DSTV (which by the way is run and owned by white south africans) was set up to numb and dumb down the minds of young black south africans to ensure that they would never become as politically aware as their parents, in doing so this new generation of politically ignorant young people would become harmless robots who would never ever become a threat to europe or america(their masters), i can now see how prescient that statement was because all i see on these numerous african tv channels are an endless supply of talent shows, beauty contests, reality shows ad nauseam.

People please wake up lest this upcoming generation end up worse off than their parents whose lives have already been destroyed as a result of the economic enslavement by europe and america.

dasparrow:

Cap28, you are one of the few forumites I respect on nairaland because you are always on point with your posts and you express my sentiments to the 'T'. I started noticing what the western media is all about several years ago. I then suddenly stopped watching television though I kept paying for cable. One day, I just decided it is waste of money and disconnected my cable and gave away my TV. The other day, my neighbor was asking me if I would like a television for free. I told her 'NO, I don't watch crappy TV programming anymore'.

The most frustrating thing is that most of our people are not enlighthened. They are not aware that the reason they are in abject poverty is not only because of poor leadership but also because we have sell outs for leaders who dance to the tune of the IMF and world bank. Migrating to the western world does not always help matters either because rascism and downright in-your-face bigotry will leave you working your fingers to the bones for peanuts sometimes. America for instance has succeeded in enslaving most of her citizens and residents in debt, all kinds of debt. From credit card debt to college loan debts, to car debts to mortgage debts, you name it. The other day, I was reading on yahoo how many american college graduates cannot start a family of their own because they are in $60,000 or $70,000 or more in college loan debts. It's a worrisome situation. Signs of the end times.

dasparrow:

Cap28, you are one of the few forumites I respect on nairaland because you are always on point with your posts and you express my sentiments to the 'T'. I started noticing what the western media is all about several years ago. I then suddenly stopped watching television though I kept paying for cable. One day, I just decided it is waste of money and disconnected my cable and gave away my TV. The other day, my neighbor was asking me if I would like a television for free. I told her 'NO, I don't watch crappy TV programming anymore'.

The most frustrating thing is that most of our people are not enlighthened. They are not aware that the reason they are in abject poverty is not only because of poor leadership but also because we have sell outs for leaders who dance to the tune of the IMF and world bank. Migrating to the western world does not always help matters either because rascism and downright in-your-face bigotry will leave you working your fingers to the bones for peanuts sometimes. America for instance has succeeded in enslaving most of her citizens and residents in debt, all kinds of debt. From credit card debt to college loan debts, to car debts to mortgage debts, you name it. The other day, I was reading on yahoo how many american college graduates cannot start a family of their own because they are in $60,000 or $70,000 or more in college loan debts. It's a worrisome situation. Signs of the end times.

chief batiatus: @ Cap28, I don't know why you are so full of crap? This is the second worthless argument you are advancing, please ladies and gentlemen, the whites are not our problem, america and britain have nothing to do with the evils bedeviLling us oh! Sani abacha that looted more than any west african leader in history was he a friend to america? Babangida the grand destroyer of our economy how many times have you heard him speak good of america? Is farouk Lawan an american? The director in pension office that stole close to 100 billion -alh sani teidi is he american? -Infact as a neighbor I know him to be anti-western right from time! When NECO was created with an aim of diluting the standard who were the sponsors? Are they americans? All the oil companies caught looting our subsidy is there an american there? Are u aware the american govt has already jailed their nationals involved in the haliburton scandal while the nigerians involved are still part of the lawmakers and governors? Whatever you are reading or whatever association that is leading u towards crappy statements then you better beware cap28

Azumy: thumbsup you are so on point! I got captivated

oc2fish: @Cap28, Please stop blaming others for our fault our leaders refuse to develop the country when they have the oppturnity and all you can do is to blame some one elese. The leaders failed us and because of the current issue (Faruok Gate) they have lost the remaining trust we all know that all of them are looking for ways to defraud Nigerian by one way or the other. The tarriost of this wourld normally give this kind of reason killing innocent people while American value the life of her citizen.

MR CAP28 PLEASE BEWARE OF TERRIOR GROUP CONTACTING YOU BECAUSE OF THIS LEVEL OF HATE.

Nigerian leaders caused our problem and not America or Europe

apocalypse:

Give yourself three slaps for the tripe you just wrote here

pauloman:

This your post is so irritating and reeks of bad parenting attitude ! You are the likes that find it hard to discipline your children by encouraging them to be mediocres in the society.!!

tete7000:
The main reason for failed family life is with the parents. All these reason adduced above can not cause problems if parents are responsible and serve as good role models for their children. Technology like phone, tv and the rest have their advantages which have outweigh the disadvantage. Parents need only to ensure their children are brought up to appreciate the positive side of it and not ruin their lives with the technologies.

jp philips:

don't mind the poster, failed parents want to hide behind technological advancement to shield their failure.

@ cap 28

i tell you what, America is too busy to bother their head with Nigerian youths whose parents by default have "zombied" their well being through poor parenting.

who are these kids that the poster is blaming DSTV and black berry for their woes?

the same kids that sit tight in air conditioned cars on traffic every morning looking obese and over fed, that cannot even take proper 3 steps without staggering? armed to the teeth with different sizes of food flask even as teenagers? how do you expect such pet of a child to be useful?
this is a child that most likely has failed the previous term and the parents still treat him like a king, why wont he fail again?

during our time, you will only have the privilege of going to school in popsy's Peugeot 504 or mumsy's Volkswagen beetle if you make an average score of 70% and above. anything short of that is trekking for the rest of the term.

i can still recall vividly when i registered for jss1 at 11yrs, i was given directions to travel to another state to register my self in my new school, i thought i was alone in the world not until i got there to see 3 of my primary school mates who equally came on their own, a hand full of other boys who came with parents, the school being so kind registered us first before the ones that came with their parents so we wont stay long in the queue on that sunny afternoon, that was our own days which i am very proud of, liken it to what is obtainable today.

both parents will clear their schedule because a son of 22 years is sitting for Jamb exam, after the stup!d "write well we are with you" hugs outside, the "pet" of a son is escorted into the exam hall armed with two different status mercenaries. on the right flank is a university undergraduate while on the left is a polytechnic undergraduate after spending millions giving him different models of private tutors and cash to "sort" his way out in case of emergency. should we not be ashamed? how can such a son make it in life? how do you expect him to be useful?

during our days we are told that matriculation was a step to the big world, i can recall when i gained admission into the university, my popsy bought me a gold Rolex wristwatch (still in my collection till date) and that was all, when i mentioned matriculation, he said it is easier to enter but graduating with a good grade is only worth celebrating, that he owes me convocation not matric. i accepted my faith and moved on.

conversely, our present day parents are a total waste, a son that could not pass jamb on 5 sittings is escorted with a cultural dance, orchestra, fan fare to a private university where the parents spend almost a million bucks to buy admissions for them. in a very colorful ceremony, the waste of a son is deposited with his block head in the arms of the school authorities, tell me, why wont such a child join cult? knowing fully well he has the support of his parents if anything goes wrong.

today, parents encourage their kids to give birth at home with impunity while still under their control, in our days, an attempt to sleep with a man under your father's roof is outright disowning let alone coming back with fruit of recklessness.

parents no longer frown at having sons and daughters that were rusticated for improper conduct from the school, they go home and tell their wards that they had a problem and that is the end, parents will immediately mobilize resources to start looking for another admission.

A 25 year old son (an over grown baby elephant) comes home to demand 400k for books and the modern parents will oblige without even asking questions or even making an attempt to verify the veracity of the stories sold to them,5 yrs on he comes back as a drug addict or armed robber. why wont he have a gun? when your cavalier as a parent has already paid for one. then you take him for "deliverance" in a celestial church.

during our time, popsy will write to the school with his official letter head demanding for your previous year result,required text books and school fees for the next academic year from the school admin, paste it on his reading table, for every demand you make at home, there will be a cross reference of what he has with the story you are selling, God help you if there is any discrepancy.the list is endless

it is a shame!! the modern parents have failed woefully. it is the senseless decisions taken by the modern parents that marooned the future of their kids, DSTV can never take the fall.

doublecross: parents are not supposed to be blamed. you all should put the blame on the society. the parents have to clear bills. the whole problem lies on the society and a very week governing policy. Our Governments are a bunch of trash.