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Re: Yankee: through the eyes of a village boy. by NONNYG: 2:55pm On May 17, 2017 |
PDPGuy:pm me her digit ![]() |
Re: Yankee: through the eyes of a village boy. by lionlee216(m): 3:14pm On May 17, 2017 |
NONNYG: Lol why you run from uae to yankee. Dey enjoy your arab money |
Re: Yankee: through the eyes of a village boy. by PDPGuy: 3:42pm On May 17, 2017 |
NONNYG:Ask ESPN for her digits. ![]() 10 Likes |
Re: Yankee: through the eyes of a village boy. by Nobody: 6:58pm On May 17, 2017 |
FrankNetter:nigga post things.. We need to see things 2 Likes |
Re: Yankee: through the eyes of a village boy. by Tunjinodaysoff(m): 8:05pm On May 17, 2017 |
please who knows how long ETA form 9098 takes to be certified at DOL after signing. 2 Likes |
Re: Yankee: through the eyes of a village boy. by abduldope(m): 9:16am On May 18, 2017 |
smithsydny:Seconded 3 Likes |
Re: Yankee: through the eyes of a village boy. by alfonso36(m): 12:35pm On May 18, 2017 |
abduldope:thirded 1 Like |
Re: Yankee: through the eyes of a village boy. by FrankNetter(m): 12:48pm On May 18, 2017 |
I go knack una gist today. Stay tuned ![]() 8 Likes |
Re: Yankee: through the eyes of a village boy. by sobastical: 1:05pm On May 18, 2017 |
smithsydny: You sef dey here? ! lol I can even see some bosses here. ..uhmm |
Re: Yankee: through the eyes of a village boy. by cedar3: 4:39pm On May 18, 2017 |
FrankNetter:we full ground |
Re: Yankee: through the eyes of a village boy. by Darey00(m): 5:31pm On May 18, 2017 |
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Re: Yankee: through the eyes of a village boy. by PDPGuy: 7:13pm On May 18, 2017 |
Re: Yankee: through the eyes of a village boy. by electronic(m): 7:41pm On May 18, 2017 |
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Re: Yankee: through the eyes of a village boy. by ToluexCA(m): 7:42pm On May 18, 2017 |
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Re: Yankee: through the eyes of a village boy. by FrankNetter(m): 10:52pm On May 18, 2017 |
Everest1989: Bro, you can make a LOT of money by being a mechanic or panel beater here bro. Mexicans have totally dominated that market. 15 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Yankee: through the eyes of a village boy. by FrankNetter(m): 10:52pm On May 18, 2017 |
ToluexCA: Thanks man. 10 Likes |
Re: Yankee: through the eyes of a village boy. by FrankNetter(m): 11:01pm On May 18, 2017 |
Gist So, at my Burger king work place, there's this really quiet black dude. Sticks to his business, does his job and leaves. Some days back, I had the opportunity to work with him, and he surprisingly struck up a conversation. Turns out the brother is/was quite read and does a lot of personal research. Word had filtered around that "oh-bi" wasn't from around here, that he's from Nigeria. So he did some digging up into "nigerian culture". While speaking with him, the first word that caught my attention was the number of times he used the word "corrupt" 28 Likes |
Re: Yankee: through the eyes of a village boy. by austino677(m): 11:14pm On May 18, 2017 |
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Re: Yankee: through the eyes of a village boy. by NONNYG: 1:15am On May 19, 2017 |
lionlee216:dem no dey stand one place dey watch masquerade |
Re: Yankee: through the eyes of a village boy. by FrankNetter(m): 2:47am On May 19, 2017 |
I was wiping down the tops, counters and kitchen stuff, when the dude (who was sweeping) pulled up beside me, he was like "obi, you not from around here, are you?" I replied, "na bro, Im from Africa" (most people here think africa is a country, so its easier for me to say Im from africa to avoid too much talk). Suprisingly, he asked, "what country bro?" I replied "Nigeria". "You miss home?" I replied "Yeah man, its a great place with nice weather and lovely people" He asked what I was doing there before i came over, I told him, next thing he asked was "if you got your life going over there, why come here?" I replied "things are not so good over there bro". Next thing he said was "How bro, everybody corrupt?" At that point, I didn't even know what to say, or how to start jumping into this conversation ______________ see eh, you do not know how much buhari's utterances have damaged our image internationally. How do you start defending your country when your president has gone on international television to shame all the citizens of the country. One thing we should all know is that the internet never forgets. Here's someone who has never been to the country before, judging every single person based on what he read on the internet. Over the course of our conversation, he brought up a lot of topics: jollof rice (I later told him about fried rice too), fufu and our food in general. He said he read about the miracle river and asked me if I've been there before, (I was like: WHaT miracle river?!) I later remembered the stuff I read over the news sometime about the water flowing from a statue that was healing people. He brought up the fact that we eat dogs, and asked if i eat that too. He said he read about our child soldiers (at this point, Im like WTF!?) I had to ask him where he read all this stuff from, he said he googled up "Nigerian culture" and clicked on some random links and read through. At this point, we delved into the culture discussion. We both brainstormed on the fact that the black americans have no culture whatsoever, they have no rules or guidelines. the mexicans, the italians, the indians, the caucasians and native americans have some sort of cultural backbone, some sort of values that govern their lives in a way. But the blacks in america have no culture. Its basically: born throway sort of mentality. A scenario where ratchetness, drugs, guns, gangs and violence are seen as a way of life. Later on, when I was all by myself, it dawned on me, maybe, just maybe, if we had fine-tuned our cultural values from the days of old and somehow blended it with the western education we got, nigeria would not be in the situation it is right now. Back then, baby-mamas and having kids out of wedlock were seen as a taboo, but look at us now. Are we slowly losing it? are we throwing our cultural values to the wind? will we end up like the akatas? (ask anybody for yankee the meaning) I would be looking forward to the next time we work together, the conversation we had on that day was really refreshing. 54 Likes 9 Shares |
Re: Yankee: through the eyes of a village boy. by FrankNetter(m): 3:10am On May 19, 2017 |
What if breeze mistakenly blows this dude into nairaland's politics section? and he sees the hateful comments we throw at each other? How we tribally stereotype each other and look for every opportunity to spew hatred? Do you guys realize nairaland is the biggest? nigerian forum? Are we representing ourselves well? What would the world think when they come across the comments on this forum? Shaming ourselves all because of "likes"? This situation is a perfect example of "you think you are doing me? You are doing yourself" Left for me, I think seun should copy reddit and quora on the upvote thingy, that way, stupid and tribalistic comments would get so many downvotes, it would deter tribalists from even commenting. One thing we should all bear in mind is that the internet never forgets. 54 Likes 10 Shares |
Re: Yankee: through the eyes of a village boy. by FrankNetter(m): 3:53am On May 19, 2017 |
Sometime ago, while driving around Chicago Heights, I came across this "okirika shop". It reminded me of the days I used to go to Oil Mill and Mile 1 park (Port Harcourt people go understand) to shop for clothes. This shop is just the yankee version of benddown select. ![]() While coming over to the USA, I dashed my cousins most of my stuff (including my brogues shoe). I was so happy to see some brogues shoes and vintage shirts in this shop though. This one na first grade Okirika, new bale! ![]() 26 Likes 2 Shares
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Re: Yankee: through the eyes of a village boy. by FrankNetter(m): 3:54am On May 19, 2017 |
They got novels too men ![]() while strolling through the ladies' section, I saw some trendy chiffon tops and stuff, I didn't want to take photos before the ladies there would start looking at me with one eye. The funny thing be say they all cost small small money o! As a pure igbo man, Business ideas are just popping up in my head ![]() ![]() ![]() 22 Likes 2 Shares
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Re: Yankee: through the eyes of a village boy. by Femcesc07(m): 4:40am On May 19, 2017 |
FrankNetter:nice update menh me feeling your pictures as they are coming in jare 12 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Yankee: through the eyes of a village boy. by ToluexCA(m): 6:26am On May 19, 2017 |
FrankNetter: Akatas - Black Americans 8 Likes |
Re: Yankee: through the eyes of a village boy. by ToluexCA(m): 6:31am On May 19, 2017 |
FrankNetter: Bro are these the $5 shop my bro told me about? BTW my bro stays in Chicago too went 2015 |
Re: Yankee: through the eyes of a village boy. by Nobody: 8:44am On May 19, 2017 |
FrankNetter:see it here franknetter 14 Likes
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Re: Yankee: through the eyes of a village boy. by Nobody: 8:45am On May 19, 2017 |
FrankNetter:so u be pH guy . nah there u know ... Ikwerre man I be |
Re: Yankee: through the eyes of a village boy. by Afam4eva(m): 9:16am On May 19, 2017 |
@FrankNetter Do you live in or close to South-side Chicago? How is the crime situation in your side of Chicago? 2 Likes |
Re: Yankee: through the eyes of a village boy. by 4dor: 9:17am On May 19, 2017 |
FrankNetter: In as much as I'm a fan of you talking about your experience I think you got the Buhari/corruption link wrong. So are you saying it was 2015 that the world started viewing us as a corrupt country? You see this corruption thing went mainstream after 1979 and it has gone down hill from there, leaders till date have only paid eye service to it. So Buhari echoing what we are and the world already knows is not the problem. The first stage of solving a problem is admitting the problem. 18 Likes |
Re: Yankee: through the eyes of a village boy. by Nobody: 9:18am On May 19, 2017 |
Sure, PM. FrankNetter: 1 Like |
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