Depressed101:
must be new york or london

ultimateprof:


I'm highly irritated by your write up and you said that you're conducting a research, shame to Nigeria academic sector. Please correct your typing errors as well as the grammatical errors and the miss placed punctuation marks ( mechanical accuracy), by so doing we will see if we're going to attend to your question thanks.

Winsome77:
My brother I actually haven't been out of this country before, but one story a friend of mine living in India told me was that. He first time he got into India, few weeks after, he went to a shop. The shop keeper had to ask which country he's from? As soon as he told him he's from Nigeria, the man has to pick up the plastic he keeps his money(Ike owo) and had to hold it tighter, he went back few days after, still the same thing and that later continues so he had to stop going there.... He felt really embarrassed, India lasan lasan niyen...

ultimateprof:


I'm highly irritated by your write up and you said that you're conducting a research, shame to Nigeria academic sector. Please correct your typing errors as well as the grammatical errors and the miss placed punctuation marks ( mechanical accuracy), by so doing we will see if we're going to attend to your question thanks.

zizirecords:
I live and work in Sierra Leone. Nigerians have a very positive image here and there is a lot of love and appreciation to Nigerians for what we did to save the country during their civil war. Many big businesses are run by Nigerians and all the major banks are Nigerian (GTB, First Bank, EcoBank, UBA, Zenith etc.)

ablemachine:


The Bolded. Stop wasting internet ink. Why not just say Are not Common

Lucas4903:


As diverse as Canada is and YET you are the only African in the Organization (some sort of bragging right I presume).....except if is not the Canada I know anymore. Wehdone sir.

WoundedLamb:


What's your point exactly? Because Canada is diverse, every organization must have an African? Do you know the staff size of the guy's organization? The guy specifically said he lives in the most diverse city (he wasn't even emphasizing on the entire country), do you know if his office is in the same city? Do you even know the guy at all? If you had doubts, why not ask for clarifications instead of just coming online to call someone a lier based on assumptions just because you believe you have a fair knowledge of Canada? I have lived in Canada virtually all my life and yes, there are MANY organizations both in Quebec where I live and in many other provinces that do not have people from a certain continents. It doesn't make Canada any less diverse.

ablemachine:


The Bolded. Stop wasting internet ink. Why not just say Are not Common

Mckore:

I felt the same too lol. "Are common" you mean.

lordally:


Thanks a lot I appreciate... Omo I never knew Polish woman like Black guys like that o

Zaggie:


Please try to get me right OK

Perfectbeing:
I think you should work on your punctuations bro. You either skipped where you're supposed to use one or use the wrong one entirely. Thanks.

pocohantas:


The part in red, I would have known you are a Nigerian at that point.

That is a trademark answer only found among Nigerians

Aguogba:
I went to Sweden as an international M.Sc student. A lot of master's courses in Sweden are taught in English because, despite the fact that Swedish is their national language, they speak very good English. Ranked 3rd best in the world behind Britain, and Netherlands.
Just as many suggested before, my classmates/lecturers were surprised that someone from Nigeria could speak English not to talk of fluently. This perception is mostly because East Africans (Somali, Ethiopia, Eritrea,Kenya and Uganda), who came here as refugees, dominate the African image in Sweden. Aswear, even we
from Naija wey no too sabi English dey struggle to understand them, not to talk of Onyinbo.

That said, Swedish people are easygoing, socially withdrawn and taciturn in nature. So they don't even give a damn about you as an immigrant. While you revel in the total freedom and personal dignity you are accorded here even by their law enforcement, be rest assured that you could live here for a decade without making friends with a single native even with your proficiency in Swedish language.

In conclusion, I don't want to rule out the fact that there are still some latent "microaggressions" (look for the meaning) which one can observe if they're the kinda people that pay attention to those. Which I don't have time for. E.g when you ask me did you say you're from (Niggar-ria) when I just told you Nigeria (Nai-ji-ria)

I sabi say wetin carry me come . So, I no dey look Uche face.

Zaggie:
Many of the Polish people are not racists. They believed all African men have big gbola and sex is free in Africa. They believe it's natural for African men to last an hour or more during sex. They still have some funny stereotypic ideas about Africans, some of them still think Africans live in the forests,that is why many of them find it hard to believe me when I tell them that I saw lions,wolves and elephants for the first time in my life here in Warsaw! They don't even know if there's any country called Nigeria, either you're from Somalia,Zimbabwe or Rwanda, all they know is you're an African.
A big challenge here is that Polish government didn't have any plans to integrate the Africans into the Polish society. There are no projects by the government to help in this integration process, unlike what Germany and UAE is doing at the moment. The African community here in Poland are simply on their own. We learn what we learn,and achieve what we achieve just on our own. There is little or no recognition of our presence here whatsoever. Even after securing a working permit, most companys still demand an attestation letter from your consulate.
I work in a concrete manufacturing company. In my company, they believe I don't have to wear safety gadget before entering the plant because I'm an African, they believe I have a natural immunity to acid and chemical inhalation. They believe we are naturally strong and we shouldn't care about our health.
Incidentally, the African community will for ever remain here in Poland. We will continue to grow in numbers. Many good ones will keep arriving every year.
If you have a valid residency or a working permit here, and you don't pass your boundaries, if you don't beat chest or involve in any illegalities,generally Polish are frdly.

etrange:




Lol... you guys are really funny. The two expressions might mean the same thing but there's a slight difference. Let me explain on a lighter note:

When one says something is not uncommon, the emphasy is on the fact that it is very common as against what people might believe. In other words, the expression "not uncommon" means "contrary to popular belief, they are common". But when one just says something is common, the emphasy is on that thing being discussed and not necessarily on any contrary belief. So I used the expression "not uncommon" as a way to emphatically invalidate or disprove the general belief that people out there always know one or two things about Nigeria. It was a carefully chosen choice of words, I wasn't just playing around. Nevertheless, sorry for any headache caused.

chachanga:
Prince Edward Island Canada, largely white, strongly Christian Baptist but with tenacious appreciation of diversity and an awakening fascination with multiculturalism, it's been sublime wearing off almost to the boringly plaid. Everyone largely buggers off minding their business till you tick them off and still get lightly brushed off.
Racism if at all, gets nervously passed across in well-couched in awkward humor or deference.

Being largely surrounded by water, relaxation by way of tourism revolves around more waterside attractions for me though its friggin' cold here, single digit heading to zero for a bit now infact.

You get peeps here who largely don't know and couldn't give a flippin crap where you're from until you start chilling together and you tell them experiences and realities from here and they start acting like you're from a real-life wakanda or something. And that's a real blessing considering that the stench of Nigeria's shitty rep hasn't preceded one here as with other places. And thank God say boys neva reach here to begin dey show dem pepper and you'd hardly hear say anyone be yahoo-yahoo victim. I do thanksgiving for that everyday that I'm not getting heavily stereotyped and hanged socially for some other id1ots crimes.

Covid-19 Work-From-Home adjustments have introduced some interestingly new dynamics into life here in one being more house-bound than before.

One other interesting thing's all the Band-8 IELTS wahala left me with a somewhat anticlimatic aftertaste because I've only been using structured English at work, social interactions have been quite normal with commonplace lingo that shouldn't have given any intending immigrant any bothers in wondering whether they'd fit in well or not. If you won't mind the cold but are seriously passionate about better choices and options for your future, come over.

Another thing I've noticed that's ticked me off about some fellow Africans here is the alice n wonderland mentality they carry which makes them erroneously assume that here is already so ok that the next best thing we should henceforth engage ourselves with is settle somewhere on the rat-race ladder, start earning, earning, buying stuff to fit in and repeat that cycle endlessly enough to go back to Naija and build a couple of houses and be landlord, pftt.

I see myself making valuable contributions to their way of life especially starting from the presently badly hit tourism industry where I function here in the nearest future. Africa currently holds the keys to their lack of mysteries and that is a big market waiting to be tapped into.

By and large, life here's a hundred times better than staying back in Nigeria practically battling against Govt's negative policies heating up everywhere socioeconomically and diminishing your best entrepreneurial efforts while paid lackeys like that Lai Mohammed still has the effrontery to spin lies to the contrary.

dsocioemmy:



Bro, It was very clear from the onset. No need to break it down. They just want to argue

PuZZyNegro:


I'm currently answering these types of questions for Facebook business suite and I'm being paid $275 for it.


You guys are lucky here.
Enjoy!

chinedu2henry:

How did you land the job? I wanna learn.

Melissa16:


Biko come and teach me. I also want to answer questions and get paid

Udodiri01:
Here in Australia, I tell my colleagues what they want to hear... The belief Africa is a country, we still live in huts, wild animals like lion and leopard roam the streets... Etc
On my own, I no de disappoint... Seee stories wey I de give them during lunch breaks and they look on their faces. Eg of my stories wit a little of that holiwood Zulu accent... How my grand father killed a lion with just a fabricated weapon, how we used to treak very long distance to go to school, how my cousin had to pay bride price by receiving 300 strokes of flogging, how we were initiated into the masquerade cult plus requirements and funny tasks, how girls use to walk around naked until they are married, how my mom had 10 kids, how ur wealth is calculated by yams and wifes, how we wrestle during moonlights and how my brother defeated the undefeated champion, how we used to go to the forest to hunt and gather wild fruit, how we used local aphrodisiac and had erection for days... Etc with funny names attached to my characters. I de plan to begin charg them