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It's quite disheartening that Nigerians young and old are annoyingly tribalistic. There is unity in diversity as a wise man once said and honestly apart from language and a few cultural practices we are all the same. I was on Instagram a few minutes ago and there was this meme saying yoruba's are dirty/ugly/the cause of Naija's problem etc. , the meme didn't get to me as much as the arguments in the comments section. I didn't realize there was real hatred amongst Nigerians just because they are from different parts of the country.

Corruption, terrorism, insufficient resources, unemployment are amongst the numerous problems this country is facing and somehow in the midst of it all we find times to resent one another for stupid ethnic bias our very uninformed predecessors passed on. I say uninformed because they were less informed about other peoples or their traditions and that is not completely their fault. As the world is becoming more integrated we should also learn tolerance.

We cannot all have the same values or views about life, our sense of style doesn't have to be the same but we can learn to work together without resentment and a clean heart. It's no secret that a grudge-less heart actually knows more peace. Creating barriers in your mind might and eventually would set barriers for you in real life at some point. Even members of your tribe could turn out to have as many dissimilarities as possible with you. Just as we say no to racism in the world let us also stop the tribal bias we seem to only be brewing more.

Have any suggestions or thoughts please feel free to comment or message on facebook.

Regards. Yenique

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