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Stereotyping! You’re in no Position to be a Moral Judge

Only a petite few would have heard of Louis Farrakhan, the Afro American Head of the Nation of Islam (NOI) in the US; but most of us, white or black, Africans or non-Africans know about stereotyping and have either been champions or victims of it. If you’re like me and you like to observe how people react to skin colours and typecasts, you’d find stereotyping comically entertaining. But if you don’t and you think it’s a social mayhem and anomaly, this piece is for you.
Straight to the point, I am Nigerian! Haha…what are your thoughts at the moment? You’re either thinking “here they go again, being noisy in every place” or “gosh…how did he get a chance to write in this space” among other things, the thoughts are yours and I do not know them all. What I know for sure nonetheless is that you are stereotyping, you judge me on prior assumptions that Nigerians are rude, loud, unproductive, unserious, dubious etcetera.
You won’t get from me the kind of response Mike Wallace got in that famous 1996 interview with Louis Farrakhan. Mike Wallace, the highly rated Journalist labeled Nigeria the most corrupt nation on earth and what a response he got. Louis Farrakhan said in summary “NO! You are in no position to be a moral judge so let’s not play holy and moralize on them”. It was sterner than that, you can see for yourself with this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bktQsfARjdU&feature=related.
In my judgment, the effort to understand individuals against the groups they belong to is more objective to do than to rest in the comfort of stereotyping and “playing safe” when dealing with different races or a nation’s people. Margaret Mead was spot on when she said “instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful”. I do not claim ignorance, there are bad Nigerians but there are also too many admirably good ones.
If you care to know, we are a country of over 250 ethnic groups with piercingly diverse ways of life and languages united only by Geography and Nationhood with a population of over 140 million brought together by colonization. The problems we face and the stereotypes borne are the seepages of all big populations with scarce resources; I refrain from naming other such countries.
I was at Low Yat Plaza recently and the Chinese fellow at a counter would just not talk to me, I tried to inquire the price of a camera I liked and the response I got was “Stupid”! That’s everything he said. I paid a price in that way and in other ways every other day for being Nigerian, but again it was and still is free entertainment to me. I won’t talk about the generic stereotypes here, but most people don’t know or think that some dark skinned People around are not Nigerians, and so they judge by Stereotype or treat all Africans by prior assumptions. But, I do not extricate myself and my compatriots from any wrongdoing, neither do I detest fellow Africans, I embrace you all because we are a great people. I do not also think that all Malaysians refer to me as stupid by their words or in their thoughts, I know and we should know that we are in no position to be moral judges.
I love my country, I love Nigeria but I love your country too. The entertainment continues!