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Sunday, September 24, 2006

I can't be bothered to think of a title

Hope you guys had a nice weekend, cuz I did. I went to watch Children of Men in the cinema and it was really cool although it was sad, it was a really good movie. It was quite a scary illustration of the future with all women being infertile and london being as horrible as that!
On to something else, I,ve been thinking about somethings. what do you guys think is the right age to start dating? I have my own views on this and I think the right age is 16( this is not becos i'm sixteen too). Some of you are probably thinking "SIXTEEN no way! how can you start dating at sixteen?" well, what age did you start dating? huh? and by dating I don't mean actually sleeping with a guy. Which brings me to another question , can a guy and a girl "go out together" without actually sleeping together?

Also what are your views on inter-racial dating? (I'm hoping thats what its called). Personally, actually no, theoretically, I think its alright but practically i don't know if I would ever. There's this german guy in my school that I kind of fancy but the only problem is he's german. I know this sounds racist but I guess its the way I was brought up. Not that my parents are racist, they actually have friends from lots of places and I also have lots of freinds from other backgrounds but thats freindship not an actual relationship. My mother would probably go bonkers if in future I decide to marry an ibo man (which is very likely considering the fact that Lemar has Ibo roots).

In secondary school most of my Ibo friends didn't mind marrying Yoruba men but most Yoruba girls didnt think they would marry outside their tribe? I dont know about hausas cuz I had only one hausa friend, who was practically yoruba, and she was open to all tribes. So does our culture influence our choices or is it just individual differences?

I know my questions are kinda wierd but I just want to know what people think about such stuff.

One more thing, this week we were having a class and we were talking about the Richest and the poorest countries in terms of GNP per person. One chinese guy actually had the guts to say Nigeria was one of the poorest countries! I had to give the guy some education on Nigeria. Thankfully the teacher agreed with me that Nigeria is definitely not one of the poorest countries. One of my classmates actually asked me if we lived in normal houses or huts in Nigeria! I keep explaining to these people that Nigeria is not a jungle and although its not as developed or as economically stable as Britain it's not as bad as they think. I don't really blame them anyway cuz the only pictures they ever see of the place are filled with hungry looking children and dirty roads. I wonder why no one ever shows them the nice parts of Nigeria but then again wouldn't we just be fooling ourselves if we only showed the nice parts and totally forgot about the horrible parts and the poor people.
Anyhoo, you guys have a nice week and please leave your comments!Ciao!

2 comments:

LondonBuki said...

So many questions...

I think 16 is an okay age to start dating... I was 16 the first time I ever kissed a guy.

Inter-racial and Inter-tribal relationships - I don't see a problem with that at all...

Ppl are clueless about Nigeria and that is sad - to think we live in HUTS?!?!?

Hope you are enjoying yourself at boarding school.

Anonymous said...

lol like duh tiwa
of course you can go out w/out having sex. the question you should have asked is can you go out w/out having a physical side. i think that becomes harder as you get older, but its all about self control and set boundaries before you enter into the relationship. as for marrying out of my tribe, yeah ill prolly do it cos i have like zero yoruba friends heheheheh
my mother is constantly vexed about all the mongrels (just joking) that i tell her i like lol.