Greetings, everyone!
Welcome to the new week of the featured contest for this week.
To begin with, stereotypes are beliefs or ideas that people have about a particular thing or group of people based not on their experience but on what they perceive, it could be or done in a way suitable for them, but that's not true in the real sense. I also see stereotypes as a mundane assumption in our society that seems harmless, people are into it, and they believe it, and they are satisfied with those ideas. This ideology is powerful but wrong in its presentation, and it can reduce or limit people's growth and connection, and change people's mindset about a particular thing that might affect them negatively.
However, we have different stereotypes in our society and it could be in age, in culture, and also in gender stereotypes. And it would always be a word or sentence formation to give it a suitable name. "All Nigerians are scammers" but not all are scammers. Let me give an analogy of what happened to my Dad, two years ago at the airport when he wanted to travel out of the country to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. They checked his ID card and saw that his card was from Nigeria. They had to tell him to wait somewhere, while they were checking others in. Why, because he came from Nigeria, and in their mind, they were thinking, all Nigerians are scammers, when not all are. Our top leaders make things worse for us when they go into another system with the wrong intentions and they record their activities as being corrupted, which gives us a bad picture of who the Nigerians are. Another way of having a clear mind against Nigerians is to hold a conversation with some Nigerians to see if Nigerians are truly scammers.
Where I'm serving now as a youth corps member, I have had the privilege of having conversations with many people in my office, and through this, you will know if they are true or not, This is how we know who is a scammer or not. Another country has seen Nigeria as a mundane country, thinking it is a bad place to be, or that people, themselves are corrupt.
Truth be told, not all Nigerians are scammers. Other countries deserve to be called scammers, too, but not all.
The system of Nigeria must be put in place. As I am talking to you, our former president, Muhammadu Buhari, passed away yesterday and it was trending on the social media platforms. Going through the comments, I read a lot of bad comments from Nigerians, some used it to catch a cruise, why because he didn't put things in place for Nigerians and some made a good comment that he tried his best while in his tenure as the president of Nigeria.
Overall, we shouldn't prioritize cultural stereotypes or any other stereotypes as our belief system, and assume that it is, whereas it is not.
This post is in response to the #Hivelearners featured contest week 174 episode 1
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