Things I Like and Dislike About My Culture

Greetings Pals, this is truly what I like and dislike mostly about my culture. I am a Nigerian, and there are so many things I appreciate and the ones I don't like about my culture that is the Igbo tribe precisely. Let start by mentioning those ones I love passionately about my culture

=> Is our dialect, I truly appreciate my language so much, speaking it gives me a great joy, I can't even stay a second without speaking my mother tongue.

=> Our dressing, Igbo really like dressing most especial me I also like with a passion, the way our people dress always makes me happy. All Igbo's dress to look neat and smart. Putting on a decent attire has always been our culture.

=> Is our respectful manner: respect can never be disputed in my culture, we respect people a lot, especially the elderly ones to compare other tribes, like Yoruba and Hausa. Igbo hold respect in high esteem. Insulting elderly is seen as a taboo in my culture up till date.

Again, the way we dance: dance is a great thing in my culture, my people love dancing, we are wonderful dancers, in fact, we have so many dance groups, even the old and young knows how to dance.

=> The food we eat: Most tribes always recommend our local/native foods to the bones. For example, the bitter leaf soup, white rice and banga stew and so on, that is why people doesn't joke with food, we love food a lot.

Coming to those ones I dislike about our culture that is giving me a major concern are, my people dwell in money so much to the extent that they can hit someone badly just to acquire wealth and fame. That's why most people do not trust each other till today. 

Moreover, in my culture we spend so much on burials, we are so extravagant when it comes to spending money especially on burials. Some people even had to borrow to do the burial rights of their dead, just to make sure they fit in with others, you can imagine that kind of life.

Another thing that drives me crazy is, in my culture, our people have so much respect, which makes them treat women with little or no regards, for instance now, when a lady's husband, they make the lady mourn her husband as if she kill€.d him. She is not going to go anywhere, not even the church for two months.

But when a husband loses his wife, the reverse is the case, the de.ath of his wife does not stop or limit him from doing anything, which is very, very unfair these days, I pray dis particular issue get to be addressed in my own culture.