You may not be aware of this but in the Western world:
- more and more women are opting for Natural childbirth and home births
- more and more women are opting for breastfeeding over formula - even for working moms
- more and more women are opting for reusable washable cloth diapers for their babies versus disposable diapers.
- more and more households are opting for chemical-free house cleaning agents (remember the pot scrub we made out of eggshells in Home Ec?)
- more and more American families are home - schooling their kids
- the percentage of western families that have eliminated a television from their homes grows every year.
Moral of the story:
A lot of practices back here in Africa were disparaged by the white man as backwards and ignorant.
So we believed them, threw it all away and swallowed their views on life hook, line and sinker.
So we believed them, threw it all away and swallowed their views on life hook, line and sinker.
We took their clothes, their religions, their music, their political systems, their family values - we swallowed it all.
Now we wear suits that strangulate us in the heat of our African sun and eat burger, chicken and chips to prove we have arrived...
Meanwhile the White man is embracing 'ethnic' clothing and vegetarian diet...
Many years down the line they went back to our trashcans; dusted off our 'ignorant' practices; TWEAKED AND IMPROVED ON THEM and are now proclaiming them to be the next Big thing.
In this life learn to accept nothing at face value; question everything.
Always ask yourself "can this be improved? Is there a better way?"
Don't accept everything your teachers tell you as the Gospel. Force them to prove their case to you.
Don't always view our traditional ways as INFERIOR. Don't throw all the babies out with the bath water. Find what is good in our ways and improve on the basic model; minimize the weaknesses.
Ps: let me just drop this and run...
some oyinbo proponents of natural childbirth now recommend eating your placenta after delivery... they actually wash it, prepare it as capsules and take as medicine...
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