LS SITHOLE

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L SITHOLE

Othering on the human society

9 Mar 2024, 01:07 Publicly Viewable

I used to believe that people live according to their ethnicity ,for instance I believed  Africans they practice tradition , culture barriers like appeasing to the ancestors which is what we call Ukuphahla. But yet learned that people do create difference in Presenting ethnicity.                                                                                                                                                                                                                STREREOTYPING                                                                                                                                                Here the characters of Chimanda Ngozi Adichie who is an African from Eastern Nigeria. They drank a lot of ginger beer because the characters in the British books drank ginger beer. Never mind not knowing what ginger beer was after many years she would have a desperate desire to taste ginger beer. American roommate asking where she had learned to speak English so well, confused to say that Nigeria happened to have English as its official language . Roommate asked if she could listen to what she called tribal music( Tape of the Mariah Carey). Not knowing how to use stove. Writers were expected to have had a really unhappy childhoods to be successful, she began to think how could she invent horrible things her parents did to her. This creates Stereotype in terms of language whereby the American roommate asked if where did she learn to speak English so well because of the though to say Eastern Nigerians don't know how to speak English, even the use of stove, thinking they cook with fire.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         OTHERING

 It's quite evident that the aid not coming from Western to Africa but from the Western world. Africa is poor and dying and merely surviving on the mercy of the west. Why is it that 5,000 units of their currency is worth one unit of your currency, when they are the ones with actual gold reserve. It's quite evident that the aid is in fact not coming from the West to Africa but from Africa to the Western  world. This creates distortion in a way that the West sees the Africa as poor and dying and it's merely surviving on the West. This is what happens in the human world , in the world we have created that in evolution the fittest survives and that's what is evolutionism.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     EXOTICIZATION

Always uses the word `Africa or Darkness` people means Africans who are not black enough while `The people` means black Africans. Naked warriors , loyal servants and seers. The starving African who wanders the refugee camp nearly naked and waits for benevolence of the west. Her children have flies on the eyelids and pot bellies and her breasts are flat and empty. Then there's a motherly woman who has a rolling laugh and who is concerned for your wellbeing. Her children are delinquent. Bad western characters may include children of Tory cabinet ministries, Afrikaners, employees of the world bank when talking about exploitation by foreigners.