Nigeria

In the course of the blog different aspects of Nigerian culture have been presented and compared. In this post two subcultures of Nigeria will be shown demonstrating that although they belong to the same country, groups with different hobbies, beliefs, religions, professions, and many other things were developed. Religion Nigeria,is divided between adherents of Christianity, Islam and traditional religion quite similar to polytheism though the exact ratio is uncertain. The majority of Nigerian Muslims are Sunni and are concentrated in mostly the northern region of the country with some Christian population, the same way Christians dominate in the south with some Muslim population. Most Nigerian Christians are Protestant thought about a quarter are Catholic. Nigeria has the largest Muslim population in sub-Saharan Africa. Islam dominates the north and has a number of supporters in the southwestern, Yoruba part of the country. The middle belt of Nigeria contains the most of

Hofstede's method serves to identify the cultural patterns of each group, behavioral discrepancies and improve our understanding of other cultures by examining how cultural values ​​affect this behavior. Below are the graphs thrown by the Hofstede method comparing Nigerian and Colombian culture. The purple bars represent the Nigerians and the blue ones represent the Colombians. When looking at the graphs it is clear that there is a lot of similarity in 3 aspects between the two cultures. Masculinity  (MAS) , long term orientation (LTO) and indulgence (IND) . The most distant, but at the same time close are power distance (PDI) , individualism (IDV) and uncertainty avoidance (UAI). Power distance index: Both present high percentages, which means that there is a lot of inequality among the inhabitants and they see it as normal in their lives. That is, they accept the social inequality. Individualism versus collectivism: The results show that both Nigerians and Colombi

Throughout these posts I have been talking about Nigerian culture. On this occasion it is necessary to analyze it from the Lewis model, which is represented by 3 categories given as follows: Linear active: Those who plan, program, organize, pursue chains of action, do things one by one. Multi-active: Those happy, talkative people who do many things at once, planning their priorities not taking into account a time schedule, but a relative emotion or the importance that each appointment can bring. Reactive: Those cultures that prioritize courtesy and respect, listening calmly and calmly to their interlocutors and reacting cautiously to the proposals of the other party. The model is represented by a kind of triangle that classifies the different countries according to the aforementioned categories. Based on the image we can place Nigerians as a culture that is almost completely multi-active with some reactive minorities, which makes the majority of its population look

Nigerians vs Colombians Gender roles are an essential part of a culture, then some aspects will be presented comparing some gender roles between Colombians and Nigerians (the culture being studied). The first aspect is education. For Nigerians, it is a latent problem that girls' attendance at school is low and therefore much less than that of boys. It is believed that this is caused mostly by the patriarchal nature of African culture and therefore many girls are forced to withdraw from school after elementary school. On the other hand in Colombia, although the number of girls in mixed schools is lower than that of male students, there is quite a difference with respect to the level of education they reach in comparison to Nigerians. Where i was able to study, a similar number of girls graduated from those who started studying with me taking into account that girls were 40% of the people in my class. Another important aspect to deal with is that 50% of Nigerian women get marr

Nigerian stereotypes Nigerians, like most of the people are misunderstood. What other cultures usually think about them is based on stereotypes. Among them it is often thought that they are poor, with poor education and scammers (based on the scam of the Nigerian prince). However, there are also some positive stereotypes, such as being open minded, hardworking, happy and proud. Basically those are the stereotypes that go through my mind when thinking about Nigerians, therefore in this post I tried to make a representation of these stereotypes with a drawing  where is show the cruelest stereotype, poverty .  But the reality is different, there is more than one story and the Nigerians are much more than that, since they have as many opportunities as any of us and enjoy their life to the fullest.

Nigerian culture I will use the iceberg method to select four aspects of Nigerian culture which will be developed. In case you did not know, the iceberg represents most aspects that allow differentiating one culture from another. It works as follows: At the top are the aspects that most people take into account when talking about culture but this does not mean that they are more important than those at the bottom, since these are the most close to people and based on feeling and experience. The aspects selected in the above are food and language. Respectively in the part below religion and norms. Food Nigerian cuisine consists of dishes or food items from the hundreds of ethnic groups that comprise Nigeria. Like other West African cuisines, it uses spices and herbs with palm or groundnut oil to create deeply flavored sauces and soups. Nigerian feasts are colourful and lavish, while aromatic market and roadside snacks cooked on barbecues or fried in oil are in abundance an