Hello Professor and Classmates;
Reaching conclusions or stereotyping people from another country or culture is quite prevalent in America and beyond. I’ll use the conclusions drawn about Nigerian men and other men from Africa coming to America. We all know that most come to America for the opportunities, in the interim, there are other opportunities that these men seek. Moreover, as the men embark upon their journey here in the states their thirst for companionship increases over time as it should, their men. However, the conclusions that they draw of American women is that we are fast, sex hungry, and easy; Also, the only thing we care about is money. Conversely, they want to buy our time by offering marriage for money to become a citizen, most are married to someone from their nation, and their intentions are not the best for the unsuspecting bride. That is in part by the Nigerian man considering himself to be overtly or covertly dominate to the woman. It has been said that after the marriage is established for a period and after the dominate Nigerian male has covertly managed to get his wife to allow all of the assets to be put in his name, he abuses her emotionally and verbally then insists upon a divorce leaving his American wife with nothing. Taking a quote from our reading, Gannon and Pillai states that “U.S Americans know of Nigeria because of the email and other Internet-based scams that aim to part “gullible Americans” from their money” (2015, p 442). Here is just …show more content…
Which brings me to a poem shared in this weeks’ TEDTalk titled “Some Days,” Collins says it puts you in reference of “Some days you eat the bear, other days the bear eats you” (2012). At the end, Collins states, “there’s a horror movie in there somewhere.” That is true, and the horror is having been robbed of your dignity, life savings, and
Reaching conclusions or stereotyping people from another country or culture is quite prevalent in America and beyond. I’ll use the conclusions drawn about Nigerian men and other men from Africa coming to America. We all know that most come to America for the opportunities, in the interim, there are other opportunities that these men seek. Moreover, as the men embark upon their journey here in the states their thirst for companionship increases over time as it should, their men. However, the conclusions that they draw of American women is that we are fast, sex hungry, and easy; Also, the only thing we care about is money. Conversely, they want to buy our time by offering marriage for money to become a citizen, most are married to someone from their nation, and their intentions are not the best for the unsuspecting bride. That is in part by the Nigerian man considering himself to be overtly or covertly dominate to the woman. It has been said that after the marriage is established for a period and after the dominate Nigerian male has covertly managed to get his wife to allow all of the assets to be put in his name, he abuses her emotionally and verbally then insists upon a divorce leaving his American wife with nothing. Taking a quote from our reading, Gannon and Pillai states that “U.S Americans know of Nigeria because of the email and other Internet-based scams that aim to part “gullible Americans” from their money” (2015, p 442). Here is just …show more content…
Which brings me to a poem shared in this weeks’ TEDTalk titled “Some Days,” Collins says it puts you in reference of “Some days you eat the bear, other days the bear eats you” (2012). At the end, Collins states, “there’s a horror movie in there somewhere.” That is true, and the horror is having been robbed of your dignity, life savings, and