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Nigerian youth and western culture
Youths are the leaders of tomorrow.” That means, if you have youth whose moral ability is low, your country must prepare to have bad leaders. And a country with good youth, certainly, that country will produce good leaders.
From the Nigerian perspective, it could be said that education has brought about positive and negative changes in our value system, customs, norms, ideas and social relationship.
By extension, our society in this contemporary world, depends on the improvement and developments of our citizenry and promotion of knowledge, attitude, values, beliefs and understanding of moral, cultural and ethical principles.
The way we dress and behave tells a lot about us, it tells how decent we are and more about our homes and upbringings.
The morality of our youths today has gone down the drain, particularly that of girls. The way some girls dress is responsible for many cases of sexual harassment, this is because, some of the dresses they wear reveal the sensual parts of their bodies thereby causing assault on them.
Female students in our institutions of higher learning dress in a way that attract aggressors and rapists because they dress in provocative manner.
Most of the dresses our youths wear on the street, schools and homes are stage dresses and beach wears, but our youths claim that they are wears of the civilized world. For example boys put on big shoes or timber boots, half trousers, big chain necklace, earrings and beside some even go ahead to perm or burn their hair to look western. They end up looking like musicians on stage, and that does not portray the real African Culture.
Mai Bukar Galtimari Dept of Mass Communication University of Maiduguri.
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