Quote from: Gozie51 on April 30, 2023, 09:12:29 PM

Quote from: Hispo on April 28, 2023, 07:22:16 PM

I agree that it would be okey for them to stay together and decided not to have children or even adopt one instead.
But I doubt that is an option, since I have learnt from people living in Africa and also users on this forum that having children is an important part of the family culture there and not getting married and not procreating can lead to being socially rejected or stuff like that. In my opinion it is non-sense, since I am from the Americas; but I get how different cultures can be around the world.

I have learnt more about African culture since I joined this forum, tbh.

It is nice to know that you have learnt more about African culture and it is also good that you know that the culture is mutating and going through alculturation which is affecting the social, economic or psychological state of a typical African society. I have to let you know that things like polygamy are giving way to monogamy giving rise to adoption of children where couples in nuclear homes are not able to procreate for one health reason or the other - this was not heard before. I guess your country (America) and other European countries have influenced African society a great deal to the extent you may not be able to trace a pure breed of African culture lately and this is the effect of brain drain going on in Africa. Unlike 30 years ago, abortion, adoption of children, monogamy and nuclear homes etc were not African practice but things have changed because of alculturation, a product of technological developments. The African culture is not what it was before now and if you want to learn more you can read Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe .

I would never under-estimate the influence of European powers over the African culture. Depending whom you ask, some may argue that people from Africa were forced to change their way of living and thinking because the colonization, both political and cultural; I assume some young people there prefer to embrace the western values over the old African traditions, it is the same here in LATAM, people here are influenced for the cultural spheres of power of USA and Europe.

It is the way it is, I just hope we can continue to keep the good things of our culture and do not absorb the negative things from foreign nations.

Quote from: Ojima-ojo on April 30, 2023, 11:27:07 PM

Quote from: Hispo on April 28, 2023, 07:22:16 PM

I agree that it would be okey for them to stay together and decided not to have children or even adopt one instead.
But I doubt that is an option, since I have learnt from people living in Africa and also users on this forum that having children is an important part of the family culture there and not getting married and not procreating can lead to being socially rejected or stuff like that. In my opinion it is non-sense, since I am from the Americas; but I get how different cultures can be around the world.

I have learnt more about African culture since I joined this forum, tbh.

It's nice to know that you have lent other culture aside from your own from users in this forum and it sound great to be able to differentiate their culture and beliefs from yours and what is irrationally normal, Africans have hard a lot of horrible culture such as the killing of twins in some part of the continent until it was abolished by a western woman some decade/centuries ago.

Likewise also os the perception and believe in witch craft existence and the perception pf anyone not being able to bear they own biological kids as a witch in Africa a lot of things are intellectually and scientifically wrong but yet it's a standard of their existence in some cases.

i am aware of some of those believes which could be considered to be nonsensical on other places of the world but I'll let you know that here in South America there are towns in the jungle where people also believe in the existence of black magic and witchcraft, so there is not much difference in that sense. However, human sacrifice or AIDS denial is not a thing here.

To be honest, when I first joined the forum I thought I would mostly encounter people from USA and Europe. African and Asian people truly seem to represent an important percentage of the traffic around here.