Why do African Diaspora Parents fail to teach ethnic language to their children ?
Why do African Diaspora Parents fail to teach ethnic language to their children ?
Why do African Diaspora Parents fail to teach ethnic language to their children ? this is an interesting YouTube live stream that looks into the impact of eliminating our identity within the black community. this is one to enjoy and share with others 🙂
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I will go as far as saying it is abusive to not teach your child their native language if you know it. What is your job as a parent but to feed them, clothe them and teach them how to navigate in the world. Not teaching them how to speak in their language is an abuse of neglect, you are crippling them. They will forever need a translator around their own people.
Is only Nigerian does that big mistake . Not other country . They do not learn from the past. They need to wake up my people
Hello @phrankleen13 . This topic is a huge pain .. and begs to wonder why no1 has tried to solve this problem untill now….
I made sure my kids learned Spanish. Their mother tongue is English but but spanish is also spoken a lot here in America.
I just found your channel and I can’t stop watching. I am Ethiopian and I feel like you are talking about my family. Keep up the great work brother 💜
While I do agree with the title of this topic, there is also a continuous downside to this dilemma. Problem is, most parents are not fluent in their native languages and dialects. Now, if the parents can’t speak their native languages, how can they teach it to their children? This is the problem and this is what’s being ignored in the conversation.
Akata is trying so hard to find their indentity so they are no longer akata while Nigerians and other africans are deliberately trying to lose their culture just to become akata. It is ridiculous. Nigerians with money in the diaspora will rather go to another racist country for vacation before going to their motherland. It is atrocious.
When I met the person I’m currently dating, I told her I wanted a Yoruba woman because I wanted to preserve my culture. She told me she was cultured in terms of speaking and cooking. She is also Yoruba. I was quick to find out that all she can do is wear Ankara and gélé. She doesn’t cook Nigerian meals and doesn’t speak the language like I would like her to. Crazy enough she looks her best in Yoruba outfit but she doesn’t know it. I will never forget the amount of compliments she got walking down the streets of Brooklyn wearing laise and gélé when we went out to eat. I actually saw a white womans jaws dropped when she saw her. There is no amount of Gucci or fendi that would make her look that beautiful. It was so inspiring, she pointed my girl out and I was so proud. I know she is trying because she was born in Nigeria but raised in America but I feel like her parents didn’t do enough to instill some cultural values. I’ve told her mom my worries but she tells me not to worry about culture but comfort. She said the same thing to my father who currently lives in Nigeria and my father flipped. We have consulted ifa and from the readings we got, our starts align. They didn’t necessarily say she is the one for me but I really love her and I will like for us to build a family. The problem now is I won’t content because I know with her, my kids won’t have the same cultural values I have. They won’t speak Yoruba like me or eat as much ikokore or ofada rice like I did. They won’t know our fallen soldiers and our precious history. I might know all of this and try to pass it on but the truth is that it’s the mother that raises a child. My mom has already told me she won’t give me her blessings if I choose to marry her. It’s a bad situation and it breaks my heart. Lately I’ve been distancing myself just so I can get this girl off my mind. I’m on the verge of ruining the relationship myself just because I can see where this is going.
19:00–21:00 😂😃😄😁 I do sympathize with d goat 🐐 on d Okada though: "how's he feeling?"
Some African parents believe speaking a colonial (enslavement) language is progress…It shows class and educational status etc.
In Eritrea even though it was colonized by Italy does not have Italian as its official language, but the majority language Tigrinya. Some in the comments say you do not speak your own language sometimes in Nigeria but English. Me as an Eritrean I am chocked!
fyi in Sweden you can be taught your mother tongue a few hourse every week, it is a subject even until secondary school if you want. But of course to learn any language is to use it daily m so parents contribution is vital. Of all African groups in Stockholm Sweden, the Somalis teach their children their language the best. I have under my upbringing never come across Somalis speak Swedish but their own language with other Somalis.
We were brainwashed with their language and religion that we feel so inferior and hate our own identity. Sometimes I wonder if we know the importance of all the organic medicinal products we have that could be modernize? But No! It has to be manufactured abroad to think it works better.
Phrankleen, this is one of the reasons I enjoy watching your channel, it feels like a movement.
Phrankleen, a good number of Nigerians in the diaspora speak their local language. Even at work, I try to speak broken with my 9ja coworkers when we meet. But I love how common it is to find 9jas speaking Yoruba or Igbo.
Unlike in Cameroon where we are heavily fragmented and divided by our numerous tribes and do not have a common language force that binds us. It's usually English, French or both. I hate to admit that I am one of those who can't speak their vernacular
All is not lost my friends. Hebrew was a nearly dead language at the turn of the 20th century after existing for 3,000 years it had dwindled to near extinction. Now it's the lingua franca of all Jews on Earth and is a language that can be sung as a lullaby and also describe theoretical physics. That took the vision of a few people and then steady implementation. In America Jewish kids go to Hebrew School after their normal classes. With all the Nigerians in Texas, surely someone can convert a strip mall rental into an Ibo and Yoruba afterschool program. I'm starting to think that for every year a people are colonized it takes ten years worth of recovery. Can't wait to hear a hearty "Ẹ n lẹ" on Mars. Let's start today.
I agree with your position wholeheartedly. Preserving your identity is important.
This is another one of your very interesting videos keep up the good work.
Learning your parents language can give you options if wanting to return to one's country of origin. Preserving one's bloodline overseas – for how many generations? There are Indians in Africa who after many generations still regard Africans with disdain and no way entertain inter-marriage. Perhaps they should be ditching their 'blood-line'.
lol Phrankleen you have dropped another bomb with this one lol
I love my language Luganda I’m British born buy the way I have family members back home they don’t speak it to dem 😀😂😂😂
Even in Nigeria where am from, a lot of parents do not teach their children the native tongue! I grew up partly in warri and most kids could speak pidgin English but not the urhobo, isoko, or okpe language. I was born and raised in Lagos mostly and can speak Yoruba like a native. I speak a little urhobo but understand more. I now live in the US 🇺🇸. My kids are 12, 9 and 6. They understand the little urhobo I speak to them. They are learning igbo which is their father's side and they understand and speak a little pidgin English and can switch to a diluted American infused pidgin English! I am still working with them.
Oh my!love everything about your shows Phrankleen now this is OTT and I applaude you for this. I'm a born South African woman who loves her native language to a point that even when my sister and I emigrated to NZ in the 2002 we never stopped speaking our dialect especially when we converse with family and friends both here and back home. I had my first child who didn't quite speak,but understood very well as it was a struggle to teach him because we lived with my parents and of course my siblings spoke English all the time.
I remember very well how our younger sister was so embarrassed when my other sister andI would speak our dialect in public and she'd be feeling so ashamed as her friends were around. I was a little annoyed,but we never stopped and guess what,the minute her friends realised that we spoke our dialect….they were so fascinated and wanted to learn. From that day younger sister wanted to learn that most times she'd eavesdrop and because some of the conversation didn't involve her we'd switch to another South African language(Xhosa mix with Afrikaans)and she'd be lost.
Today,I have 3boys in total whom I speak to in my dialect and they understand. They're learning to speak and I hope they'll learn as much as they'll understand English. One thing I've learnt when I had my first child was that children can learn as many languages as they possibly can at a young age. I dislike changing my accent just because I'm overseas till this day I'm fluent in my language which is isiZulu both in conversing and in writing and I am so proud of my mother tongue. My teen son laughs me some times because of the way I pronounce some English words with my South African accent and I told him that's who his mother is and I will not change my accent for anyone not even for a million dollar. I'm a typical Zulu,South African girl who most people are shocked to hear me speak my dialect to my boys especially some other African from other countries.
A dear friend of mine was shocked to hear me speak to my 2yr and 1yr old boys in my dialect and she said she admired that I speak to them in my dialect and she can't to her own children because her parents never taught her, her own dialect I was shocked because she lived in Nigeria most of her life and she began her hubby to teach their kids his dialect since she's unable to,to teach them her own. I love your show sometimes I wish people knew the importance of speaking their home language because for me I can never change my African roots. My eldest is back home even now since 2018 and what was meant to be a short holiday became a long-term stay. I'm trying to bring him back now as soon as the boarders are open here in Australia.
Thank you so much Phrankleen for always sharing what we really need to know and understand as the Diasporians and just Africans at large in general. Bless you!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
I met a guy who grew up in the states in downtown Chicago and can speak perfect Yoruba .I was shocked
May GOD Have Mercy Upon Nigeria And Africa A Whole. May We Be Proud of Our Own Language And Our Own Heritage. May GOD Help Us. I Am Wondering What About White Children That Were Born And Raised In Africa But They Still Have Their Own European, American Or Asian Accent?. It's So Sad May GOD Help Us.
That’s why I get miffed when some people come and start saying they don’t understand Yoruba/Igbo or their native language meanwhile they will be forming phonetics with their grammatically challenged English. I’m like “o o pass, o o fail, o o kuro loju kan naa!” Translation: “you nor pass, you no fail, you just remain in the same spot!” So which will we now do oh?
Someone asked me just this evening if I intend to speak Yoruba to my baby and I was like I already do so.
Am Ugandan living in the USA and in Newyork there’s an after school program to teach luganda to the children not just the language but customs etc best idea ever and whoever came up with this idea is making a killing .
I think the biggest challenge of some Nigerians not embracing or speaking their languages proudly (especially abroad) is deeply rooted in the differences in ethnicities within the Nigerian population. For example if all of Nigeria is one ethnicity and speak thesame language, then United we shall stand and no inferiority complex or one tribe feeling more superior. This is one of the reasons English is the common language amongst Nigerians….it creates a common ground, peace and unity between tribes in Nigeria. Language and Culture goes hand in hand. You can't have one without the other. That is why one must embrace and be proud of your language. If not, your culture and language perishes.
When those residing in Nigeria forbid their children from speaking the language!
YOu are so right Mr. Phrankleen. No matter how many years I spend in Europe or having the Green Card, I still consider myself EDO GIRL. Even if it takes so many years speaking the Western Language, I still speak my language and NEVER GET BORED NOR ASHAMED of it.
There are some of our people in the diaspora who already have their Green Card, they are considered to be the citizen of that country forgetting about their origin, which is very BAD.
Thanks once again Mr. Phrankleen for this livestream.
My brother I love your thought process. Our Yoruba people sometimes feel inferior when it comes to speaking our Yoruba language. I am diaspora born and raised but of Yoruba parentage. I went to school in Nigeria till I was about 16yrs old and learned a lot. I love my Yoruba culture, values and speak the Yoruba language. I teach my kids who were born in England Yoruba language and culture as I want them to know their root.I love my Yoruba values in me and will always be proud of them.so I am 100% with you on this topic you are discussing. I love you for that. Moreover, thanks for supporting our Yoruba people back home in our fight for justice and independence. We Yoruba people are the most tolerant ethnic group in Nigeria. Very accommodating indeed and the most educated yet we are still being treated like unjustly in Nigeria. We will rise up and achieve our objective of being treated with respect by this useless,bigotry political leadership currently in power in Nigeria. Thanks for attending the rally .I saw you in your YouTube video when the police arrived at the Nigerian high commission
This is so timely, my sis and I are from the Caribbean and our dad is Nigerian, we ask him to teach us yoruba and he tells us to use youtube instead. Now my sis and I are struggling to speak with the Nigerian side of our family, but I'm determined to learn it on my own!
Unfortunately, in Nigeria majority of those managing our private institutions (schools and universities) are those Fela told us are suffering from "Colonial Mentality". It's not only with the language but also with our History and African Spirituality.
I am a Ugandan living in Los Angeles , California. The thought of my children not speaking my mother tongue has made me refrained from having children here . If you don’t teach your children your mother tongue, it means your language is one generation away from extinction!