Lolest! wrote:hamburglar wrote:Lolest! wrote:Quote:Here's another idea. Maybe its time we got rid of all mother tongue languages aka tribes in Kenya and teach the next generation English and Swahili only.
Mother tongue is not synonymous with tribe. It is possible that one tribe will have their mother tongue that is different from another but I believe that is not the cause of divisions
Remember Rwanda and their genocide? They speak 1 language, Kinyarwanda. Somalis speak 1 language too. People divided along ethnic lines do not need any further incentive in language to hate other tribes. They will still ask in Sheng what your tribe is and discriminate you for it!
Perhaps if we killed tribes(which would kill mother tongue in the process) we could have less tribalism. We could pretend like Rwanda does that there were no tribes to start with
But we will still search people's faces for traces of ancestry...
Rwanda had two tribes. Hutus and Tutsis which made it that much more incendiary.
Getting rid of tribes will not happen overnight but two or three generations from now it could be a thing of the past. So there will not be anybody asking anybody in sheng what their tribe is because mother tongues will be extinct.
Somalis speak one language but have different clans which qualify as different tribes.
Am talking about having one language like industrialized nations. Germans speak German and English, the French speak French and English, Americans speak English and some Spanish, there is no way we can't speak Swahili and English only.
The only thing we should be focusing on is eradicating poverty and not fighting over stupid tribes every five years.
Rwanda also has the Twa. 3 tribes with Bahutu being majority.
I don't get how killing mother tongues will kill tribalism. Some of the most tribal people I've met can't speak their mother tongue!
Right now, most families in urban areas have children who speak English or Kiswahili. Those kids, in Jubilee dominated areas will support Jubilee and NASA areas NASA. I mean kids. They know there's an election. They learn to take sides when young. Then later they get to know they belong to this or the other tribe. Their loyalty becomes stronger to that tribe.
We must not think that killing mother tongues will kill tribes. But killing tribes will kill mother tongues, like it happened to the Andorobo of Kiambu and Nairobi when their tribe was assimilated into the Kikuyu tribe. Their language had to die naturally
I agree with lllloolest
Language has nothing to do with bad behavior. Of all the people Humbaglar you should understand this. It's the same case with religion or lack of it.
Bad behavior is bad behavior but human beings all world over, not only Kenya, use things like tribe, sex, religion etc to do bad things. I have a blog somewhere online that's very popular that explains to you why it's a bad idea to be a black man in the South in the USA. The language is one..english...
In Kenya it's very simple...Ahoi and Athamaki...The poor vs the rich. But the rich are very adept at cheating the poor that their problem is with is "huyo mtu wa vitendawili" or " 41 vs sijui how many".
Please read the story on this forum about Jimmi. Somehow Jubilee bloggers have forgotten how many millions he used to spend on their blogging.
To me it's an issue of self actualisation. When a populace understands that they are good just the way the are...Meaning they don't have to take shit from somewhere else.
I was the first on Wazua to say I shall not vote. I still keep with that motto.
I have no reason whatsoever, to vote for someone I THINK is a thief. No one can make me vote for a thief. Ipso facto, no one can make me kill my neighbour because he's from sijui what tribe and "ando aitu" are being finished. Mimi nitapanda boda boda hadi Tanzania...Huo ni upus.
Glad that Humbaglar took the route of posting it here on wazua. Where it seems stupidity reigns. Just look at two threads running here..
1. Uhuru vs Raila
2. Nasa what's the game plan
Where you shall find those people humbaglar is talking about. Those people who think that because the speak some funny language they are great...
Humbaglar I would request that you stop equating mother tongues to stupidity. Those two are not equally mutual.
A stupid man is a stupid woman be. He wants to use his tribe but his tribe says no...Wewe ni jinga tu ukichagua mkora unayemjua.
For those of us who won't vote for thieves, let's send some few coins to Boniface Mwangi's Campaign. Where Mpigs are colored red in their office. Tuseme na tutende kwa Boniface.
Thieves are not good people. Tumeelewana?