Perilous Trends In Ghanaian Civilisation

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• CITIZEN ONE 12 years ago

  Your article is laced with great observations and false assumptions about what you perceive as Ghanaian culture.
  
  I have said a million times over that in such a uniquely multi-cultural society as Ghana has, it is often if ...
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  Your article is laced with great observations and false assumptions about what you perceive as Ghanaian culture.
  
  I have said a million times over that in such a uniquely multi-cultural society as Ghana has, it is often if not entirely Akans (Twi-speaking Ghanaians), who have a problem with our so-called Ghanaian culture and official English language.
  
  My dear friend, if Ghana as it stands today was entirely Akan, Hausa, Ewe or a Ga Nation, your write-up will sound perfectly legitimate, but I am 100% certain that when you speak of Ghanaian culture, when you speak of Ghanaian languages, you unfortunately have only one unit of measure and thought on your mind, and that is Akan culture and the Twi language. For the same reasons that everything about foreign culture and language bothers you, so does it bother non-Akan Ghanaians, when they try to infuse and inject into Ghanaian society the notion that we have to suddenly forge that language and culture into the social lives of our other fellow Ghanaians from different ethnicities.
  
  Until someone can come up with a brilliant way of merging all our cultures and languages together beautifully, what you are trying to preach is no less an evil than that which has corrupted and diluted the very culture you claim we once had.
  
  Beneath your name is an inscription in a Ghanaian language, which you chose to believe that every Ghanaian must comprehend, but as a Ghanaian, which of the other 4 or more major languages are you fluent in, and if not what is your reason Mister Daniel Korang-teng?
  
  We are not there yet, but some of us can keep trying to reshape Ghana in their minds, some can attempt to re-write Ghanaian history to glorify their personal ego, and life would go on as miserably as it always has for all of us, until one day there shall come a man who will unite our multi-cultural sensibilities. For now, the best thing that has ever happened to Ghana is our status quo. Ironically, it is that which has elevated you from whens you cometh, to this glories aura that you enjoy today. Just imagine the odds without all that you wish our ancestors could have avoided.
  
  If anything at all, lay the larger share of the blame on our ancestors. They were feeble-minded, physically weak and shallow intellectually. In this life of mine, I have observed so much dysfunctional behavior in our Ghanaian society that was not enforced or influenced by colonialism.
  
  WE ARE WHAT WE ARE!

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• Paa Kwesi Mintah 12 years ago

  You were making sense until you veered into that eerie babble zone, trying so hard to tie a universal knot around Ghanaian cultures. Thereafter you became incomprehensible.
  
  The article's author never introduced any Twi or ...
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  You were making sense until you veered into that eerie babble zone, trying so hard to tie a universal knot around Ghanaian cultures. Thereafter you became incomprehensible.
  
  The article's author never introduced any Twi or Akan flavor in his article. His points were based on what's universally accepted as African or Ghanaian culture, knowing perfectly well that's an amalgam of different cultures.
  
  Any African worth his pride would've related what the author bemoans. Yet you stretched wide to pick Akanism to discredit the author. Could this be a cultural inferiority complex on your path?
  
  And then the nonsensical part of your rebuttal:
  
  "f anything at all, lay the larger share of the blame on our ancestors. They were feeble-minded, physically weak and shallow intellectually."
  
  What an insult. What makes you smarter than your ancestors? Is it your ability to type on the computer keyboard you used to write this trash?
  
  Talk about feeble mindedness; you exhibit that in bright neon colors. And you have the gall to label them intellectually shallow? I wish you could confront any of your forebears in your native language to taste the outcome.
  
  And then this piece of crap:
  
  "Until someone can come up with a brilliant way of merging all our cultures and languages together beautifully, what you are trying to preach is no less an evil than that which has corrupted and diluted the very culture you claim we once had"
  
  What the fvck are you talking about?
  Can you tell us how to merge cultures? Aren't there inter-tribal marriages in Ghana? Isn't anyone free to live among any tribe in Ghana, which may not be one's native tribe? Don't we have cosmopolitan cities and towns in Ghana with a melting pot of tribes?
  
  You proudly display your ignorance and I'll take pleasure in straightening you out.

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• Vodoo Xebieso 12 years ago

  Damn you, Paa Kwesi Mintah!!

  Damn you, Paa Kwesi Mintah!!

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• Paa Kwesi Mintah 12 years ago

  You were making sense until you veered into that eerie babble zone, trying so hard to tie a universal knot around Ghanaian cultures. Thereafter you became incomprehensible.
  
  The article's author never introduced any Twi or ...
  read full comment

  You were making sense until you veered into that eerie babble zone, trying so hard to tie a universal knot around Ghanaian cultures. Thereafter you became incomprehensible.
  
  The article's author never introduced any Twi or Akan flavor in his article. His points were based on what's universally accepted as African or Ghanaian culture, knowing perfectly well that's an amalgam of different cultures.
  
  Any African worth his pride would've related what the author bemoans. Yet you stretched wide to pick Akanism to discredit the author. Could this be a cultural inferiority complex on your path?
  
  And then the nonsensical part of your rebuttal:
  
  "f anything at all, lay the larger share of the blame on our ancestors. They were feeble-minded, physically weak and shallow intellectually."
  
  What an insult. What makes you smarter than your ancestors? Is it your ability to type on the computer keyboard you used to write this trash?
  
  Talk about feeble mindedness; you exhibit that in bright neon colors. And you have the gall to label them intellectually shallow? I wish you could confront any of your forebears in your native language to taste the outcome.
  
  And then this piece of crap:
  
  "Until someone can come up with a brilliant way of merging all our cultures and languages together beautifully, what you are trying to preach is no less an evil than that which has corrupted and diluted the very culture you claim we once had"
  
  What the fvck are you talking about?
  Can you tell us how to merge cultures? Aren't there inter-tribal marriages in Ghana? Isn't anyone free to live among any tribe in Ghana, which may not be one's native tribe? Don't we have cosmopolitan cities and towns in Ghana with a melting pot of tribes?
  
  You proudly display your ignorance and I'll take pleasure in straightening you out.

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• Paa Kwesi Mintah 12 years ago

  Meant for Citizen One

  Meant for Citizen One

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• Paa Kwesi Mintah 12 years ago

  You were making sense until you veered into that eerie babble zone, trying so hard to tie a universal knot around Ghanaian cultures. Thereafter you became incomprehensible.
  
  The article's author never introduced any Twi or ...
  read full comment

  You were making sense until you veered into that eerie babble zone, trying so hard to tie a universal knot around Ghanaian cultures. Thereafter you became incomprehensible.
  
  The article's author never introduced any Twi or Akan flavor in his article. His points were based on what's universally accepted as African or Ghanaian culture, knowing perfectly well that's an amalgam of different cultures.
  
  Any African worth his pride would've related what the author bemoans. Yet you stretched wide to pick Akanism to discredit the author. Could this be a cultural inferiority complex on your path?
  
  And then the nonsensical part of your rebuttal:
  
  "f anything at all, lay the larger share of the blame on our ancestors. They were feeble-minded, physically weak and shallow intellectually."
  
  What an insult. What makes you smarter than your ancestors? Is it your ability to type on the computer keyboard you used to write this trash?
  
  Talk about feeble mindedness; you exhibit that in bright neon colors. And you have the gall to label them intellectually shallow? I wish you could confront any of your forebears in your native language to taste the outcome.
  
  And then this piece of crap:
  
  "Until someone can come up with a brilliant way of merging all our cultures and languages together beautifully, what you are trying to preach is no less an evil than that which has corrupted and diluted the very culture you claim we once had"
  
  What the fvck are you talking about?
  Can you tell us how to merge cultures? Aren't there inter-tribal marriages in Ghana? Isn't anyone free to live among any tribe in Ghana, which may not be one's native tribe? Don't we have cosmopolitan cities and towns in Ghana with a melting pot of tribes?
  
  You proudly display your ignorance and I'll take pleasure in straightening you out.

  reply
• Paa Kwesi Mintah 12 years ago

  You were making sense until you veered into that eerie babble zone, trying so hard to tie a universal knot around Ghanaian cultures. Thereafter you became incomprehensible.
  
  The article's author never introduced any Twi or ...
  read full comment

  You were making sense until you veered into that eerie babble zone, trying so hard to tie a universal knot around Ghanaian cultures. Thereafter you became incomprehensible.
  
  The article's author never introduced any Twi or Akan flavor in his article. His points were based on what's universally accepted as African or Ghanaian culture, knowing perfectly well that's an amalgam of different cultures.
  
  Any African worth his pride would've related what the author bemoans. Yet you stretched wide to pick Akanism to discredit the author. Could this be a cultural inferiority complex on your path?
  
  And then the nonsensical part of your rebuttal:
  
  "f anything at all, lay the larger share of the blame on our ancestors. They were feeble-minded, physically weak and shallow intellectually."
  
  What an insult. What makes you smarter than your ancestors? Is it your ability to type on the computer keyboard you used to write this trash?
  
  Talk about feeble mindedness; you exhibit that in bright neon colors. And you have the gall to label them intellectually shallow? I wish you could confront any of your forebears in your native language to taste the outcome.
  
  And then this piece of crap:
  
  "Until someone can come up with a brilliant way of merging all our cultures and languages together beautifully, what you are trying to preach is no less an evil than that which has corrupted and diluted the very culture you claim we once had"
  
  What the fvck are you talking about?
  Can you tell us how to merge cultures? Aren't there inter-tribal marriages in Ghana? Isn't anyone free to live among any tribe in Ghana, which may not be one's native tribe? Don't we have cosmopolitan cities and towns in Ghana with a melting pot of tribes?
  
  You proudly display your ignorance and I'll take pleasure in straightening you out.

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• David Ofosu-Appiah 12 years ago

  so true,we must adapt the positive ideals of both concepts and civilisations as we live in a global village,.

  so true,we must adapt the positive ideals of both concepts and civilisations as we live in a global village,.

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• Akua 12 years ago

  You are right!

  You are right!

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• KOKONSA 12 years ago

  I missed the word dynamism from your article. Any mention of culture should be encased in its dynamic properties. Therefore when a society encounters another,the ensuing interaction results in an apparently new culture.
  I a ...
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  I missed the word dynamism from your article. Any mention of culture should be encased in its dynamic properties. Therefore when a society encounters another,the ensuing interaction results in an apparently new culture.
  I appreciate the point of citizen one to the effect of the shallow intellectual depth of our fore bearers, but the same is true for us presently (I mean you and I)Let's assume for the purposes of the argument that they were not smart, but we now are. The question now becomes: With the benefit of hind sight and the superior knowledge you posses, what have you done in your own individual capacity to arrest the tide. Note that it need not be the biggest of acts, but just the little ones. For example I had a western name given by my parents, but decided my kids bear local Ghanaian names living in a western society.
  The truth however is that whenever cultures collide, the dominant one is usually that which has the capacity to provide the best answers/solutions to the nagging questions of the day. This capability finds expression in the world view of the society and grants it acceptability and endorsement. It is therefore essentially a contest of ideas and I must admit the Ghanaian(African) society for that matter have little to show for their resilience as far as this battle is concerned. We are on a slippery slope and it just doesn't look good.

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• Afia Baffour-Awuah 10 years ago

  well said Dan,its really sad to see our cultural heritage overthrown by the Western civilisation

  well said Dan,its really sad to see our cultural heritage overthrown by the Western civilisation

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• Frederick 10 years ago

  Culture is said to be the oil that keeps society running. Tradition and knowledge have also been described in certain quarters as the main pillars of development and sustenance of communities and that no society can progress ...
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  Culture is said to be the oil that keeps society running. Tradition and knowledge have also been described in certain quarters as the main pillars of development and sustenance of communities and that no society can progress in the absence of the two.

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