Recently, there has been a lot of talk about how “negative
ethnicity” is destroying the country. Ok, I get it. Saying that because I am
Luo I will only vote for another Luo is not very proper and saying that all
Kikuyus are thieves is downright absurd. Still, I do not understand negative
ethnicity. Someone in the media invented that statement and it is very wrong
but has been allowed to stay in our daily discourse. Why? Because Kenyans are
generally idiots, that’s why.
What is (negative) “ethnicity?”
eth·nic·i·ty (
th-n
s
-t
)
th-ns-t)
noun
1. Ethnic character,
background, or affiliation.
2. An ethnic group.
So, how can an affiliation or
background be negative? Can you say Negative Mountain or negative Kamba or
negative fish? What these media people are trying to say would be best
described by the word ethnocentrism.
eth·no·cen·trism (th
n
-sntrz
m)
thn-sntrzm)
noun
1. Belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic
group.
This is the
correct description of what Kenyans call negative ethnicity. Politicians, news
casters, fools, priests… all of them are just as misguided on this.
This just another
example of Kenyans foolishly accepting what the media say as being the truth
and irrefutably correct. My opinion on this… read a fuckin’ book!
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