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Be Proud of Your Heritage As An African - No single Culture has It All

I am from a country where many people hold their phones in their hands – some will hold two or three phones at a time. Curiosity may want you to ask why? Not because there are no phone pouch they could use, nor is it because their dress is without pockets – how will you know the type of phone they have if they keep it in their pocket? We have a culture where people like to show off because the amount of respect you get  many times is based on who you are, how much money you have, your position in the society, the type of car you drive, where you live, your cycle of friends, how well you speak and write English, a foreign language. The latter is more disturbing because many have equated the correctness of your spoken or written English to how smart you are. Some have picked on my grammatical correctness and I wonder what their point is. Whereas, many of this people cannot speak their mother tongue without diluting it with a foreign language – so if I borrow a leaf from this people, I w