Suntou,
   
   They called this  Excel but don't rebel.
   
  Thank you or taking time to make this write up. This is good for reflection in times like these. The Gambia is shifting from collective assistance to individual sustainability.
   
  There is something wrong with our mentality of boastfulness. Where does it comes from? 
   
  Many Gambian I know travelled to Europe nd America to only become professional,qualified and experienced who humbly would come back home and work to develpe the country and help the underprevilege but this has change to Self need and Self greed. This is absolutely social blindness, narrow mindedness and unfair presentation.
   
  There are many people in The Gambia who are non-Gambian but share our ceremonial values but have no extended familes and do not share in all the spending spree that Gambians are into daily and nightly, weekly, monthly and all year round. These people can spend and save some. They display there savings in material possessions and The Gambians also want to have that. This lure them to have a material mentality of Money, Money, Money with the selfish idea of no-dividing but hiding to prosper alone. The culture of sharing which is the survival tool of a poor is drifting away.
  With this we will face a bitter future Culture of Doing-it-alone, no help.
   
  It is good to have an opion when somehing is not right. 
  For some people to HAPPEN is a big thing like The New Kid on the block
  But this all remind me of the song" Kill me I am Famous".
The end is near, it will not last.
  A change is gonna come. A revolution will come, I see it coming.
  Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
  Oko
   
   
   
   
   
  
SUNTOU TOURAY <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
  Thursday, 20 December 2007 OUR THIS CULTURE 
The cultures we have in the SeneGambia region need looking into.The whole system needs overhauling.From child upbringing to the mechanism of societal structures.Why is this our culture getting so messy and frosty ?
Parents desiring only material wealth from offspring's,they wish to flash the status thing.No one asks how the wealth is gain ,all the people want is MONEY ,MONEY,MONEY.

From the early 80's to present ,the SeneGambia travellers to the European countries create a climate a of false hope and huge desires.The Semester syndrome. Many a Mother and father taken to Mecca for hajj now a status symbol not a religious right.The wealth use to transport and support parents in hajj are usually very suspicious. But what clarification do the parents demand before using suspect wealth for a religious act ? none. Using unclean money for hajj is very serious.The parents act ignorant of the wrong ways most of this wealth is gain. In reality are they ignorant of the funny ways this tens of thousand of Dalasis are put together ?
I think not.

Why is it that our parents don't bother how they get fed,how they go on hajj ,the shoppings they do ,the philanthropic activities they engage in; why is it that they don't question the sources of this wealth?

I blame it this our culture .Our society has change so bad,all what matters now is money,money,money. Any how one gets it ,that doesn't matter. Just get it and do big things.
The traditional pillars of of our culture and societies; the parents are now into worldly material things equal to youngsters.

The concluded hajj will create another party chance.Yes a party chance.The hujaj will return back home shortly and the hundred thousand Dalasis plus spent of the hajj package will be increase by another welcoming party.The families in the SeneGambia will organise a family and friends together party for the new hajji. He/She will bring presents for all the family member ,this act of buying and thinking about what presents to buy is so stressful ,some hajjis lost touch with the real purpose of hajj itself.They keep thinking of what present to buy for the many family members.

Th real significance of hajj is lost .The time that should be spent on prayers and invocations are lost ,the time of meditation and self-analysis is lost .The hajj that should be an emotional journey end up being the most stressful time of that particular individual hajji's life.What happen to us ? After hajj one should change spiritualy for the better. ,but how many do change from their old wayward ways?

I blame it on our now culture of show off .The look at me mentality.The boastfulness culture.
The day when our parents use to be strong with both their male and female children is more or less lost. The days children use to be asked to explain were and why they have come home late is a matter of importance is lost .The hard work culture of our elders is more or less gone taken over by my son or daughter is in paradise Europe hopes.
The questioning of children is very tricky ,especially if that son or daughter is responsible for putting food on the table.Whether he/she romance old western ladies or old western men,whether he/she do the easy rider thing or not ,it doesn't matter much now,all the parents want is money.

Truth became clouded and very hard to tell.Loyalty and trust hardly no more.What happen to our culture ?

Event likes weddings,naming ceremonies are another avenues of wastage and bravado .The poor push them self to breaking point just to proof some thing.The sincere donations are largely not sincere. What happen to helping Friend Ous for the sake of God and friendship? What happen to us? I seek answers because i am young,i wish my children to grow up in a good society. I am not blaming any one, i am included in the derailing of our values .

What can we do to halt this situations ? many are doing things just to fulfil others expectations of them ,that need to change.


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