Posted by Goose on February 09, 2008 at 06:35:39 from (199.184.119.22):
In Reply to: OT New Nigerian Scam posted by kyplowboy on February 09, 2008 at 01:49:02:
Don't condemn all Nigerians. I knew a sociology professor from Nigeria. Nobody can pronounce his name, so we all just called him "Dr. Olu". That was close enough.
While I was taking classes at the University of Nebraska, our daughter was attending Nebraska Wesleyan University, and she had Dr. Olu for one sociology class. I needed to interview someone from a different culture than my own for some paper or other, and our daughter suggested I interview Dr. Olu.
He was a fascinating gentleman. I spent an hour with him, and wished I could have spent the entire afternoon. He commented that after he came to the U.S., he did undergraduate work at a small college in Georgia. He told me that as a citizen of Nigeria, he was accepted by the local white community far more readily than by the local blacks. This led to speculation that the blacks in America have developed their own culture that excludes blacks from other countries.
He also told me that in his culture, he and I could live as next door neighbors for ten years and he would never, ever, call me by my first name, simply because I am older than he. I sometimes think we could use more of those formalities in America.
I'm well aware that Nigeria is a prolific breeding ground for an unbelievable number of scams, but not all apples in the barrel are rotten.
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