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**wrewsTear** · 03-15-2012, 04:12 AM

In principle, ethnic homogeneity is usually a good thing for a country's development and stability. However, it is often very hard to draw clean borders between ethnicities in Africa, and I think most major cities are multi-ethnic by now. This solution is just not practically feasible. Perhaps a better idea would be to gradually adopt the neutral lingua franca (English, Swahili, French) as a native language, thus allowing a national identity to develop across tribal backgrounds.

Indeed I do agree in some ways...though having a foreign language as a native language really takes away their pride. I know Maasai and Turkana people who proudly refuse to speak English or Swahili because it is not part of their culture.
That's like having Germany speaking English as its native language, that would truly demoralize them in some way or another. Their history be fuked!

03-15-2012, 04:12 AM	#15
wrewsTear Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 401 Senior Member	In principle, ethnic homogeneity is usually a good thing for a country's development and stability. However, it is often very hard to draw clean borders between ethnicities in Africa, and I think most major cities are multi-ethnic by now. This solution is just not practically feasible. Perhaps a better idea would be to gradually adopt the neutral lingua franca (English, Swahili, French) as a native language, thus allowing a national identity to develop across tribal backgrounds. Indeed I do agree in some ways...though having a foreign language as a native language really takes away their pride. I know Maasai and Turkana people who proudly refuse to speak English or Swahili because it is not part of their culture. That's like having Germany speaking English as its native language, that would truly demoralize them in some way or another. Their history be fuked!
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