Persuasive Speech - Igbo culture and colonization (Things Fall Apart)
Hello and good evening
It is a great honor to have the opportunity to be invited to speak for one of the greatest community of all times. I want to congratulate the great British to success in breaking the boundaries between countries and spreading our great culture. On the other hand, the African tribes are now falling into altercations and frays on deciding which culture is 'real' for them and which one they should follow.
It is common for us to believe that following and preserving a 'real' culture is important; I mean who doesn't think that? Well, today, I want to share this one particular world that you might have, or, by high chance, not heard of. This world is a world where it is 'real' in every aspect. This world is where people believe the existence is a dual but interrelated phenomenon. A world where people believe death is not the end. A world where all forces interact to cause "good". A world where people believe more than one god. This world is called the 'Igbo Culture'.
We are living in a world where we colonize to cause good and to make people ordered in the standard of, at least what we call, the "real world". But, let me ask you this question: Is the world we are living a real one?
I was traveling in Africa to learn more about the 'real world'. Once, I was passing through one tribe where conflicts between the Church and the tribes were apparent due to the cultural differences. After all, the Church - westerners - won and consequently burnt the place down just because they held more power of technology.
Young ones were killed saying that they were just not smart enough. Men were tortured for being barbarians. Elders were left abandoned for believing in the wrong god.
All they had was a difference in the culture; they were not barbarians or people who worship the demons. However, we as colonizers, failed to recognize this fact.
We are colonizers who colonize various African ethnic groups to cause good to our great country and to the world itself. Yes; it is true that many African ethnic groups tend to have women as being inferior, and do acts that are not understandable for our common conscious such as killing twins. However, their acts that seemed unreasonable to us had deep religious reasons behind it. They have a faith in their Chi and their acts will cause good and prevent the anger of god.
We can say on the behalf of colonizers that we were trying to help them improve their life standards. But, to them, we are just a group of invaders who wants them to follow some unknown culture which consequently causes unwanted conflicts. We need to realize that we are not so "real" after all; a world becomes "real" when all different "worlds" collude together to form a giant real ideological world where every culture is respected.
Now, I will ask this question again; Is the world we are living a real one?
Thank you.
It is a great honor to have the opportunity to be invited to speak for one of the greatest community of all times. I want to congratulate the great British to success in breaking the boundaries between countries and spreading our great culture. On the other hand, the African tribes are now falling into altercations and frays on deciding which culture is 'real' for them and which one they should follow.
It is common for us to believe that following and preserving a 'real' culture is important; I mean who doesn't think that? Well, today, I want to share this one particular world that you might have, or, by high chance, not heard of. This world is a world where it is 'real' in every aspect. This world is where people believe the existence is a dual but interrelated phenomenon. A world where people believe death is not the end. A world where all forces interact to cause "good". A world where people believe more than one god. This world is called the 'Igbo Culture'.
We are living in a world where we colonize to cause good and to make people ordered in the standard of, at least what we call, the "real world". But, let me ask you this question: Is the world we are living a real one?
I was traveling in Africa to learn more about the 'real world'. Once, I was passing through one tribe where conflicts between the Church and the tribes were apparent due to the cultural differences. After all, the Church - westerners - won and consequently burnt the place down just because they held more power of technology.
Young ones were killed saying that they were just not smart enough. Men were tortured for being barbarians. Elders were left abandoned for believing in the wrong god.
All they had was a difference in the culture; they were not barbarians or people who worship the demons. However, we as colonizers, failed to recognize this fact.
We are colonizers who colonize various African ethnic groups to cause good to our great country and to the world itself. Yes; it is true that many African ethnic groups tend to have women as being inferior, and do acts that are not understandable for our common conscious such as killing twins. However, their acts that seemed unreasonable to us had deep religious reasons behind it. They have a faith in their Chi and their acts will cause good and prevent the anger of god.
We can say on the behalf of colonizers that we were trying to help them improve their life standards. But, to them, we are just a group of invaders who wants them to follow some unknown culture which consequently causes unwanted conflicts. We need to realize that we are not so "real" after all; a world becomes "real" when all different "worlds" collude together to form a giant real ideological world where every culture is respected.
Now, I will ask this question again; Is the world we are living a real one?
Thank you.
I see that you have not written quite a lot for this task. Nonetheless you have executed this task well to an extent. You have explained details of what an ordinary Igbo yet you have missed out quite a lot of the important anecdotes that have changed the way the Igbos lived over the colonailism era. You need to put a bit more effort into your work.
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