Moral Decadence in Modern Day Youths
“Respect is Reciprocal” as the saying goes or should it be put as went, because it has now become a thing of the past, not because it is no longer being mentioned, but the emphasis on it seem to have been at its barest minimum.
The people of the South West of Nigeria are known to be the most respectful sect in the nation, but over the years, it has become a difficulty for a Yoruba child to wake up in the morning and prostrate face flat on the ground to greet their parents or elders for the guys or completely kneel down for the girls.
Manners imbibed at home definitely have an impact on who a person is on the outside.
One popular tradition in those days is the inability of children to start eating on the dining tables before their Dad start.
Bringing that into the modern dinners or high class societies, you would not try eating until the convener of the dinner starts of give you the go ahead.
Some people have mistaken some of such moves of impatience as part of modernization while it is simply moral decadence.
More of this is attributed to the dying cultures in Nigeria.
A larger percentage of Nigerian youths do not know how to speak their native language even when they stay in the midst of their fellow natives.
How would a child who is not necessitated at one point or the other to learn his/her language learn the cultures of his society? It has gotten so bad that majority of the modern day youths do not know where their ancestral fathers originated from.
How long will this go on?
How long will this decadence go on?
A lot of abnormalities in our society have had their roots imbedded in the lack of home training.
As much as the children are to blame, majority of the blame falls on the parents.
While some do not fancy teaching their children how a right thinking person should behave, so simply do not even bother creating the time to teach these lessons.
Who then will these children learn other than from the majority (untrained youths). A lot have to be done in educating the over job-obsessed parents who have been the major contributors to the moral decadence in our society.
A lot can be done to curb this moral decadence called disrespect but the root cause which happen to be the home must be addressed.
Cultural values must be preached in schools if parents refuse to perform their fundamental values, before we permanently loose our society to activities of the western world, which is in deep contrast to what every right thinking Nigerian is meant and brought up to follow.
WRITTEN BY : ORHERHE EJIRO
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