Comments by "Morenito Moreno" (@morenitomoreno1282) on "Kamaru Usman Tells Joe Why Nigerians Are the Most Successful Immigrants" video.

  1. ApeHead it's because of US strict immigration policies, they only allow highly educated people from countries like Nigeria or India in so it's give people the impression everybody in those countries is a doctor or a rich business man when the poverty in those countries is staggering
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  2. Most Nigerians(Africans in general) who are allowed in the US come from wealthy, highly educated families.
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  3. Emeka Iheanacho my point was, the majority of nigerian population is extremely poor, Nigerian Americans usually come from rich families
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  4. Emeka Iheanacho just cause youve got a handful of billionaires and millionaires doesn't change the fact the vast majority of the population is extremely poor.
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  5. Ancar Willis you still don't get it, the fact that you can point to a handful of wealthy people in Nigeria doesn't change the fact the vast majority of the population is poor and the fact you can point to poor areas in the states doesn't change the fact Nigeria is even poorer, again only somebody who comes from money would be offended at people pointing out this reality, if you were not from a rich Nigerian family what I'm saying would be obvious and you'd just acknowledge how hard life is in Nigeria for the vast majority of the population. Rich people in the US do it too, they point to the stock market doing well to claim the whole country is doing well when the stock market doing well only means wealthy people are making even more money, while the majority of Americans are still living check to check and absolutely nothing has changed for them. How many poor people are gonna benefit from Eko planet? And I didn't say Nigerians don't come because of merit, au contraire, I'm saying highly educated or/and rich immigrants have more chance to be accepted. And no one is talking about how destitute China is? I've read countless articles about the abject conditions in which poor Chinese workers live in seen many documentaries about the authoritarian Chinese government mistreating its poor population. And I've seen the videos of the wealthy neighborhoods of Abuja and people trying to make it look like it was representative of the whole city when again, that's for a handful of people the reality for the vast majority of the population is more like this https://youtu.be/T1kkt2NHUOI stop sugarcoating and shilling for wealthy Nigerians their lives are very different from the rest of the population. imagine filming in Hollywood and pretend people from Compton to Watts to East LA live like that as well? People would find it ridiculous so why you're doing that with Nigeria?
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  6. Ancar Willis and I'm French, my family is from Cameroon and I've travelled every continent but Oceania but this is irrelevant to this specific conversation, you don't need to travel to Nigeria to know that the vast majority of the population is very poor even by Nigeria standard just like you don't need to travel to the US to know is the "modern nation" with the biggest income inequalities, the worst healthcare system, the worst in terms of social mobility, the country economist had to create the term "4th world" for, and to point to countries in the world where things are worse or do some relativism like you do about Nigeria says a lot about a person, as i said only someone with money would present things this way "they are blowing Nigerias poverty out of proportion" really? And its clear you see the word "poverty" as pejorative, demeaning or insulting "it's unfair they talk about poverty in Nigeria more than they talk about poverty in China" such a weird mindset, the way I see it they should talk more about poverty in China not less about poverty in Nigeria personally I don't wanna hear about corrupted billionaires like Dankote and I think it's abject and a threat to democracy for people like him to have so much money given the political power it gives them especially in a country like Nigeria, and please don't give me the "he worked hard for it" argument, he didn't work 10 billion times more than the average Nigerian citizen,that's a ridiculous proposition, nobody "earns" that amount of money, he just benefited from a system that allows it. I guess we just have different political views.
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  7. The Future Is set they are the minority then
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  8. Ancar Willis I don't know why you're trying to sugarcoat it, the vast majority of the Nigerian population is extremely poor, there's no large middle class, you have a handful of billionaires and millionaires, a handful of people in the middle and everybody else is struggling with no government safety net as you pointed out yourself. And Eko Atlantic is for rich people and and a few thousands of working class people who are gonna be working there, there are tens of millions of people living in poverty in Nigeria, Akons project is more valuable, there's criticism about the funding... but his project is much more helpful to the people than Eko planet, to use it to show that the people of Nigeria is doing well is like pointing to les Champs élysées in France and go "you see, poverty is not that big a issue in France", I'm almost 100% sure you come from money, only well to do people frame things this way
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  9. SharpTechno well I'm not too proud to admit when I'm wrong and I've read your comments about Nigerian immigration to the US being a bit more complex an issue than people think, so please tell me about it, I thought most Nigerian immigrants to the US either already had diplomas or went to the states to study, found a job there and stayed or were already successful business people in Nigeria, how do the US authorities allow you in if you're neither of those?
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