Culture and Modernity among the Dinkas (Part 2)
By Amer Mayen Dhieu, Australia
NYIIR KE AUSTRALIA: THE LANGUAGE OPTIMISTS.
I have heard many people shouting this kind of word but literally put my attention into it until this morning on my way to work. The view about nyiir ke Australia especially from those who travel to Overseas mostly Africa has been full of negativity lately. This short article highlights some keywords use by people in their daily basis.
By illustration, I focus my writing on both negative and positive point of views.
1- NYIIR KE AUSTRALIA ACE NYIIR. This phrase especially in Jieeng interpretation is not just one words but one word with different meanings. It either means they have no girls’ traditional values, aa cin piooth (don’t know what that is coz people with no hearts die) or ace reer baai and all negatives sort of stuffs. Well the truth is nyiir ke Australia aye nyiir just like other girls in global countries however they might differ from girls in Africa, Middle East or Asia.
The reason is that the environment has an impact on social learning. and if you view them base on your residential perspectives it would give you nothing but a negative thoughts about them. Consider the fact these girls have literally spend much time in a purely jieeng dominant society and had mostly spend the rest of their life with different cultures. As I mentioned before social learning has no restrained. its what you saw where you are that determine what you do.
Consider how jieeng often say kene e menh baai ku kene ee menh wur. These two different mith act differently regardless of them growing up in the same country. If you take menh baai to wut people of wut will definitely know that this person came from somewhere else. How they determined is base on menh baai way of doing thing and how the people of wut came in conclusion is base on them judging menh baai according to their way of doing things.
We all have our original cultures but bear in mind that these cultures remains a stories to tell. They are less developing and soon will be less considered. I have heard of people talking about jieeng culture, the main important of a certain culture is language and for them who knows their languages knows their cultures.
2. NYIIR KE AUSTRALIA AYE THIEEK REECH. One important nyiir ke Australia consider is who the getting married to and who they date. Nyiir ke Australia don’t just get married for the sake of getting married or making a family. What they first consider are similarities. If they are not matching then you are not their type.
Nyiir ke Australia consider their happiness as number one priority because ones happiness means happy couple and happy couple mean happy family. This happiness came with who they getting married to. I wouldn’t say there are bad men out there or good men either but what determine one goodness is what he does to the family and relatives. When one married his choice I believed they can stay forever happy and they can be called good couple.
Another thing that nyiir ke Australia consider much is age difference and attitudes though Pachol says acin moc ee dhiop ke brain or perspective can change with age. Marrying way older person had effect on the family way of doing things. Assume that many things that young people meant to do are view as immature by adult people. This can cause clashes of interest between the couple. Again there are some older people that Nyiir ke Australia don’t mind to get married to. This older people are those who put themselves into young people shoes. Those who understand their feelings, their actions and their interest.
It’s important to consider who you are before applying for a date from Nyiir ke Australia because they focus on their interest than men.
3. WHO ARE CHALLENGING NYIIR KE AUSTRALIA. It would be mean to say this, but those who challenge nyiir ke Australia too much are them who didn’t get any chance to date them base on what I have just mentioned. Please consider this article was written in collective point of view. The Author has apologised in advance for any inconvenience to anyone out there.
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