Saturday, April 28, 2007
Joking Cousins
In most guide books about Senegal, they talk about "joking cousins." If someone is your actual cousins or you are cousins according to your last name or even your ethnic group, it gives you full license to tease and "joke." They say that this is why Senegal is a peaceful country. Although there are many different ethnic groups and quite a few distinct languages, everyone gets along because everything is considered a joke. (My personal favorite "jokes" are to call our Jaxanke volunteers either cats or hyennas. Everyone here hates cats because they roam around the streets and cause havoc along with dogs and pigs.) Anyway, it is interesting to think about... Senegal does have a drastically different feeling from South Africa. Perhaps "joking cousins" is one reason although I am positive that different colonial experiences also has something to do with it.
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Maybe there needs to be a joking cousin initiative started around the world, bringing peace to the far corners of the earth.
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I wonder if it's prevalent the the region of West Africa...I hear Ghanaian people are friendly too; I will sure keep you posted when I study abroad there!
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