OPINION Friday 14th August 2026
OPINION
Friday 14th August 2026
People are very much what they experience and circumstances usually have an impact on how people behave. A person who grew up with Italian parents in Italy may behave quite differently from a Nigerian person who grew up with Nigerian parents in Nigeria. The food, music, dressing, hairstyle, way of life, for instance, may be completely different and yet both could be very decent people.
If hypothetically it were feasible for the personality of one person to operate in the physique of the other and vice versa and the Italian person had never visited Nigeria or met any Nigerian or African and the Nigerian person had never visited Italy or met any Italian or European, then how much would the Nigerian with the personality of an Italian person behave like an Italian? How much would the Italian with the personality of a Nigerian person behave like a Nigerian? Would the Italian suddenly like Nigerian food, music and dress in local Nigerian clothing? Would the Nigerian suddenly like Italian food, music and dress with local Italian clothing? Most importantly, would the Nigerian just be able to speak Italian? Would the Italian just be able to speak a local Nigerian language?
It is not likely much of these would be feasible just like that. Therefore, it is my opinion that people have a lot to do with their experiences and how they react to those experiences and personality disorders do not change fundamentally who a person is and the way of life they have become accustomed to.
It is very important for people who feel marginalised for some reason to understand that their past circumstances are real, and it is not wrong to assess some of the present happenings as having something to do with prior experiences. However, circumstances and situations should be legally assessed on merit.

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