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Culture is a way of life of people living in a confined environment with same mind and practice. Different people and communities have their respective way of living.
I'm a Nigerian and from the Niger Delta. I hailed from isoko north local government. Nigeria is filled with different tribes and with different way of living. We have different cultures right here in Nigeria which we normally displayed either through marriage or through ceremonies. The isoko migrated from the Benin to settle in the isoko land. Some other tribes were also migrated from Benin as well.
In my place, we have different cultures ranging from marriages to celebrations.
Marriage
The marriage aspect is in three different visits. The groom has to visit the bride's parents to be three consecutive and different times before the marriage right is performed.
The groom's first visit will be with his family members. He will take some of his family members including his father to the bride to be house where they have to make the bride known to the family of the groom. There is a culture which must be followed in my area. The bride's family had to entertain the groom family as a sign of entertaining someone you don't know before. The two families will enjoy themselves but in return, the groom's family will present their own part of the entertainment to the pride family. The culture remains that, whatever the groom's family are giving as entertainment must be twice that of the bride family. This they must serve together and eat and dine together.
After this process of entertainment, the groom's family had to open up the reason of their visit. This is the first visit.
The second visit will be introduction where the groom's family will come out with loads of gifts for the family of the bride. The gift can only be accepted if their daughter hive consent of approval.
This is the introductory aspect of it where the bride's family will give out the lists of how the marriage right will be performed.
The third visit is the aspect where the traditional marriage will be carried out. Both parents will be present to give their children blessings.
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There is a said amount they have to pay for the diary which happened to be a very little amount of money. The groom has to pay just #1500, in some locality, #300, while some pays #120 and some pays just #30. This was because, back in thee days, the diary is always in 3 Kobo. So, the trend is followed even up til now. This means that, it must be any amount ranging from the number 3.
This is my culture and how they get married.
The cultures I don't like supporting
There are some cultures which involves ritualists. This kind of culture is not the best ands I don't think supporting it should be part of me. Most villages have the culture of sacrificing human beings before they can coronate a king or when a kinds dies, there must be human sacrifice before such king can be buried. This is not a culture ones should support.
In some tribes, they have deviated and advanced from that level by changing the human rituals to animals which is normal and better.
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