There is
always the ever-present tendency to see things from our own points of view.
Subjectively-driven, each tribe in Nigeria considers itself as the
leading light, the primus inter pares. This tendency is, however, not
restricted to Nigeria; it is a universal phenomenon.
In the
Chinese myth of origin, they consider themselves, like the Jews, as a chosen
people. They believe, parochially though, that God or the Divine Artificer
fashioned man in a furnace as cake is baked. Whereas other peoples of the
world were baked improperly, the Chinese people were a well-finished product.
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