He who tries to represent the behaviour or mindset of a people in words should endeavour to be as specific as possible, knowing that vague generalisations are usually not only inaccurate but more than likely to elicit very negative sentiments, hence so dangerous. I'll give you a true story:
Once, our friend Dummy was angry with the way a certain community matter was handled by SOME of our elders, and he was like: "Pa yi fi denj...." like, the elders of this community are [objectionable content removed].
Skinny got furious, like why the hell should Dummy disrespect our elders like that? He was gonna open up a can of whoop ass on him, but Spoonhead stopped him like, "whoa, wait Skinny!" Then he turned to Dummy and said to him in Fula: "akontee baba ma" (among which, your dad). Dummy went bonkers as if it wasn't him who started the whole BS.... man, it was a mini apocalypse.
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