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Zimbabwe has lost its culture and its too bad

07 Sep 2017 at 10:14hrs | Views
Cultural decay is when a culture no longer holds any value to the youth of the period and is slowly cast aside in favor of new trends. ... The effects would be anarchy and mayhem.

It is when a culture no longer holds any value to the youth of the period and is slowly cast aside in favor of new trends. This can be good and bad depending on what is being lost and gained.

Zimbabwe has adopted a very bad culture and we do not know where it has come from. Zimbabweans used to be known to be loving and totally human country. Now the culture is so archaic and has decayed. The smell of the behaviour smells to the upmost high. The animalism which has enveloped the nation stinks from the top.

The Social Media was awash with an interview of a nine year old who is in total prostitution. She narrates how she has a long term boyfriend who protects her if a customer refuses to pay. She painfully explains how she spends the night with a client for two dollars. I found my tears flowing down my chicks. What has happened to our country. What has happened to guidance. Why Zimbabwe why? The morality has been blown in the air. Zimbabwe has become a brothel a dark hole?

I found myself asking. Where is the minister of youth and culture. What is he doing. A nine year old sales her body for a dollar. She says it without any shame. What is happening. Our minister of youth spends time defending a nak*d woman from South Africa. He has his hair twisted to his brains. No action was taken nothing at all.

Zimbabwe has groups like girl child. They are all quiet it makes one wonder if these organisations have the girl children at heart such decay must be arrested now.

Zimbabwe has seen a great rise in the attack of the police. If people see a thief fighting a policeman the chances are they will start fighting the policeman. Videos of police officers being assaulted kidnapped or killed are doing rounds on social media. The people celebrate the thrashing of a policeman. The law seems to turn a blind eye when its own enforcement agencies are at the receiving end.

Things have fallen apart In the beloved country. Cities are turned to be brothels and devils play ground. Both the populations of those cities and their crime victims are predominantly middle aged. Each year, more than 7,000 people are being murdered in a gruesome manner.

Children have been turned to prostitution. Coupled with being most of the nation's homicide victims, middle aged people are also most of the victims of violent personal crimes, such as assault and robbery and rape and murder.

The magnitude of this tragedy can be seen in another light. Police need more protection from those they protect. The predicament of the Police started when police were left to their own.

The country has witnessed a surge in murders. This is because nobody is caring. But people who want to weaken our Social fabric are surprisingly leaders. Decay starts from those who are supposed to safeguard it.

People have lost any shred of humanity. Elementary-school children have been suspended or otherwise disciplined for drawing a picture of a male organ or pointing a finger and saying, "Bang, bang."

I shudder to think about what would happen to kids in a few years Maybe today's politically correct educators would cut the kids a bit of slack if they said they were exercising their rights. What explains a lot of what we see today, which politicians and their liberal allies would never condemn, is growing cultural deviancy and cultural decay.

These days 73% of children are born to unmarried women. And men. Bastardism is encouraged. There are no norms to whip the errant people. People are rewarded for truancy.

The absence of a husband and father from the home is a strong contributing factor to poverty, school failure, crime, drug abuse, emotional disturbance and a host of other social problems. By the way, the low marriage rate is relatively new. People are congratulated for not marring or for divorcing. Our culture has been soiled. The higher poverty rates are among unmarried families.

Other forms of cultural deviancy are found in the kind of music accepted today that advocates killing and rape and other vile acts.

Punishment for criminal behaviour is lax. Today's Zimbabwe accept behaviour that our parents and grandparents never would have accepted.

Zimbabwe has seen idiots taking advantage of Children. Laws are more encouraging than punitive.

The morals have decayed. People will take photos while you die. Why? At a scene of an accident people pull out their phones to capture the agony of the victims. They then flash the photos around with pride. If they see a man drowning they all rush to take photos no sense of humanity. The country has gone to dogs.

Senior ministers sit down to discuss a nak*d woman coming to Zimbabwe and no one talks about the nine year old making money out of prostitution. Where is the country going to. I am seriously in pain to even imagine what goes around in our society.

We are now a country of Zero morals zero compassion and zero humanity. No feelings not sense and surely not people. If one gets into trouble fired from work or involved into any bad situation, the news of your misfortunes fly faster than light. Those who do not usually phone you will start texting you talking about the plight. They make sure they forward the bad news to every one with an ear or an eye to read. Some will surely shout to graves and say did you hear this. Your problems is their news and your dying is their joy.

Bad news is no longer peddled but fast tracked. The moment you get a call from a long lost contact it means you have the cloud of bad news on you and you indeed are the talk of town.

The nation takes time to make jokes out of the plight of others and reward the evil doer. How can we eradicate such social decay. Our country and its people are now cursed.

Surely we are in a big social decay.

Vazet2000@yahoo.co.uk

Source - Dr Masimba Mavaza
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