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 which way?  This piece is a prelude to a series of personal views I intend to share on this blog weekly. The focus would be on our attitudes as Ghanaians touching on issues concerning our politics, culture and society, music, language, our thought process among others. The write up below is limited to the family set up and our socialization process. Feel free to share your thoughts. After all this is my personal stance ! The social direction of every society is determined by individual social characteristics which often come with self identification. And this forms a greater part of one’s personality. When one is able to identify himself or herself, then it comes down to the identification with the larger society. The concept of social integration generally affects the behavioural patterns of citizens, and these in turn either affect them adversely or favourably. The process of identifying with society and where the values and norms of every civic group are handed down to ...

I found this quite interesting and felt it ought to be shared more so since I’m a language ardent We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes; but the plural of ox became oxen not oxes. One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, yet the plural of moose should never be meese. You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice; yet the plural of house is houses, not hice. If the plural of man is always called men, why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen? If I spoke of my foot and show you my feet, and I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet? If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth? Then one may be that, and three would be those, yet hat in the plural would never be hose, and the plural of cat is cats, not cose. We speak of a brother and also of brethren, but though we say mother, we never say methren. Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, but imagine the feminine,...