Sorry for the slow reply, I really wanted to reply to you in particular cause you left me two awesome comments in 3 days.
I want to see more people, as you say, carry themselves together, not only based on nationality or ethnicity, just based on the fact that we are humans. It's hard to do it across all borders because shitty resource distribution creates a massive cultural gap (which is one of the things I was indirectly talking about here) and most people all over the world are too busy trying to figure out how to survive to care about what happens elsewhere.
I guess where I'm different is that people are one of my biggest passions and I would like one of the main focuses of my life to help them understand each other better. It's tricky cause I can't force them and sometimes I get drained because I also need to figure out how to make it sustainable.
As for hive...you can often find other reasons but I think people are not curious enough. From my perspective, Nigeria gets generous upvotes considering there aren’t any Naija whales, but it's kind of out of pity, or from curators who curate randomly.
I think there are probably more Nigerians here than any other country, some do great and some not so well. And it’s not always about quality but that goes for all of us.
I really hate the idea of supporting people out of pity. If I am giving it’s because someone has gained my respect or is authentic or original or I think they deserve more than they are getting. I don’t want to pity Africans even if they’ve had it hard, because pity doesn’t allow for equal relationships.
I know this is an awkward topic which is why I feel I need to express it, because if I don’t, most westerners will not. It has to do with the passion that I mentioned above.
We are kind of lucky at hive because nobody cares about any of us, at least those of us us who don’t have massive wallets or go trending often (I know my Hp is more than a lot of people here, but most larger accounts don’t care what I’m doing lol).
Anyways, I hope your friend stays with it and feels better about hive. It’s a strange grind but we can learn a lot from it