https://www.reddit.com/r/Zimbabwe/comments/1j6w1io/my_advice_to_zimbabweans/
created by ChatGodPT on 09/03/2025 at 01:08 UTC*
69 upvotes, 7 top-level comments (showing 7)
Zimbabweans in diaspora…
Who are Zimbabweans? They’re formally educated Africans who’ve experienced overwhelming economic challenges.
The advantage of education is that people become open minded. The advantages of poverty is that people become resilient. The combined factors result in a “I can do anything” mindset.
The disadvantage of education is that people become slavers of the system. The disadvantage of poverty is that people become hopeless. The combined factors result in a “I’m a hopeless slave” mindset. This mindset often makes the first mindset obsolete.
These two mindsets can’t coincide but the takeaway from the second mindset is that you have a mission to succeed and uplift your mentally tormented and depressed nation. Fortunately because of the first mindset (I can do anything) you have the tools.
Honestly I really try to be humble because my experience in Zimbabwe makes me feel superior to most Americans (where I live) in terms of common sense, decision making and hard work. But my negative side (hopeless slave) sometimes makes me feel like there’s no hope.
But whenever you think there is no hope slap yourself or even punch yourself if you have to and remind yourself that you’re taking opportunity for granted. There are African billionaires who were literally homeless in the diaspora but passionately achieved greatness out of knowing where they came from.
So next time you feel challenged by circumstances or challenges tell yourself “I’m Zimbabwean”, I can handle it”. Yes life is expensive here and it’s very lonely and stressful (I’m also struggling) but when you think of where you came from those are just excuses.
Of course some will downvote (manifesting their excuses) but I hope this reaches someone who needs inspiration. If I didn��t know it’s not easy I wouldn’t bother. Action action takaenda. Only WE can make a change not Zanu. I repeat, we are Zimbabwean.
❤️✌️🇿🇼
Comment by Old_Faithlessness449 at 09/03/2025 at 06:39 UTC
25 upvotes, 4 direct replies
Sometimes I feel like our resilience as Zimbabweans is also our weakness. We endure everything with that “it will be ok, and I will fight” mentality. That’s why we would rather buy and Install solar panels, Have boreholes drilled, Go buy groceries in South Africa. We are obsessed with surviving no matter what. But for how long? The reason I am staying away from having kids is because I don’t want to perpetuate to endless cycle of survivors. After all I have and still am going through, I can’t justify bringing another person into this world just to do the same. Zimbabweans are in survival mode from birth to the day they die. This Zimbabwean resilience we have, might be what’s causing us more problems.
Comment by TheMthwakazian at 09/03/2025 at 07:37 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I love this, Zimbabwe needs this indeed!
Comment by Chocolate_Sky at 09/03/2025 at 04:21 UTC
4 upvotes, 1 direct replies
If you don’t mind, how are you finding life in USA?
Comment by ApprehensiveWar119 at 09/03/2025 at 04:07 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
You are right. We need more of this motivation as a people. I feel sometimes we get overwhelmed by present circumstances and forget who we are. We even forget our place in Africa and the world. We come from those who built Mtapa and Great Zimbabwe. That counts for something. What we’ve been through; Smith, Mugabe, 2008, 2017 and now puts us at some advantage in the world. We know how to survive. We don’t easily despair, we soldier on. We need to turn all that pain that we’ve endured into a relentless drive for success similar to the independence mentality of turning arms into plough shares…..Happy Sunday
Comment by Connect_Entrance_644 at 09/03/2025 at 21:00 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
We were brainwashed with the whole ‚rambai makashinga propaganda‘.
Comment by Little_Mycologist_82 at 09/03/2025 at 05:32 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
This is rich. Thanks
Comment by Icy_Oil_4810 at 09/03/2025 at 05:12 UTC
1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Amana ndipei link rekuti ndibude pakaipa. Mari handina asi I finished A Level last year.