Respect is when you see an elder standing in a bus and offers your seat to him or her.
Respect is when you see an elderly or a rich person and bow, speak in low tones and mostly agree with what they have to say.
Respect is when you do not talk back when an elderly is talking no matter how unfair his or her statements are.
Respect is when you help elders carry their goods to their destination
Respect is when you call someone older than you, sister, brother, auntie, mother or father. Like Sister Dora, Bro. Akwesi etc. But you must be careful not to call people who are bent on not growing old mother, because then, they will be too angry and may give you the insults of your life.
Showing respect means heeding to the call of an elderly and subjecting yourself to being sent to do chores even if it is to run a hundred errands under the hot or rainy sun.
You do not use your left hand to receive anything from an elderly as it is very disrespectful.
You do not wave with the left hand.
You do not greet an elderly when it is obvious that you’re visiting the “white house” as in going to defecate.
You do not look in the eyes of the elderly when talking
You do not use gifts given to you in unappreciative ways, example, when you happen to be given a sponge as a gift, you do not use it to bath a dog. It is assumed that you are not appreciative of the gift so it is considered a form of disrespect to the giver.
In effect, you do what you are told to do anytime and you are considered respectful under the African skies especially in Ghana.
Will update this as and when I the rest come to me.
Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © 2014.
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