Are you raising a bully?

 

 

Stop humiliating your kids

Like death and taxes, your kid screwing up is inevitable. And when they are little, it’s cute. My daughter with her hands on her hips, telling me “I ‘issapointed in you, mom!” never fails to make me laugh.  But research shows that a toddler’s self-control is one of the first and earliest predictors of success. And how you go about teaching your child that self-control can have a profound impact on the rest of their life.

One popular form of discipline is public humiliation. Images of parents dressing like their teenage daughters in short skirts or sons standing on the side of the road with signs announcing their sins to passersby have gone viral. And while it may be tempting to post a picture of your toddler on Facebook with a caption announcing, “My name is Roxie and I poop on the floor.”—think again.  Publicly shaming your child can have a profound impact on their psyche.

According to a recent article in Time:

Studies consistently show, for example, that children whose parents used humiliation to discipline them grew up to be less confident and more prone to mental health disorders such as anxiety and depression.  And shaming connected with an issue related to sexuality—like making your daughter stand in public with a sign related to a racy dance move—may lead to even more damaging effects.  While repeated and blatant humiliation is the most dangerous, experts say that even rare or minor humiliations can do harm.

And the risk is more than just your child. A child with poor impulse control is more likely to become a bully and act out their aggression on others.  Children who become bullies often have many characteristics in common, including inconsistent discipline at home and a lack of self-esteem. In sum, research shows what we all intuitively know: If you teach your child violence, they will be violent. If you teach your child shame, they will shame others. No one wants to think of their child as the aggressor. But the truth is, how we model discipline becomes our child’s model for the world. And as parents our first test comes when the first tantrum is thrown, the first tiny fist is raised in rage.

Right after my son, my second child, was born, I was exhausted.  Running low on patience and, well, everything, I found myself yelling at my daughter. And not just yelling—full-on screaming. I wasn’t proud of myself. My husband would come home and find me in tears, frustrated at both myself and my daughter who was finding new and creative ways to act out. One day, after a particularly rough morning, we were at the park and I caught her screaming at some other children. Maybe she would have screamed regardless, but watching my child model my behavior was a wakeup call.  True, we can’t be perfect all the time; nor should we place that expectation on our own shoulders or the shoulders of other parents. But when we screw up, I think it’s important to acknowledge that behavior to our children and apologize. Holding ourselves to the standard that we hold them to.

Lyz Lenz

Babyzone.com

October 30, 2013

 

 

 

Teenagers Prove Fickle When Choosing Social Networks



Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times

Over the last decade, teenagers have had several preferred social networks.

We know a lot about teenagers online. They ❤ emojis. They love GIFs — or “jifs,” depending on how you prefer to pronounce the word. And they love taking selfies.

While we know all this about today’s teenagers, pinning down where they want to share this content is much more difficult. Teenagers, it seems, are incredibly fickle with the social networks they want to become B.F.F.s with.

Last year, reports consistently found that they were not very interested in Twitter and instead were unhealthily addicted to Facebook. Now that seems to be flipping.

As Bianca Bosker of The Huffington Post wrote on Wednesday, Piper Jaffray’s semi-annual report on the habits of American teenagers, released this month, suggests that Twitter is a more important social network to teenagers than Facebook.

Researchers surveyed 8,650 teens with an average age of 16 and found that only 23 percent now see Facebook as the most important social network, down from 33 percent six months ago, and 42 percent last year.

But Facebook doesn’t have too much to worry about. While 16-year-olds might be abandoning the site, they are not traveling too far. Many are continuing to take their smartphone selfies and pictures of sunsets to Instagram, which is owned by Facebook.

But why leave Facebook for its younger, less popular sister site?

Another report from Pew Research, published this year, said that teens were flocking to Instagram and Twitter because they found it easier to be open and expressive, which they said was more difficult on Facebook.

“Teens who used sites like Twitter and Instagram reported feeling like they could better express themselves on these platforms, where they felt freed from the social expectations and constraints of Facebook,” the report said.

The Pew report said that Twitter “has grown significantly” in 2012, with 24 percent of online teens now using Twitter, up from 16 percent in 2011.

But all of this doesn’t really mean much. Remember the social network MySpace? Well if you do, most teenagers today don’t.

A 2006 survey by Pew Research found that 85 percent of teenagers online had a MySpace account. Today, only 7 percent of teens maintain an account there.

So what’s a start-up to do? Often companies like Facebook and Twitter are caught between the conundrum of trying to increase the number of users on the service, but in doing so, they invite parents, which deter teenagers who don’t want to be seen socializing with a bunch of stuffy old people.

Or, as it was best summed up by a teenager interviewed in the Pew Research report: “Yeah, that’s why we go on Twitter and Instagram [instead of Facebook]. My mom doesn’t have that.”

Nick Bilton

New York Times

October 26, 2013.

When can you retire? Some say never.

 Many Americans don't  expect to ever retire. (Photo: Thinkstock)

In a sign of just how bleak retirement prospects have gotten, more than a third of Americans say they will have to work until they literally can't anymore.

A new Wells Fargo study found that 37% of people don't ever expect to retire, but instead will have to "work until I'm too sick or die." Survey respondents say paying the monthly bills is their highest priority, and saving for retirement is a distant second.

"There were a couple of points I found shocking or troubling," says Laurie Nordquist, head of Wells Fargo Institutional Retirement and Trust. "One is the increase in the number of people who say paying bills was their top day-to-day concern."

That's especially concerning, because the economy has improved in the last few years. "The middle class is not feeling it when it comes to their own situations," she says.

The annual Wells Fargo Middle Class Retirement study, a telephone survey conducted by Harris Interactive of 1,000 middle-class Americans between the ages of 25 and 75, was released Wednesday. Highlights:

• 59% say their top day-to-day concern is paying the bills

• 42% say both saving and paying the bills is not possible

• 48% are not confident they will be able to save enough for a comfortable retirement

• 34% say they will have to work until they are at least 80 because they have not saved enough.

"Americans are great bill-payers, but they are horrible savers," says Michael Chadwick, CEO of Chadwick Financial Advisors in Unionville, Conn. "People have to start saving, even when things are difficult. There is never an easy time."

On the upside, half the survey respondents said they are confident that they will have enough for retirement. "The good news we saw was the difference that having a (financial) plan makes," Nordquist says. "If they had a plan, they saved three times more than those without a plan."

She says it's a misconception that financial plans are only for the wealthy: 45% of those who did not have a plan said it was because they have so few assets. "Everyone needs a plan, regardless of income level," she says.

Chadwick says most people who visit him to begin retirement plans are already in their 50s, and he tells them it's never too late.

"If you don't have assets and you have difficulty meeting you monthly bills, it makes it difficult to sit down and plan to save," says Ken Moraif, senior adviser at Money Matters in Plano, Texas. "The fact that you have difficulties and challenges is an even bigger reason why you should have a plan. Until you do that, you will never get out of the circumstances that you are in."

Rodney Brooks

USA Today

October 24, 2013

Corruption in Comoros

 

A Customs Office in Moroni

The Union of Comoros is ranked by Transparency International as one of the most corrupted countries in Africa. Corruption is everywhere in the country, particularly in the Public Administration. There are three main causes of corruption in the Comorian Public Administration.

The civil servants are the agents who work for the government. This means their sole income is the salary they receive from the government, which is actually very low. To illustrate, a Bachelor graduate starts with a salary of 500 U.S. dollars at the beginning of his career. This salary is not sufficient for the public agent to look after his family because of the high cost of living in the country.

In fact, one of the underlying causes of corruption, according to many experts, is low public officials’ salary. They argue that public officials generally accept a low salary only if they already know that they can accumulate bribes. For instance, many Comorian graduates in economics or finances generally accept low wages in the Comorian Customs Office because they know that they can collect bribes. Additionally, high inflation is an integral part of the civil servant’s difficult life. While prices are increasing on an average of 15% yearly, the governmental salary stagnates.

Lastly, there is not a credit card system in the Comorian banks that allows the public employee to survive temporarily by buying goods or services and paying for them later. Because of the low salary, the public civil servant is inclined to corruption by misusing the public utilities such as office supplies and equipment, the telephone, the car, or trying to get money from people for any service offered.

Irregular payment is another factor that causes corruption in the Comorian public administration. Since the independence of the country from France in 1975, the civil servants have never been paid regularly because of insufficient revenues in the government’s budget. Every year, there are at least three or four months the government does not pay.

 In order to survive, the public agent is obliged to borrow money from friends or traders. Consequently, many agents are deeply in debt. As a result, stealing and selling office supplies and equipment are common. For instance, many used government vehicles that are supposed to be repaired are sold to friends and traders. 

Last of all, impunity for the corruptors encourages others to do the same thing because they are sure that the law will never punish them. To illustrate, some ministers, many public company managers, and public office directors are accused of mismanagement or bribes with traders and foreign investors. They are sometimes suspended and replaced, but never judged by the justice of the country.

For example, in the 1990s, a former finance minister who was accused of taking bribes from a foreign company stated in the media that he had just taken a little bit. He was then nicknamed ‘‘Mr. Little Bit,’’ but he has never been judged.  Recently in 2007, a former governor got an 18-month suspended prison term and a fine for fraud. There were also charges of corruption among the security forces.

As has been noted, corruption in the Comorian public service is due to low salary, irregular payments, and impunity among the civil servants. In 2012, the Union of Comoros was ranked 133 out of 180 countries by the Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index survey. This corruption harms the development of the country and weakens the state.

In 2010, the members of the Comorian Parliament legislated against corruption. In order to enforce the law against corruption, the Comorian government has recently set up an Anticorruption Committee. Since its creation two years ago, thirty cases of corruption have been revealed in the public administration.

 Last December 2011, a religious leader implicated in an alcoholic beverages company trying to intervene for the reopening of its activities, was arrested, judged and sent in jail. After a new trial on appeal, the jury found a very little evidence against him. The religious leader was hence released on February 2012. However, for many other cases, the Comorian justice has done nothing until now.

Recently the General Accounting Office was hearing many dignitaries and former officials about the eventual misuse of many millions dollars generated by the sale of the Comorian citizenships between 2009 and 2011. The hearing resulted in the arrest of the director general of the police last week. Can the Anticorruption Committee succeed in its mission? Time will tell.

 

 

Who owns English in a global market?

Spring International Language Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas 2012

 

A squabble –a civilized one, this being the financial times- occurred beneath one of my recent columns. It was about who sets the rules for English- those who grew up speaking the language or those who learnt it later?

Reader Alan G wrote:  ‘’the challenge for native speakers is to keep up with the pace of change, not to promote the increasingly futile attempts to fossilize the language.’’ Pieter countered: I do not agree. Having a standard means that you can help people to better understand each other ultimately. It’s you English/Americans that set this standard. If you don’t then things literally get lost in translation (by us non-native speakers)’’

Pieter is from the Netherlands. Aland G did not tell us where he was from, but if he is a native English speaker, he and Pieter would fit an odd pattern: people learning English want to speak like Americans or Brits and some Americans and Brits are telling them not to bother.

Why not? Because, the argument goes, the language no longer belongs just to the US, UK and other traditionally English-speaking countries, but to the entire world- and no one has the right to tell anyone else how to speak it.  

You may not have come across this view, but in university English language and linguistics departments it has become an orthodoxy. Rather than English as it is spoken in the US, UK or Australia, these academics champion global Englishes, or English as a lingua franca.

As Nikola Galloway of Edinburgh university has written, native English speakers are ‘‘still placed firmly on a pedestal, and it is clearly time for them to stand aside and let the experienced and successful elf user shine.’’   

At first glance, this seems crazy. As a learner of French, I aspire to speak as the French do and expect to be firmly corrected if I don’t. ‘‘La Gare,’’ a Strasbourg taxi driver once barked back at me, ensuring that I never forgot the gender of the word for ‘‘station.’’ I don’t think I would have got far, in any sense, if I had told him that French was no longer his exclusive possession.

But the ELF argument is worth considering because English is different. If you learn French, Russian or Chinese, it will usually be to talk to people who grew up speaking those languages. Some people learning English may end up living in English-speaking countries, but many will use it to communicate with others who have also learnt it as a second language.  

In business, the majority of discussions in English take place between non-native speakers. Wouldn’t it make more sense for an Indonesian to practice speaking English to a German or Korean than to a Canadian or New Zealander-particularly as non-native speakers often say they find it easier to speak English when there are no native speakers around?

Two articles addressing this issue appear in the latest issue of the journal of English as lingua franca. Yongyan Zheng of china’s Fudan University found that, whatever the academics say, learners, just like Pieter, want to speak like natives.  

One Chinese student told Prof Zheng: ‘‘ If I suspect a certain expression is translated from Chinese, I would not like to use it. But if I’ve seen or heard native speakers using it, then I won’t hesitate to use it.’’

But the students struggled to live up to these standards, which, Prof Zheng suggests, must have been demotivating.

 In the other article, Ms. Galloway and Heath Rose of Trinity College Dublin looked at what happened when students on a bilingual business degree program at a Japanese university hand English language assistants who included not just native speakers from the UK and Singapore, but also non-native speakers from Denmark and France.

The students didn’t seem to mind, and 91 per cent, when asked, agreed or strongly agreed that ‘‘my English education has prepared me to use English as lingua franca with people from around the world.’’  That strikes me as a leading question, and the groups involved in these studies are too small to draw proper conclusions, but I suspect the ELF supporters will win in the end.

In meetings and negotiations, people use the English they have. In many cases, it differs from what you hear in the US and the UK. The speakers may think they should be doing better, but most simply get on with it, developing new forms of English in the process.

Michael Skapinker

Financial Times October 17 2013.   

Air pollution a leading cause of cancer - U.N. agency

A gas-fired power station is seen during a frosty night in Minsk, December 4, 2012.

Credit: Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko

A gas-fired power station is seen during a frosty night in Minsk, December 4, 2012.

Credit: Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko

By Kate Kelland and Stephanie Nebehay

LONDON/GENEVA | Thu Oct 17, 2013 11:40am EDT
       

LONDON/GENEVA (Reuters) - The air we breathe is laced with cancer-causing substances and is being officially classified as carcinogenic to humans, the World Health Organization's cancer agency said on Thursday.
 The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) cited data indicating that in 2010, 223,000 deaths from lung cancer worldwide resulted from air pollution, and said there was also convincing evidence it increases the risk of bladder cancer.
Depending on the level of exposure in different parts of the world, the risk was found to be similar to that of breathing in second-hand tobacco smoke, Kurt Straif, head of the agency's section that ranks carcinogens, told reporters in Geneva.
"Our task was to evaluate the air everyone breathes rather than focus on specific air pollutants," deputy head Dana Loomis said in a statement. "The results from the reviewed studies point in the same direction: the risk of developing lung cancer is significantly increased in people exposed to air pollution."
Air pollution, mostly caused by transport, power generation, industrial or agricultural emissions and residential heating and cooking, is already known to raise risks for a wide range of illnesses including respiratory and heart diseases.
Research suggests that exposure levels have risen significantly in some parts of the world, particularly countries with large populations going through rapid industrialization, such as China.
IARC reviewed thousands of studies on air pollution tracking populations over decades and other research such as those in which mice exposed to polluted air experienced increased numbers of lung tumors.
In a statement released after reviewing the literature, the Lyon-based agency said both air pollution and "particulate matter" - a major component of it - would now be classified among its Group 1 human carcinogens.
That ranks them alongside more than 100 other known cancer-causing substances in IARC's Group 1, including asbestos, plutonium, silica dust, ultraviolet radiation and tobacco smoke.
CARCINOGEN ENCYCLOPAEDIA
Air pollution is highly variable over space and time.
Loomis said there was relatively high exposure in Asia, South Asia, eastern North America, some places in Central America and Mexico, as well as North Africa.
But although both the composition and levels of air pollution can vary dramatically from one location to the next, IARC said its conclusions applied to all regions of the world.
"Our conclusion is that this is a leading environmental cause of cancer deaths," Dr. Christopher Wild, director of IARC, told the news briefing in Geneva.
IARC's ranking monographs program, sometimes known as the "encyclopedia of carcinogens", aims to be an authoritative source of scientific evidence on cancer-causing substances.
It has already classified many chemicals and mixtures that can be components of air pollution, including diesel engine exhaust, solvents, metals and dusts. But this is the first time that experts have classified air pollution as a cause of cancer.
Wild said he hoped the comprehensive evidence would help the WHO, which is revising its global 2005 guidelines on air quality. The U.N. agency makes on recommendations on public health issues to its 193 member states.
Asked why it had taken so long to reach the conclusion, he said that one problem was the time lag between exposure to polluted air and the onset of cancer.
"Often we're looking at two, three or four decades once an exposure is introduced before there is sufficient impact on the burden of cancer in the population to be able to study this type of question," he said.
(Editing by Alison Williams)

Connecticut College News

Student-faculty research shows Oreos are just as addictive as drugs in lab rats

10/15/2013

Neuroscience Professor Joseph Schroeder and Lauren Cameron ’14 found that eating Oreos activated more neurons in the brain’s “pleasure center” than exposure to drugs of abuse.

Connecticut College students and a professor of neuroscience have found “America’s favorite cookie” is just as addictive as cocaine – at least for lab rats. And just like most humans, rats go for the middle first.
In a study designed to shed light on the potential addictiveness of high-fat/ high-sugar foods, Professor Joseph Schroeder and his students found rats formed an equally strong association between the pleasurable effects of eating Oreos and a specific environment as they did between cocaine or morphine and a specific environment. They also found that eating cookies activated more neurons in the brain’s “pleasure center” than exposure to drugs of abuse.
“Our research supports the theory that high-fat/ high-sugar foods stimulate the brain in the same way that drugs do,” Schroeder said. “It may explain why some people can’t resist these foods despite the fact that they know they are bad for them.”
The research was the brainchild of neuroscience major Jamie Honohan ’13. A scholar in the College’s Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy, Honohan was interested in how the prevalence of high-fat and high-sugar foods in low-income neighborhoods contributed to the obesity epidemic.
“My research interests stemmed from a curiosity for studying human behavior and our motivations when it comes to food,” said Honohan. “We chose Oreos not only because they are America’s favorite cookie, and highly palatable to rats, but also because products containing high amounts of fat and sugar are heavily marketed in communities with lower socioeconomic statuses.”
To test the addictiveness of Oreos, Honohan and a co-researcher, Becca Markson ’13, worked with Schroeder and two other students, Science Leader Gabriela Lopez ’15 and Katrina Bantis ’15, last year to measure the association between “drug” and environment.
On one side of a maze, they would give hungry rats Oreos and on the other, they would give them a control – in this case, rice cakes. (“Just like humans, rats don’t seem to get much pleasure out of eating them,” Schroeder said.) Then, they would give the rats the option of spending time on either side of the maze and measure how long they would spend on the side where they were typically fed Oreos.
While it may not be scientifically relevant, Honohan said it was surprising to watch the rats eat the famous cookie. “They would
break it open and eat the middle first,” she said.
They compared the results of the Oreo and rice cake test with results from rats that were given an injection of cocaine or morphine, known addictive substances, on one side of the maze and a shot of saline on the other. Professor Schroeder is licensed by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to purchase and use controlled substances for research.
The research showed the rats conditioned with Oreos spent as much time on the “drug” side of the maze as the rats conditioned with cocaine or morphine.
Neuroscience major and Science Leader Lauren Cameron ’14 was awarded a Keck Grant, which provides summer research stipends in the sciences to qualified students, to work with Schroeder to continue the research over the summer. They used immunohistochemistry to measure the expression of a protein called c-Fos, a marker of neuronal activation, in the nucleus accumbens, or the brain’s “pleasure center.”
“It basically tells us how many cells were turned on in a specific region of the brain in response to the drugs or Oreos,” said Schroeder.
They found that the Oreos activated significantly more neurons than cocaine or morphine.
“This correlated well with our behavioral results and lends support to the hypothesis that high-fat/ high-sugar foods are addictive,” said Schroeder.
And that is a problem for the general public, says Honohan.
“Even though we associate significant health hazards in taking drugs like cocaine and morphine, high-fat/ high-sugar foods may present even more of a danger because of their accessibility and affordability,” she said.
Schroeder will present the research next month at the Society for Neuroscience conference in San Diego, Calif.

For media inquiries, please contact:
Amy Martin, 860-439-2526, a.martin@conncoll.edu or Deborah MacDonnell (860) 439-2504, dmacdonn@conncoll.edu

Washington DC, December 2011

D-instant

To my Precious

 A few glimmers of light, our time has come

The sky is going down, hearts are beating fiercely

Praying for magnificence, chasing misery away

We are now wandering and begging for attention

Begging for Mercy

This is the moment

Tears, laugh, joy and fears

Inexplicable glowing chaos

Grabbing memory and every part of my body

We are all yours… Let us whisper

Let us be...

Contributing writer

Muinate Said Ali

 

 

Leadership and success

 Leadership and success

Investor’s Business Daily based in New York state has spent years analyzing leaders and successful people in all walks of life. Most have 10 traits that, when combined, can turn dreams into reality.

1.     HOW YOU THINK IS EVERYTHING:

Always be positive. Think success, not failure. Beware of a negative environment.

2.     DECIDE UPON YOURTRUE DREAMS AND GOALS:

Write down your specific goals and develop a plan to reach them.

3.     TAKE ACTION:

Goals are nothing without action. Don’t be afraid to get started. Just do it.

4.     NEVER STOP LEARNING:

Go back to school or read books. Get training and acquire skills.

5.     BE PERSISTENT AND WORK HARD:

Success is a marathon, not a sprint. Never give up.

6.     LEARN TO ANALYSE DETAILS:

Get all the facts, all the input. Learn from your mistakes.

7.     FOCUS YOUR TIME AND MONEY:

Don’t let other people or things distract you.

8.     DON’T BE AFRAID TO INNOVATE; BE DIFFERENT:

 Following the herd is a sure way to mediocrity.

9.     DEAL AND COMMUNICATE WITH PEOPLE EFFECTIVELY:

No person is an island. Learn to understand and motivate others.

10.  BE HONEST AND DEPENDABLE; TAKE RESPONSABILTY:

Otherwise, Nos. 1-9 won’t matter.

 

Investor's Business Daily

October 10, 2013.

Come and visit Comoros Islands

                                                  Welcome to Comoros



Fast food

A traditional restaurant in Fayetteville, Arkansas, 2011.

 

Are fast food restaurants healthy?

Fast food is obviously one of the best inventions of the 20^th century in the restaurant industry. It offers a number of benefits to people in this age of fast-paced living. It has become successful in terms of financial growth, brand-name recognition and worldwide expansion.  According to the National Restaurant Association, fast food restaurants in the U.S reached $ 142 billion in sales in 2006.
With the ever-growing population in many urban areas, fast food has become an alternative for urban citizens who do not have time to do shopping and cooking. For example, a commuter does not have time to cook because he or she is making long distances journeys every day to go to work. Thus, fast food is the best solution for this category of workers. What’s more, many people who do not know how to cook have found fast food as the solution to their problems. To illustrate, many students buy fast food because they are not good cooks. However, saving time is not the only advantage of fast food.
Fast food is cheaper than food served in traditional restaurants. For example, with seven dollars, one can have lunch or dinner including the dessert. That sum is not sufficient for a dinner in a traditional restaurant. In the cafeteria at the Arkansas union, students can eat everything they like for only eight dollars.
Fast food is also delicious. Common menu items include not only sandwiches, hamburgers, and French fries but also mashed potatoes, fresh salads and fruits. Many children like fast food. Therefore, it has become popular everywhere. Parents, grand-parents, and the whole family can enjoy a meal served in a fast food restaurant.  Even though, some people may say that fast food restaurants are noisy and dirty, and fast food causes obesity, I do not think so. Of course, it is normal for a popular fast food restaurant to be a little bit noisy. Fast food restaurants are not dirty because they are often cleaned. For those who say that fast food can cause obesity, it is not true. It is overeating that can cause obesity, not fast food.
All in all, fast food consumption is growing every day because it is popular, delicious and cheap. As a result of a phenomenally worldwide successful business, many fast food restaurants are today run by multinational corporations.   

Contributing writer

Chami Mouzawar

A sweet home in Albany, New York

Departure

Hope comes in the house

Bringing a beautiful flavor

That spreads on my face

A promised land is found

Far from my sweet home

I have been dreaming that moment

Since my youth

I am going to leave

For a long time

But couldn’t tell the truth

To my half

I was happy and anxious to leave

With a happy event to come

Rumors spread the city

As fast as a forest fire

But don’t care the gossips

They come and go

 

Brought by the wind

Of the desert storm

Despite the oceans

My love has never been strong

 

 

Mouzawar Chami

Contributing writer

Reporting from the National Day on Writing

A poem of Comoros

Comoros are also known for the international marathon held every April

Comoros are known
For its value of social security in the world

For its value of hospitality in the world

Wodjissa, Wodjissa, Wodjissa

For its value of solidarity in the world

For its value of generosity in the world

Wodjissa, Wodjissa, Wodjissa

For its value of kindness in the world

For its value of tolerance in the world

Wodjissa, Wodjissa, Wodjissa

You're beautiful like the sun

You're beautiful like the stars

Wodjissa, Wodjissa, Wodjissa

You're beautiful like the moon

You're beautiful like the sunset

Wodjissa, Wodjissa, Wodjissa

You're beautiful like the sunrise

You're beautiful like a flower

Wodjissa, Wodjissa, Wodjissa

Unknown you are

Soon you we'll be discovered

Comorian people will eat your paradise fruits

Wodjissa, Wodjissa, Wodjissa

 

Contributing writer

Azali Said Ahmed 

Tourist Agent development