RostrumNews One disturbing societal anomaly that has continued to thrive in Nigeria and several other African countries is the tendency to measure the worth, class, and acceptability of a person's lifestyle by their financial status. Interestingly, when a wealthy individual embraces a particular diet, fashion style, or way of life, society quickly describes it as classy, sophisticated, fashionable, or luxurious. However, when someone from a less-privileged background adopts exactly the same lifestyle, it is often dismissed as ordinary, inferior, outdated, or even ridiculous. This contradiction exposes the deep-rooted hypocrisy in our social value system, where the same things are given different interpretations simply because of the economic circumstances of those associated with them. Unfortunately, this mentality has gradually eaten deep into the social fabric of our society, misleading people into believing that sophistication is a product of wealth rather than persona...