1. The nasty rice you eat at a Nigerian party or meeting, that often lacks taste and may be extremely spicy to cover up the blandness. There is a 1/10 chance that the rice you eat actually tastes good.
2. The food your Nigerian mother brings home to avoid going grocery shopping
1. Taiwo: "Hey Uche, why are you eating cereal? We are about to go to that pointless Nigerian party."
Uche: "Pfft, there's going to be Nigerian Party rice there, I don't eat that crap!"
2. Kelechi: "Mom we need to go grocery shopping, we have no food."
Mom: "Didn't you see that I brought back some Nigerian Party rice last night? Cmon go sit down"!
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.
FRIEND A: "Did you just take a stealthie of me?"
FRIEND B (turning phone around): "no I was just using snapchat's new filter, see?"
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”