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Re: Why has Africa never developed??? [Re: Gilgamesh18]
#21028145 - 12/26/14 01:39 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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Well da blacks votid fo obama... now look at its.
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Re: Why has Africa never developed??? [Re: Patlal] 3
#21028409 - 12/26/14 02:53 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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No, the entire continent is not a cesspool. Having many friends and the majority of my family live there and after being told and shown what a lot of places are like in real time, I'm actually pretty offended by most Americans' skewed perception of Africa.
Edit: I'm not denying the very clear existence of struggle, I'm just extremely annoyed at the fact that so many people do not know how to view Africa as anything but a single entity.
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kr0nik0 said: My theory is that the countries that do have resources in Africa have been exploited and colonized by European governments and individual businessmen for the last few hundred years.
There's a lot more to it than that as every country in Africa faces different problems and has different resources, economic situations, etc.
This is spot on.
Edited by Hellogoodbyedeath (12/26/14 03:05 PM)
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My best friend lived in south africa as a child. He was rich there and said there was a large racial divide in south africa and it corellated with how much money you had.
He has given me first hand insight, as he eloquently puts it, that if you're not white in south africa, you're generally going to be living in poverty.
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Re: Why has Africa never developed??? [Re: Webster10]
#21028476 - 12/26/14 03:13 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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I've always been extremely saddened and amazed at the fucked up situation in that country.
"Yup, we're just going to invade your homeland, establish these very racist and very bullshit statutes, and declare you, the majority population, second-class members of your own damn home."
Surely, there's more to it than that, but you get the message.
Edit: Ha, I'm laughing at how similar that is to what happened on a larger scale with the European countries that liked to conquer places vs. essentially everyone else. There are far more brown-skinned people on the planet than white people, yet the latter population was able to make it so that the former is seen / treated as lesser, even in their own home countries.
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Gilgamesh18
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Actually there are impoverished whites in south africa that recieve no help from the majority black government.
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And yet it scores very near the top of various measures compared to the rest of Africa, right? Sorry my knowledge of South Africa is threadbare at best.
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Re: Why has Africa never developed??? [Re: SoupSandwich]
#21028511 - 12/26/14 03:22 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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I wouldn't know the answer to that. Google is your friend.
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Oh, sorry I though you said you'd lived there. My mistake.
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Re: Why has Africa never developed??? [Re: SoupSandwich]
#21028570 - 12/26/14 03:40 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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It's alright.
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has anyone ever watched a documentary of people going to africa to do whatever? journalism companies like VICE, and what have you. i'd say MPD hit the nail on the head, i can't say inferiority, but i don't think it's too much of a stretch to say that corruption is often rampant and no one really cares.
there's beaches littered with a human excrement, and communities that are culturally in the dark ages believing that homosexuality is a crime and this and that "AND DEY EAT DA POOPOO, FROM DE ANUS"
like really, i know running toilet water is scarce in africa but if you can't see that poppin' a squat right on the beach 50 feet from your house ain't a good thang to be doing - i got no hope for ya
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Re: Why has Africa never developed??? [Re: 404] 1
#21028795 - 12/26/14 04:35 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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It's simple. Sub-Saharan Africa was last in the culture race and thus got exploited. Other cultures had developed writing, complex government, money, cities, weapons, etc. But mostly writing and weapons. They hadn't. So they got exploited. If they had developed that stuff before the other cultures, it would be Chinese or the Europeans who never developed, because whoever developed last would be the ones who got exploited.
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Cojo said: I've always been extremely saddened and amazed at the fucked up situation in that country.
"Yup, we're just going to invade your homeland, establish these very racist and very bullshit statutes, and declare you, the majority population, second-class members of your own damn home."
sounds familiar
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Re: Why has Africa never developed??? [Re: Prisoner#1]
#21028819 - 12/26/14 04:44 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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i'm not really surprised, europeans didn't really invent slavery, nor did they introduce it to africa. the tribes there had been doing that for a while.
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Re: Why has Africa never developed??? [Re: Patlal]
#21028831 - 12/26/14 04:47 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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You know, Africa is actually pretty developed right now. Has been for a while. They have big cities and suburbs and everything.
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Re: Why has Africa never developed??? [Re: kr0nik0]
#21028835 - 12/26/14 04:48 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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kr0nik0 said: My theory is that the countries that do have resources in Africa have been exploited and colonized by European governments and individual businessmen for the last few hundred years.
There's a lot more to it than that as every country in Africa faces different problems and has different resources, economic situations, etc.
African countries and their indigenous people did better under European colonization than before it came and than after it left. See Zimbabwe and Rhodesia.
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Re: Why has Africa never developed??? [Re: jboredone]
#21028837 - 12/26/14 04:48 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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jboredone said: because they felt bad using their own people as slaves....
Africans invented slavery
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Re: Why has Africa never developed??? [Re: 404]
#21028846 - 12/26/14 04:51 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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No one "invented" slavery. Slavery goes back thousands of years. Egypt had slaves. Rome had slaves.
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Re: Why has Africa never developed??? [Re: nooneman] 2
#21028856 - 12/26/14 04:54 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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There was slavery in Africa before there were humans on any other continent.
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Re: Why has Africa never developed??? [Re: nooneman]
#21028877 - 12/26/14 04:59 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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nooneman said: No one "invented" slavery. Slavery goes back thousands of years. Egypt had slaves. Rome had slaves.
exactly what i just said, just more elaborated.
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Re: Why has Africa never developed??? [Re: 404]
#21028898 - 12/26/14 05:04 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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404 said:
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nooneman said: No one "invented" slavery. Slavery goes back thousands of years. Egypt had slaves. Rome had slaves.
exactly what i just said, just more elaborated.
In the grand scheme of things I believe it's unfair to say that slavery was invented by any certain culture or empire.
I think slavery is something that came along with the dawn of modern humans. Doesn't matter where on Earth they were located (although most likely it was where Africa is located nowadays).
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