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re: What's happening in Africa?
Posted on 3/12/17 at 10:22 am to redstick13
Posted on 3/12/17 at 10:22 am to redstick13
You'll find in almost every culture in which the elite horde all the wealth for themselves that the people are all for themselves. Because if they aren't, if they don't lie, cheat, and steal, they could easily just die.
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Posted on 3/12/17 at 10:44 am to redstick13
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I live in sub Sahara Africa. I think I know what I see on a daily basis.
I've lived in Namibia and you're generalizing.
Posted on 3/12/17 at 10:56 am to vengeanceofrain
quote:Ferguson, MO.
Black people are idiots? If you put them in America with America resources do you honestly believe they would be burning down buildings
Posted on 3/12/17 at 12:13 pm to redstick13
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Lot of this and Africans generally only care what they can get for themselves.
How can you say that and live in a capitalistic society?
Capitalism is the epitome of "me me me me me me me"
Damnit the framers ran from England because one could say(and I disagree, persecution sucks arse) that they were self entitled narcisstic people that wanted nothing more but To do what they wanted when they wanted to however they wanted
Posted on 3/12/17 at 12:15 pm to 13SaintTiger
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wot? way to victim blame. even if it were true (it's not because Africans care deeply about family), that would be a by-product of the shitty leadership, poverty, and violence.
Most foreign cultures care way more about the family unit than western cultures. Here you have brother sisters moms and dads that will pick $$$ >>> family.
Posted on 3/12/17 at 12:15 pm to cwil177
And this board has a bias towards whom? 
Posted on 3/12/17 at 12:18 pm to HempHead
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What's happening in Africa? by HempHead
I think he might actually be right about that one - African national immigrants tend to have extremely high education and income levels - but that is not necessarily indicative of their being accurate representatives of their homelands, but rather the rigor we place on incoming immigrants from Africa (except Somalis we move to the land of winter).
You're taking too much Credit -- these folks are usually butt ducking rich in their homelands (that's why they can afford to come here) or extreme exceptional/1%ers in terms of their skills/expertise. They can do things most other people in the world can't do. That's why you never see the refugee populations soar as much because they weren't hand picked by our immigration policies. This goes for Asian immigrants too.
Plus, it's not the rigors we place on them, they have no choice. It's either succeed or go back to hardships
Posted on 3/12/17 at 12:19 pm to athenslife101
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You'll find in almost every culture in which the elite horde all the wealth for themselves that the people are all for themselves. Because if they aren't, if they don't lie, cheat, and steal, they could easily just die.
Our president
Posted on 3/12/17 at 12:31 pm to StrongSafety
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Our president
Thanks Obama
Posted on 3/12/17 at 12:45 pm to redstick13
Are you still in Douala?
Posted on 3/12/17 at 1:49 pm to PoundFoolish
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condolences
It's a shame he'll never get to experience the culture of Kilgore like you do.
Posted on 3/12/17 at 1:59 pm to StrongSafety
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Capitalism is the epitome of "me me me me me me me"
You're conflating a form of government with culture and society. They're not the same.
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Damnit the framers ran from England because one could say(and I disagree, persecution sucks arse) that they were self entitled narcisstic people that wanted nothing more but To do what they wanted when they wanted to however they wanted
They wanted to have the ability to control their own lives.
This post was edited on 3/12/17 at 1:59 pm
Posted on 3/12/17 at 2:04 pm to LG2BAMA
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My local rotary club is always asking for money to send over there to build water wells.
I hope Matt Damon and Stella Artois are able to build wells all over the continent to keep all those women from walking barefooted 800 miles a day to get water. (Notice how he only talks about women getting water? Do the men not know how to get water?)
Posted on 3/12/17 at 3:03 pm to 13SaintTiger
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I've lived in Namibia and you're generalizing.
You missed a post I made about Namibia. I've spent almost 15 years in Africa. Namibia is an exception, not the rule. Please continue to school me on your incredible knowledge of Africa tho.
Posted on 3/12/17 at 3:05 pm to StrongSafety
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How can you say that and live in a capitalistic society?
I live in Africa. When's the last time you ever visited here?
Posted on 3/12/17 at 3:07 pm to Dandy Lion
Yea still here. Still the same issues. Elections next year. My coefficient should go up. Lots of problems recently between Anglophone and Francophone. Paul Biya cut off all internet for the entire Anglophone region to shut them up.
This post was edited on 3/12/17 at 3:10 pm
Posted on 3/12/17 at 3:11 pm to Dignan
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It's a shame he'll never get to experience the culture of Kilgore like you do.
Or the shantytown Austin's homeless have made their "sanctuary"
Posted on 3/12/17 at 3:15 pm to redstick13
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Yea still here. Still the same issues. Elections next year. My coefficient should go up. Lots of problems recently between Anglophone and Francophone. Paul Biya cut off all internet for the entire Anglophone region to shut them up.
Yeesh . . . I would've thought Cameroon was among the "better" equatorial African countries.
Posted on 3/12/17 at 3:16 pm to PoundFoolish
It is
Posted on 3/12/17 at 3:20 pm to redstick13
I would imagine there's at least some decent coffee, no?
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