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re: Why hasn’t most of Africa developed more than it has?
Posted on 7/30/19 at 10:03 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
Posted on 7/30/19 at 10:03 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
quote:Their life sucks compared to yours. It's better than it would have been without colonization. It's not really debatable.
Just because you have a cell phone doesn't mean your life is better if the entirety of said life has been in the middle of civil war and political unrest.
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Posted on 7/30/19 at 10:04 pm to DavidTheGnome
China would disagree
Posted on 7/30/19 at 10:04 pm to DavidTheGnome
Kangs was and Kangs is.
Posted on 7/30/19 at 10:06 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
quote:
Just because you have a cell phone doesn't mean your life is better if the entirety of said life has been in the middle of civil war and political unrest.
Thank god neither have happened in America.
Posted on 7/30/19 at 10:07 pm to DavidTheGnome
They just want their own emergency room
Posted on 7/30/19 at 10:07 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
quote:
It's not really debatable.
It's certainly very debatable
Posted on 7/30/19 at 10:08 pm to DavidTheGnome
Because the west completely fricked Africa in the 20th century. Now it's mostly poor war torn countries that experience a coup every 5 years
Posted on 7/30/19 at 10:09 pm to DavidTheGnome
Sam kennison tagged it best
Posted on 7/30/19 at 10:10 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
quote:If you don't know what the frick you're talking about then sure, it's debatable.
It's certainly very debatable
The simple fact is that there was constant political unrest and war before colonization. It was just as if not more brutal than it is today. Now there is political unrest and war but people have access to schools and hospitals and communication with the entire planet. So yeah, it's better.
Posted on 7/30/19 at 10:12 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
Africa would be better off fully colonized.
Posted on 7/30/19 at 10:13 pm to dawgfan24348
quote:
Because the west completely fricked Africa in the 20th century
Posted on 7/30/19 at 10:14 pm to RogerTheShrubber
It's fricking ridiculous that this is anchored.
Posted on 7/30/19 at 10:14 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
Angola & Luanda had the greatest potential to get into modern times about 10 or so years ago with the oil boom there. President and daughter took the money and ran.
Posted on 7/30/19 at 10:15 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
quote:
Their life sucks compared to yours. It's better than it would have been without colonization. It's not really debatable.
Seems the main problem and why they're stuck is unstable govt and corruption. All Aid and resources seem to be funneled to the elite.
Posted on 7/30/19 at 10:19 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
quote:
The simple fact is that there was constant political unrest and war before colonization. It was just as if not more brutal than it is today. Now there is political unrest and war but people have access to schools and hospitals and communication with the entire planet. So yeah, it's better.
Tribal squabbling is not the same as total civil war. There's no point in even engaging with you. You've decided white man tried to save the black man but the black man doesn't want saving.
Posted on 7/30/19 at 10:21 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
You're a special kind of dumb arse, aren't you? Unfortunately maybe not that special.
Posted on 7/30/19 at 10:22 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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Just because you have a cell phone doesn't mean your life is better if the entirety of said life has been in the middle of civil war and political unrest.
You’re exactly right. But because I can go to the grocery store and not have to wonder if there will be any food or milk, I can flip my lights on in my house and not wonder if they’ll come on or not. I can go to the doctor when I’m ill or injured and have too fricking notch care to get me back to health relatively quick. I can drive my car three or four miles to work and not have to walk, I can be out in public and not wonder if I’ll be shot for practicing the wrong religion or standing the wrong way or saying the wrong thing. I can be not among the richest of society and can still live incredibly comfortable.
We live...in this country and our brethren in Europe, unlike any other people have lived in the entire history of the world. My life is certainly better than what’s going on in Africa right now.
Posted on 7/30/19 at 10:22 pm to DavidTheGnome
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I found a really interesting article about the colonization of India by the Brits and how it set back their development significantly. It’s not Africa but same idea.
LINK
Drawing on nearly two centuries of detailed data on tax and trade, Patnaik calculated that Britain drained a total of nearly $45 trillion from India during the period 1765 to 1938.
It's a staggering sum. For perspective, $45 trillion is 17 times more than the total annual gross domestic product of the United Kingdom today
I don't believe one word of that. Those people were burying widows alive and speaking hundreds of different languages when the British arrived.
The Indians have been able to parlay the modicum of civilization and English language education that the British forced upon them into hard currency-generating careers in engineering and medicine all over the world. They'd be lost without that.
Posted on 7/30/19 at 10:23 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
quote:It's exactly the same
Tribal squabbling is not the same as total civil war.
quote:Link to where I even alluded to that?
You've decided white man tried to save the black man but the black man doesn't want saving.
quote:Listen sport... I know you think you know about Africa because you watched a Vice documentary and maybe read some long winded piece in Esquire or some other queer shite and that you think you're special because you managed to make it out of whatever shite town you're from and move to the super metropolitan city of Dallas. But you really don't know dick.
There's no point in even engaging with you.
Posted on 7/30/19 at 10:26 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
That Chinese construction is pretty bad too. They will be repairing and rebuilding in a couple of years.
This post was edited on 7/30/19 at 10:27 pm
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