re: Why Is Africa Continent Still Full Of “Developing Countries “?

yeah i referenced that in my big post

you can go look at Bama's post and see that it's pretty correct, but misses the big picture

it's a really effective point if you just want to hate the west/Europe, though

anyone who thinks that leaving Sub Saharan Africa as a stone age continent would have SSA in a better place today is lying

anyone who thinks that communism taking hold across SSA would have SSA in a better place today is lying

that doesn't excuse colonialism, especially in extreme examples like the Cogo

that doesn't excuse the West creating anti-USSR dictators

but this is where the left's favorite (and oft-forgotten) concept of nuance comes in. the world isn't always black/white. the West did shitty things in SSA. there is no argument. however, given the alternative, it wasn't the worst course of action by any stretch of the imagination

the counter-argument would require the biggest noble savage mythology in human history, where either we (1) never fool with SSA and we just allow almost an entire continent to live 1000 years behind the rest of the world or (2) believe that somehow in their innate goodness, they'd catch up 1000 years of culture and technology on their own (the Wakanda theory)

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yeah well try to get support for telling people they need to ditch a shitty culture for a western/traditional one and see where that gets you

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I imagine it would upset a handful of overweight baristas with blue hair

Although i think it's all in how an argument is framed and delivered E.g. neo-nazism and skinhead culture are clearly shitty cultures worth ditching in favor of western ideals. It's a short step from there to ditching cultures that breed corruption and exploitation.. personally I think western ides are the natural result of education and higher level thinking

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What stalls The continents progress?

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I didn’t know they had reached developing status yet

Lack of Walls!

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Perhaps an armed public could protect property and reform government.

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Against the super powers that will continue to exploit them for profit? You're kidding, right?

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Developing Countries “

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This term is actually new. Back in the 60s when we were debating 3rd world issues all of the literature used the term LDCs. Less Developed Countries.

It was deemed too stigmatizing sometime in the 80s so they switched to 'developing'.

developing countries is PC for shithole

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However, it wasn't the best, either. Africa was viewed as an exploitable pawn

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so was America, India, and countless other areas of the world well ahead of Africa

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You drive through SSA today and you see a nice modern road, it's accompanied by a sign indicating which of the US/EU/China helped fund it. Dig deeper, and that funding was provided in exchange for some concession from the government around the country's resources.

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well no shite. China will, from a modern-historical context, make the West look generous (outside of extremities like the Congo). hell your example is a perfect one. Western colonists tried to create infrastructure for the whole area. China will only invest where they are working and will leave the rest shitty. China has no interest in investment or development like colonialists did. There will be no Rhodesia or South Africa left once China leaves.

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so was America, India, and countless other areas of the world well ahead of Africa

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America being viewed that way certainly worked to the detriment of the indigenous peoples - but Africa didn't have the mass deaths of a smallpox epidemic to clear the land in the same way.