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It all depends upon where you go. Some areas are more urbanized than others.
Of course. But it's a pity that the urbanized areas are never shown on tv. Most non-Africans think African is just a "big jungle"... Many schools cover the advanced kingdoms of Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas, but focus only on the most primitive people in Africa; ignoring Africa’s advanced civilizations, which better represent the continent.
Why it is always Africa’s most primitive people—the Bushman, Pygmies, and Maasai— who make up less than .001% of Africa’s population, that we see the most on TV, in movies, in magazines, etc? There are more white Africans than there are "primitive people" in Africa, so it's fair to say that the whites will better represent the African continent
Last edited by Ambassadeur; 07-12-2008 at 12:35 PM..
I think Africa does a pretty good job of portraying its self in a negative light. Read the news about Sudan lately? Kenya? Sierra Leone? South Africa is for all intents and purposes is a European country. There is also Five-star hotels in Ethiopia, but that doesn't make it a nice country deserving of a positive light.
Of course. But it's a pity that the urbanized areas are never shown on tv. Most non-Africans think African is just a "big jungle"... Many schools cover the advanced kingdoms of Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas, but focus only on the most primitive people in Africa; ignoring Africa’s advanced civilizations, which better represent the continent.
Why it is always Africa’s most primitive people—the Bushman, Pygmies, and Maasai— who make up less than .001% of Africa’s population, that we see the most on TV, in movies, in magazines, etc? There are more white Africans than there are "primitive people" in Africa, so it's fair to say that the whites will better represent the African continent
It won't be that way for long, Africa (not including "middle east") is becoming more and more unlivable for whites, just look at Zimbabwe and S.Africa.
These are isolated incidences of crime. It not comparable to the Darfur tragedy, or the fact that in some African nations the HIV/AIDs rate is up to 25%. Now, can you with a straight face tell me that Sudan, Swaziland, or Tanzania and the US are comparable in that sense?
Usually within a post or two someone comes up with AIDS who the hell brought AIDS to Africa in the first place?
Originally Posted by doc1
I would be interesting to see what would happen if the rest of the world totally walked away from Africa.
What would Aficans do with it if they had it all to themselves?
Doesn't slavery still exit there?
Slavery? Where exactly in Africa? Could you be specific and tell us precisely which country in Africa practice slavery in the "Western sense". Africans are the one who wrote Le code noir(The black code). Europeans wrote it http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/335/
People have a tendency to confuse serfdom, the condition of servitidue which existed in all cultures, with slavery.
It would be interesting to see European countries trying to survive without African natural ressources and minerals. Could you imagine France without African oil? What about Belgian without the Democratic Republic of Congo?
Europe has almost all of the industries, but almost no natural ressources with the exception of Norway, the Ukraine and Russia. African every single natural ressources and minerals known to man and to God, but almost no industries...and to have industries, you need natural ressources and minerals that's why colonialism was started in the first place. So don't kid yourself and think that European countries and corporations are anxious to walk away from Africa anytime soon.
Last edited by Ambassadeur; 07-14-2008 at 03:39 PM..
everywhere there are bad places this is just strictly ignorance in our supposed thriving country we have muders rapist suicides tortuerors and the list can go on and on even desolate houses and diseased ridden people everywhere for some reason the media just likes to portray africa as the only one,,,because in reality we are all truely bad countries. The media is just targeted for Africa and knows hoe to spend good ol usa in a good light
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