nostr:npub1cuscsrz6efq99ptktk26x58v4yqy9y46ytp8xw4rjjwq0wlt6znst66789 nostr:npub14eng8plhflea40cu3lafnw6nwkxsp5te2v7hzy74lz6a9mjhpaks0wm4rw Africa had the same amount of time, if not more, than Europe, to prosper. And yet their primary accomplishments in history are making mud huts and chucking spears at each other.
nostr:npub14eng8plhflea40cu3lafnw6nwkxsp5te2v7hzy74lz6a9mjhpaks0wm4rw nostr:npub1l4eg4c2rcumcgk98x84zgjlwc9pjyycr08pw3yk9pc5gtkh6rhxseghev7 Circumstances and poverty are the real problem. Race is a distraction.
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nostr:npub1l4eg4c2rcumcgk98x84zgjlwc9pjyycr08pw3yk9pc5gtkh6rhxseghev7 nostr:npub14eng8plhflea40cu3lafnw6nwkxsp5te2v7hzy74lz6a9mjhpaks0wm4rw Africa did not have the same climate and natural resources.
If you examine why countries are the way they are, it's often about landscape and climate, and accidents.
Maybe also centuries of foreign imperialism too?
Tbf, Europe suffered that, a lot more than Africa.
Malaria can be a blessing as well as a curse, impeding the movement of armies as much as the flow of ideas.
nostr:npub1494rtg3ygq4cqawymgs0q3mcj6hucvu4kmadv03s5ey2sg32df5shtzmp0, what is that in this statement? Imperialism?
Yup
I’m sorry man, I’m really sure I don’t have any enthusiasm for this conversation. I don’t even know where to start. Experience dictates that in my case I find that I dislike 80% of the “observably black” people I meet. The culture doesn’t really meld well with mine. Does that make their culture wrong? No. It’s a personal choice based on my experiences literally working all over the world at times. I have also know some amazing Black people with some cultural traditions I have integrated into my own familial culture. Whatever line you draw is personal and dynamic.
Western Europe wasn't looking too flash in the 14th C., when Sub-Saharan Africa was a major exporter and innovator.
The exporting and innovating was mostly slavery and slave-gold-mining, but you go with what you know...