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Originally Posted by Lamusa  Poverty exists around the world, not just in Africa, so, what's your reason behind focusing on African countries, alone, scientifically speaking? Long before the Trans-atlantic slave trade many African societies flourished. Many people forget that Egypt is actually a part of Africa. It seems to me that many people find it difficult, for reasons they believe to be scientific and inherent in people of African descent (and those primarily with darker skin,) could not have possibly made any worthwhile contributions to society. Why is that? Africa is a large complex place full of many different kinds of people. some who adhere to traditional ways and some who, because of colonialism, try to assimilate their western indoctrination. Some come here to America or the UK for access to more opportunities. It is easy to question the surface of something, but why avoid the roots? Everything has roots. Rome fell. But why did it fall? England was once the greatest empire in the world...How did it get that way and and why did it eventually retreat behind America's shadow? Many of these answers you can read in any American textbook. As for the African continent, however, or for that matter individual countries in Africa, the conversation gets a little muddled because the history as it is taught particularly in western societies is convoluted.
So many studies have been conducted on the brains of people of African descent to determine intelligence. Racist thinking suggests people of African descent are lazy and need people's charity and handouts. Race is a social construct. Many people have black blood who don't appear to and vice versa. It is our beliefs about each other that need to change because we are all one. What we do to one part of the web affects the whole part. If all we focus on about the African continent is poverty what does that say about our consciousness? If we focused on the vibrant, beautiful, strong, creative, resilient and intelligent people-with gumption-who live there that might say another thing about our consciousness, altogether. |
I know that poverty exists all arround the world. I used Africa because it is the one most often in the spot light. All charitible advertisement is based on Africa, all celebritites who go to help people in the poorest countries alway go to Africa. Both Live Aid concerts were based on Africa. Simply put, the west seems to be infatuated with trying to get people to help Africa (guit maybe?)
Nothing seems to have changed in Africa's poorest nations over the last 40+ years and it does look like it's going to change in the next 40 year, Why?
Is it bad leadership? Is it religious beliefs? Is it the mindset of the nations?
Debt? etcetera?
Look what China has achieved over the last 40 years. It will go on to become the most powerful nation in the world. Why?