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Why is it that Africans are so backwards

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whyaname98 is not online. whyaname98
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19 May 2014 08:50 AM
This is why:

- Too hot to work properly.
- Africans are lazy.

#LogicMakesSense
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abalonemascarponi is not online. abalonemascarponi
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19 May 2014 08:51 AM
^ try harder
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Fraility is not online. Fraility
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19 May 2014 09:30 AM
It doesn't matter how you look at it:

Sub-Saharan Africa, in comparison with virtually every other place on Earth, has made far less cultural and technological achievements throughout its history (Even before the era of Colonialism).

I mean, they hadn't even been able to develop a written language by themselves. WRITTEN LANGUAGE. The foundation for advancement because it allows future generations to comprehend the discoveries of their ancestors.

From a historical standpoint, they're just inferior. There's really no way to avoid this fact.
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fdfxd is not online. fdfxd
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19 May 2014 09:31 AM
@Frail
Nigeria is sub saharan, so Igbo or Hausa aren't langauges?
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Fraility is not online. Fraility
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19 May 2014 09:36 AM
The furthest they were able to advance in terms of writing were a few extremely basic pictograms that barely qualified as a language, and more as basic symbols of understanding.

Ancient China had already been doing that during the third millenium BC.

Hausa only managed to become written when they were introduced to Arabic, meaning that written was only made possible by the Middle-Eastern world. Same goes for Igbo Braille, which was developed from braille that originated in the West.
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fdfxd is not online. fdfxd
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19 May 2014 09:38 AM
I still have 250 other langauges to show you.
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Fraility is not online. Fraility
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19 May 2014 09:41 AM
Copy and paste from Wikipedia all you want, but the truth remains that Sub-Saharan Africa's overall development is so objectively inferior to every other corner of the globe that it is impossible to deny.

If we want this to boil down to fact-vomiting, I can dump every single piece of European classical literature and we'll see how it compares to a primitive language of basic phonetics.
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fdfxd is not online. fdfxd
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19 May 2014 09:43 AM
Wikipedia? pft I wish, I AM part Nigerian.
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anotheytraitii is not online. anotheytraitii
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19 May 2014 10:47 AM
Capitalism.
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2013Yay is not online. 2013Yay
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19 May 2014 10:57 AM
"South Africa is just as developed as Egypt, I think....."

South Africa has more advanced policies, there were riots in Egypt and the government is discriminating.
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anotheytraitii is not online. anotheytraitii
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19 May 2014 10:58 AM
South Africa was the first country to accept marriage equality!

But yeah... it seems like South Africa has a problem of racism now, from both sides.
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Davdanther is not online. Davdanther
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19 May 2014 11:54 AM
I'm Sorry but:

- http://edition.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/02/08/labelle.corruption/index.html

- http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/africa/110126/protests-riots-tunisia-egypt-lebanon-middle-east-north-africa

- http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Disease/diseases_NAfrica.html
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fdfxd is not online. fdfxd
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19 May 2014 01:19 PM
@Dav

It's over now, it's been over since 2013.

Even the EGP value is rising.

and BTW, if you keep doing that(Judging countries by past events)
I guess I will just have to counter now wont I?
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Davdanther is not online. Davdanther
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19 May 2014 02:00 PM
How long ago is " Past events "

I wouldn't call 2011 a " past event "

From your description, you can't judge a country from what has been going on from every second before now ...
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fdfxd is not online. fdfxd
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19 May 2014 02:05 PM
@Dav

US
-Obama is trying to justify privacy invasion
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NintyBoy is not online. NintyBoy
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19 May 2014 02:40 PM
Very few civilizations developed writing by themselves. Writing was created by the Mesopotatamians, Egyptians, Mesoamericans, and Chinese. The Mesopatamians spread their writing into Europe and the Middle East while the Chinese spread their writing to the rest of Asia. The Mesopatamians and Chinese couldn't reach Africa and Egypt never introduced their writing to anywhere else. So that's why Africa didn't have writing systems. The Europeans and Asians never made their own writing.
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Fraility is not online. Fraility
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19 May 2014 04:26 PM
"Writing was created by the Mesopotatamians, Egyptians, Mesoamericans, and Chinese"

"The Europeans and Asians never made their own writing"



"Writing was created by ..., and Chinese"

"The ... Asians never made their own writing"

At least try to be consistent when you're proving a point.
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PaintBuckets is not online. PaintBuckets
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19 May 2014 04:37 PM
@Abalonemas How would Africa get ahead of America?
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Keyrut is not online. Keyrut
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19 May 2014 04:38 PM
It's due to most of the countries being landlocked, little plants that support life, dangerous animals, etc.
In other words, 'Geography.' is the answer.
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crusader583 is not online. crusader583
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23 May 2014 01:29 PM
A lot of people here are calling me racist. Go figure.

What I'm trying to find out is why Africa didn't develop grand empires such as in Asia and Europe*


*(You people know that the kingdoms in Africa were fueled by the slave trade, as they sold their own criminals and war captives off to foreigners...)


(The Egyptians were not sub-saharan African, I'm actually not sure where they were from. Greek and Berber, maybe?)
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EmperorAntoine is not online. EmperorAntoine
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23 May 2014 02:36 PM
"You people know that the kingdoms in Africa were fueled by the slave trade, as they sold their own criminals and war captives off to foreigners..."

The kingdoms in West Africa that existed during the 1500s did. But not the rest of Africa. Mali, Ethiopia, and Songhai were grand empires.
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crusader583 is not online. crusader583
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23 May 2014 02:58 PM
Then what happened along the way? Why didn't Africa go the way of Europe or Asia? Did European colonialism have something to do with it?
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EmperorAntoine is not online. EmperorAntoine
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23 May 2014 03:09 PM
Yeah when Europe colonized Africa they crushed all the kingdoms and empires
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Davdanther is not online. Davdanther
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23 May 2014 03:41 PM
@Fd

Point?
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LordVladimirPutin is not online. LordVladimirPutin
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23 May 2014 04:10 PM

Africa's still a backwards, disease-ridden continent, save for South Africa which was brought up by the Dutch and British.
They got robbed
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