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Can someone explain to me why all the African countries are all like poor and war-torn and stuff? I know that Guns Germs and Steel guy had an explanation but I don't know what it is and people think its bad now or something.
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Sep 18, 2015 17:10
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basically they gave guns to the germs and now they steal
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Sep 18, 2015 17:11
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because of white ppl
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Sep 18, 2015 17:11
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capitalasm
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Sep 18, 2015 17:11
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basically white imperialists hosed up africa hundreds of years ago and they've never been able to pull themselves together, whether that's their fault or the white imperialists fault in this year 2015 is up for debate.
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Sep 18, 2015 17:12
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i didnt read this at all but it is the first result for "why is africa poor" http://economics.mit.edu/files/7641
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Sep 18, 2015 17:12
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I think it has somethign to do with Metal Gear ?
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Sep 18, 2015 17:13
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Their lack of navigable waterways didn't allow them to participate in trade and build their economies like most other regions.
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Sep 18, 2015 17:15
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yoruba
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Sep 18, 2015 17:16
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CISMALES DID 9-11 posted:because of white ppl
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Sep 18, 2015 17:17
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because of the gays ofc
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Sep 18, 2015 17:19
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The white man keeping them down. Superstition instead of education.
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Sep 18, 2015 17:19
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POWERBALL posted:Can someone explain to me why all the African countries are all like poor and war-torn and stuff? I know that Guns Germs and Steel guy had an explanation but I don't know what it is and people think its bad now or something. Imagine if people like Obummer were running a whole continent for thousands of years. We are lucky they are as good as off as they are.
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Sep 18, 2015 17:22
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debeers diamond corporation wanted a lot of diamonds, but the diamonds were underneath a place where people lived, so debeers gave a lot of money to other people, who didn't like the first group of people, and said here is money, get some weapons and kill all those peoples. they didn't say kill like exactly they just said take care of them and wiggled their eyebrows to show that they didn't mean buy them a milkshake. so the people debeers hired killed a lot of the people who lived on the diamonds, and debeers got the diamonds, and everyone was happy.
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Sep 18, 2015 17:25
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colonialism and exploitative developed nations robbing their resources and propping up shithead dictators as long as they keep the oil/gold/diamonds/whatever flowing
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Sep 18, 2015 17:27
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if humans all came out of africa then wouldn't africa be the richest and most advanced society? checkmate, science.
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Sep 18, 2015 17:28
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POWERBALL posted:Can someone explain to me why all the African countries are all like poor and war-torn and stuff? I know that Guns Germs and Steel guy had an explanation but I don't know what it is and people think its bad now or something. Lack of education
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Sep 18, 2015 17:29
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White people rolled in, stole everything of value, then told people that the worthless rocks they can get from underground are actually worth killing each other over.
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Sep 18, 2015 17:30
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POWERBALL posted:Can someone explain to me why all the African countries are all like poor and war-torn and stuff? I know that Guns Germs and Steel guy had an explanation but I don't know what it is and people think its bad now or something. Jesus stops loving people after their skin gets darker than a pair of khakis
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Sep 18, 2015 17:30
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lack of a strong white leader obviously. just look at the success stories from when the whites were running things. they leave and everything goes to poo poo. it couldn't be anymore obvious; I mean Obama is a Kenyan, he got a little white blood in him, now he's the drat president what more evidence do you need
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Sep 18, 2015 17:33
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after Ernest Goes to Africa everything went to poo poo there. I'm not sure what happened. *stares blankly into the distance*
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Sep 18, 2015 17:33
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Booblord Zagats posted:Jesus stops loving people after their skin gets darker than a pair of khakis no he uses the brown paper bag test like everyone else. observe him sit in judgment: 
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Sep 18, 2015 17:34
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postcolonial collapse + global capitalism
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Sep 18, 2015 17:41
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Good question op. In my opinion it's because of all the stupid nUSER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST.
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Sep 18, 2015 17:52
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CISMALES DID 9-11 posted:because of white ppl
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Sep 18, 2015 18:00
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*lights dim, deep booming voice echoes off the fuggin walls* The white man!
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Sep 18, 2015 18:10
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Frog Act posted:postcolonial collapse + global capitalism yeah
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Sep 18, 2015 18:15
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People are critical of Jared Diamond because he's an ecologist who wrote a history book, so he got a bunch of facts wrong and his ideas were too deterministic. Environmental history is a legitimate topic but his book failed to properly consider things like human agency and Eurocentrism. Europe still had full-blown colonies in Africa into the 1960s, and when that system collapsed it wasn't a dignified handing over of power--it was through civil war and rebellion. Since then it's been a struggle for African countries to get off the ground for the same reason a lot of Middle Eastern countries are still so lovely. Borders were drawn by Europeans with no consideration for African ethnic and cultural presence, so you have people groups split between multiple countries and majority groups oppressing those split minorities because that's what people do. The people in charge are backed up by Europe, America, and Asia because it's not like colonies going out of style was going to stop outsiders from wanting all those resources. Add in things like tropical diseases, radical Islam, poor climates for agriculture, and whatever else is left over after hundreds of years of colonial oppression and you've got Africa.
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Sep 18, 2015 18:30
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to all the people that blame the white man: africa wasn't exactly doing so hot before the white man arrived, which completely invalidates your theory.
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Sep 18, 2015 18:34
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Fitzy Fitz posted:People are critical of Jared Diamond because he's an ecologist who wrote a history book, so he got a bunch of facts wrong and his ideas were too deterministic. Environmental history is a legitimate topic but his book failed to properly consider things like human agency and Eurocentrism. Thread topic answered.
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Sep 18, 2015 18:37
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Colonialism, imperialism, industrialism, capitalism In that order
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Sep 18, 2015 18:38
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Kleen_TheRowdyDog posted:to all the people that blame the white man: africa wasn't exactly doing so hot before the white man arrived, which completely invalidates your theory. "wasn't doing so hot" is entirely by white colonial standards, which conveniently was the argument used to justify colonial oppression
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Sep 18, 2015 18:40
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Nation posted:basically they gave guns to the germs and now they steal 
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Sep 18, 2015 18:40
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beacue your gay and af ag and ur a homo
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Sep 18, 2015 18:41
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Hot new social theory straight from GBS: Slavery was actually good because it brought civilization to savages
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Sep 18, 2015 18:41
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Commie NedFlanders posted:"wasn't doing so hot" is entirely by white colonial standards, which conveniently was the argument used to justify colonial oppression I think slavery still being a thing at the time in east Africa was also one of the excuses that the colonial powers used to try to "save" Africa from itself (and from the Arabs)
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Sep 18, 2015 18:43
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Commie NedFlanders posted:"wasn't doing so hot" is entirely by white colonial standards, which conveniently was the argument used to justify colonial oppression you wouldn't have lasted 2 seconds in pre-colonial Africa, so i don't know what you're playin at
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Sep 18, 2015 18:43
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that's not really a kind of post, maybe a  at best but really more a  any dumbass who went to college has heard of that book
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Sep 18, 2015 18:43
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you gotta hold your vinces in reserve for the real crushers, like the retard masturbator or the "homeschool is tough" in the thread about wanting to gently caress the teacher, otherwise it just becomes meaningless
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Sep 18, 2015 18:45
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Commie NedFlanders posted:Hot new social theory straight from GBS: you have been possessed by the ghost of viletat
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