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LadyEllen -> RE: .BrownboycottsMugabe. (9/21/2007 3:45:53 AM)
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ORIGINAL: seeksfemslave
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ORIGINAL: LadyEllen
I dont believe the problem is anything to do with race though; its about culture is what my feeling tells me. E
How do you seperate the two then?
Were you viewing spaceship Earth from spaceship Utopia would you not see clearly identifiable patterns across the racial divides. ?
Why did say Europe climb the scientific intellectual and economic peaks and Africa didn't.?
The reasons for Europe's rise and the lack of such a rise elsewhere on the planet is a whole other debate Seeks. In short, our proximity to other advanced civilisations (the Middle East/Africa, the communications with China via the Silk Road, the communications with India), all played a part in widening our horizons. Put that together with the easily accessible natural resources we have in Europe and the continual conflicts driving innovation and that should suffice I think. Africa meanwhile did not benefit from all this for the most part.
Yes, Africa is culturally different from us and ethnically too in terms of its original inhabitants - but Africa is also a big place with many different peoples with individual cultures. Part of the problem, as MC pointed out, is that these cultures have become tainted and overtaken even, by colonial culture. We have moved on from this culture of privilege and status for some (perhaps) but they havent.
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