Why are most African countries undeveloped?
11/16/2007 10:42 pm
I wonder whether this is a discussible
topic as some people may be afraid of being misunderstood
to be racialists although I don't mean that.
I was listening to a friend during lunch time. He told me
why the Chinese female athletes achieved more excellent
performance than the male athletes did. He thought it was
because strength were more important in sport but the Chinese
men were not good at this. Black people were good at this.
Therefore, track and field were mainly black people's
world. It's a matter of races.
This has me think, comparing with highly developed Western
countries, why most African countries are very undeveloped?
Is it a mere coincidence or a necessity?
You may say that there are less natural resources in Africa.
But let's do not forget Japan. There are also less natural
resources and land in Japan. Besides, earthquakes are
frequent in Japan. However, after World War two, Japan
has now become a developed country. Comparing with Japan,
I don't understand why African countries are so undeveloped
and there are countless people starve to death everyday
in Africa.
Now, let's review the history. There were four brilliant
civilizations that once were prosperous. For instance,
ancient Chinese civilization and Nilotic civilization.
However, I've never heard there were comparable civilizations
that were created by black people.
Is this because the reason that Watson remarked a few days
ago? James Watson, the 79-year-old scientific icon made
famous by his work in DNA and won a Nobel Prize in 1962, said
that he was, "inherently gloomy about the prospect
of Africa" because "all our social policies
are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same
as ours ?whereas all the testing says not really."
There were once at least four human races some one hundred
thousand years ago. Then except for our remote ancestors
Homo sapiens (Homo sapiens is called "intelligent
human" in Chinese), other races have been eliminated
through selection or contest. Later Homo sapiens evolved
four main races (white, yellow, brown and black). What
will these four races' future be? Will they mix with
each other into a single race or divide into more races?
Will some races be eliminated?
the above question was posed... below is commentary relative to the question.
probably many reasons.. instability in government and plunders of sorts..
"Timbuktu", was a place of Scholarly activities, Trading of all sorts.. back as far as the 11th Century, it's part of the activities that brought the Europeans and other's to the region and thru the ages of many things which happen when traders began to stake claims and dominate and bring havoc in and thru the feudal nature that Trade creates. where sides began to get played one against the other... The common people of such region, seek refuge behind various leaders, who may be corrupt and over time deplete the resources that people may have gained from as a collective. and social disruptions come into being.
We see this on every continent.. to some degree. when people are pushed further and further to desolate lands, their progress is diminished as basic survival become the pursuit more than innovations and further pursuits of educational excellence.. and they hold to the tribal traditions which are meant to keep them safe as possible, at the expense of integrated advancements.
We can see a prime example of this in the amazon, as well as region of the rain forest .. and surely in current day situation like Maynamar.. The Congo and so many regional areas.. we can look at Iraq and Iran with all the oil wealth that never gets down to the people, nor does the great wealth that inspires the cities does not get to the common people in the form of education and other means .. Greed, by leaders, subjugation of people by leaders.. and external influences of other countries who assert authority and controls and even whole life format changes.. which put the common people at a disadvantage.
We can look at south Africa as a prime example of what Apartheid did to that nations, of holding one people back while utilizing the labors of the people and taking the fertile lands for themselves, and doing so by force and the barrel of a guy then laws enforced by the power of the gun to imprison a nation of people by the invocation of fears of retributions of many sorts.
We have the same things that happen even in our major metro's within many so called advanced and civilized to the high education nations.. the divide of the Ghetto and the suburban life, " go look at a "PUBLIC" school in a ghetto, and a public school in a suburban area.. it's ALL TAX MONEY, but the schools are very different, not just in appearance but in what it offers and what it provides. so the micro symbolisms of what difference you see are everywhere.. the same in China, to ask.. how can it have so many trillions of reserve cash.. but so many regions that still don't have proper running water, proper electrical services and roads and housing standards are so drastic in their differences in the poor regions, and why that money has not trickled in, and education come to the ready available grasp of the people..in such regions. The inner big cities are creating BILLIONAIRES, but there are people who may not make $300 a year in other regions.
so it's not a mutter of race.. it's a matter of the power brokers and not investing until they can dominate to their satisfaction and desire, until they have time to control and dominate and find their want of usage, they keep subjugated to feed their wants of cheaper labor pools.. and whatever other regions..
Poor areas produce windfalls for some of the power corrupt, they use them to create program and then they rip these program off before they ever reach the people whom they were designed to help support and prosper.
to investigate these kinds of topics people have to be willing to encompass more than a great many care to look at.. including the racism of people, the tribalism of people and the many many host of socialized prejudices that are a part of the general formation of societies... and how that has many many methods of exercise.
Racial and regional extinctions have been tried by many in the acts or efforts of diminishing a race, a tribal or ethnic groups down to insignificant numbers..
some by methods of vilifying it's leaders, exiling it's leaders, mass killings, ethnic cleansing; of which we saw in Rwanda, and this is created by outside influences, at one time for example the Dutch and other Nordic countries, would support one side and then shift their support to the other side, and during these shifts.. they have one people to usurp the other and dominate and subjugate.. We saw it in Germany with the extinction efforts of the Germans to try and rid the Jew of the lands and life.. We saw in Iraq with the gassing of the Kurds, we see the pressures and occupations of the Palestinians by the Israeli, the issues that were in Bosnia between the Croats and the Serbs.. South america between the Contras and the Sandinista..
We are not much different today than times back in ancient history, we as people just employ different means, The US invasion of Iraq, for Oil and claiming other reasons, but in the midst, it's occupation and the de-stability of the many 100,000's even millions that have had to flee to refugee camps.. and thus no one prosper in a refugee camp except the camp organizers..
so the subject matter is very broad, and it's filled with political drama of every sort, and prejudgments inferences of every sorts upon and about people and the propaganda machines that work over time to push the propaganda of their regime and agency.. and the masses of the people are lead and fed what they will believe and gives less than the first and hand full view of what is actually at play and what the actual motives are within the acts and actions.
let's look at America..
it was built up as a nation that was made powerful off of slave labor, but in it's process it held back, held down and created institutions of many sorts to degrade, down rate and uneducated the masses of black’s then it used the acts and actions of stereotyping and spreading of such by studies that were biased based on it's standards which it kept from exposure, involvement and interactivity, being withheld from the blacks, and assessed them by these same denied,educational pursuits and diminished quality in the segergated institutions, of it's masses whom were ALLOWED to freely obtain education, it imposed subjugation that penalty for reading and learning, it forbade acquisition and wealth gaining and holdings. and upon legal change it segregated and yet provided unequal in treatment, consideration and action, and thru laws it segregated again into poor structured communities became to be known as ghettos, where despair was a norm, that breeds violence, chaos and contentions, and then it further gave itself reasons to attach stereotypes by creating conditions that would justify their stereotypes.. and this process has not vanished..
systematic subjugation is a process formulations that has many forms of devise while it may care to portray itself as being other.. it perpetuates what it was intended to .. and that's a segregation of the masses.. America was created by and thru that process, and it gained it's wealth and prominence thru and by that methods.. and it's like a tree that has grown up bent, how do you straighten it.. once it's grown and aged... and what it creates it later despise because it has built within itself it's own elements that had the ingredient of repressive acts and actions, and subjugation of all sorts and over time, those elements rise and spread to include infecting the host.. and now the same conditions that it created and supported of repressive and subjunctive methods of a two class society.. has not become something that hold down not just the black but many whites as well.. so the elements within it's creation is not showing it's self more and more as the hands of the controllers grasp and collected wealth that is tainted in ways that it tarnishes the whole. A divided house cannot stand... and a house of contention cannot find peace..
an example.. union Jobs.. When mostly white males held Union jobs and made top salary, it was said Union jobs were the greatest thing ever, but when Union Jobs had to include blacks and women, it was then said, that Union jobs paid too much and was a burden to society, so they shipped out the jobs and busted the Unions.. This is just an outgrowth of the same prejudicial mindset that created America is the same one that is it's own demise.. it refuse by any and every means to change from what it was..
if it had continue to support the unions the same as it did when it was dominantly white male, then we would continue to prosper, but the curtailment to insure that the blacks and women does not prosper with the same balance as the white male.. is the downfall of America industry the same as it was the down fall of the South, post slavery.. the white plantations owners, instead of embracing the black workers and paying a fair share for labor and products, choose to not pay the black labor but yet expected the work and not a fair share of the gains, so the labor left and went north.. And the South faltered.. by it's greed and not embracing equality forcing segregation and impositions of denials of every sorts, to provide a fair share for the labor required to keep the plantations prospering.
Japan and China prospers,. because it does not have the prejudicial divide of such natures.. what is good for one is good for all, but America was not built by nor with that, it was built on white, is right, and what's for whites is not for blacks, and what is available unto whites will not be available to blacks.. and this nations has found it's demise in the same things that gave it it's rise.. the difference is.. when it could enslave the blacks to free labor it progressed but when it came time to pay the blacks for labor it refused and so it demise reflects that. and as long as it continues with this nature of mindset that is the undercurrent of America.. america will continue to fall further and further..
the laws say equality but the mindset of people cannot and will not embrace it with their heart .. and so America and it's internal bias and covert prejudice is it's down fall... and the tokenism will not support what it claims of equality.. until it fully embraces what is equality.. and it is yet to do so... it will continue to ship off it's labor than to fully integrate it's labor required jobs in a equilibrium of fair play and fair pay.. so it claims that cheaper labor is it's answer, and that cheap labor makes other countries prominent at the expense of the america claim of it's equality which it denies as it proclaims to embrace.. and it slips further and further into the demise built within it's own design.. of segregation and inequity.. It ignores the advances that it's blacks has made to the progressive development not just thru the labor intensive period of pre industrialization but within the contribution that were made that propelled the industrial periods and the contribution in to the technological period.. America, until it can change it's manner and it's disposition it cannot continue to prosper and lead the world, for it's premise is flawed and it's constitution within the structure is not adhered to without bais and nor is it employed with embrace of full equality.. but until corporate leaders can open their eyes to see beyond the structure of the generalized corporate molding that was built and based on segregation not only of blacks but women.. until they can see that is the demise of a nation, it's industry and it's progress.. it will continue to erode, while it pays more and more to the top controllers who are the white male, at the expanse of the over-all population.. Prejudices that built America are destroying America.. and they fear to look and face such truth is the ignorance of man.. to what man does to mankind and himself.
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when help is needed and 
What does it take for the understanding to change. what does it take for the Mindset to change.. and what does it take for .. a look within self.. and find ways to rid self of the deeply ingraned assumptions of entitlment, and first option selection and the thoughts and wants and acts.. to only throw the scraps.. unto others.
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