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PickleMan1212 t1_j2t5591 wrote

Why does Africa always suck?? Isn’t there like 75 countries there??

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Lanky_Fella t1_j2totp9 wrote

‘Suck’ is a bit rough. All of Africa (except Ethiopia) has only been independent for around 70 years (some even less) after colonisation. Plus most of Africa had the furthest to go to reach western standards of development, in terms of infrastructure.

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SnooLobsters8922 t1_j2vsdll wrote

It’s way beyond suck, it’s a massive clusterfuck and it’s the saddest thing that has ever happened in the world, literally (I’m sure who read thought it’s the holocaust, but Africa didn’t get that Oscar winning Spielberg movie).

Unfortunately I don’t think colonization explains all of it. Maybe warlords explain quite a lot

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p11gezn t1_j2w231u wrote

the cold war post independence probably adds quite a bit more

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SnooLobsters8922 t1_j2w8kih wrote

Yeah, but not really, right? Because there are colonies outside Africa that are fucked but not so fucked.

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Lanky_Fella t1_j2w2zm6 wrote

What are you on about with Spielberg 😂

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SnooLobsters8922 t1_j2w8isq wrote

Schindler’s list makes the holocaust be perceived as the worst thing that ever happened to humanity, but I question if that is really the case because we have had and still have pretty horrendous happenings. It’s the concept of ‘grievable lives’ — in our culture, some lives are more grievable than others.

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bukush t1_j2xj05v wrote

/u/PickleMan1212 Maybe you should read some history and you will find out why. Africa is how it is, just so you can type this stupid comment from hardware built on the back of african miners. You useful idiot.

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PickleMan1212 t1_j2xlrz0 wrote

Africa sucks at controlling the HIV virus. Africa sucks at growing food. Only in Africa do millions of people starve to death frequently. But they got pyramids, gorillas, zebras, more treasures. And thank you African miners for my iPhone. Apple is insanely corrupt with a great PR firm!!

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