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Originally Posted by Hawktel
My thoughts. Africa is a mess due to tribalism, and population pressure. I think they don't have the ability to get away from the Crab in the bucket syndrom to make Africa work on a globally successful scale.
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Tribalisme for a part, but don't forget that the Colonials have done a good job at teaching them the concepts of "greed".
I'm Belgian, one thing they don't teach here in schools, is how the Belgian Colonials pretty much plucked Rwanda and Congo clean, forcing them to convert with boatloads of missionaries, and then make them work for the benefit of said colonials...
obvious answer then was "oh, but we brought them civilization" yeah right...
Then after then became independent, you had the east block and the west block funding the tribes, supplying them with guns and ammo, so the precious resources wouldn't fall in the hands of "the others", all this , at the expense of the local population...
Then there is the pope, now they are very religious over there, and the pope goes telling them, they should not use protection, because it's not Christian... more misery in the form of AIDS and what not...
These people did not get a chance to progress according to their natural rythme, they had Western Civilisation thrust upon them, and the examples they got were not the good ones, they had a speed course in greed, oppression and everything in between, they have been messed around for hundreds of years, and they are be the target of ignorant criticism by a Westerner?? believe me , they would make small work of such critics if they ever had the balls to go over there to tell them...
And i would not blame them one bit.
Look at Nigeria, the most corrupt place on the face of the planet, poor population
And Shell is pumping barrels every day..
When does Nigeria come into the news? right, when "rebels" have interrupted the oil flow...
Nobody asks what happens with the money from the oil being pumped up, but i assure you the money is not used to upgrade the country to a better level..
Nobody cares about that, as long as the fuel stays under 2 bucks a Gallon.
Nobody at Shell cares either, they'll make a deal with whoever is in charge, be that Kim Il Sung, Sadam, Kadaffi, or the gang of thugs who happened to have killed the previous thug...Oil companied don't care about anything other then Money in their own pocket.. pure and simple, If Rome had wells, and the Mob took over the Vatican, The oil companies wouldn't give it a second thought to make the deal with the mob and put up a drilling operation on the big st Peters Square...