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Post by asdf on Jan 23, 2005 7:18:18 GMT -5
I think half this board does that.
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Post by asdf on Jan 23, 2005 7:18:49 GMT -5
I found that hard to quote, as the whole paragraph was much just one big run-on sentence; anyhow: sub-Saharans, if you want to call them "racially homogenous", definitely aren't culturally. Aren't there at least a couple of black-on-black ethnic cleansing wars going on as we speak? There's more to the homogenous-countries-work-better idea than race. I think it is true that a countries like Japan, which are culturally, linguistically, and racially homogenous (or as close to it as exists) have the huge advantage.
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Post by Springa on Jan 23, 2005 7:48:52 GMT -5
Yeah. One of the reasons why most of Africa is such a chaos is that many countries were divided artificially, based on geography, latitude, longitude, etc... not on the historic territories of each ethnic/cultural group. So you'll mix all kinds of rival groups together in the same piece of land you there you go... I mean, just imagine what the Israeli-Palestinean conflict would be like if the Israelis were as poor and backwards as the palestineans are nowadays. Or better, imagine what the Israeli-Palestinean conflicts would be like if both parties were as backwards as central Africa and had no infra structure to begin with... It would probably look a bit like Rwanda. Anyway, I'm not saying that's the ONLY reason. But comparing to the Americas, most of the African colonies weren't nearly as developed when they became independent, no trace of industry, stable agriculture, almost no Europeans actually settling there, etc... The development was just a minimum so that the Europeans could survive and send some bucks back home. I know I went off topic, I'm sorry. I found that hard to quote, as the whole paragraph was much just one big run-on sentence; anyhow: sub-Saharans, if you want to call them "racially homogenous", definitely aren't culturally. Aren't there at least a couple of black-on-black ethnic cleansing wars going on as we speak? There's more to the homogenous-countries-work-better idea than race. I think it is true that a countries like Japan, which are culturally, linguistically, and racially homogenous (or as close to it as exists) have the huge advantage.
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