one of the major factors in global, particularly African, poverty is the fallout from the Colonial period. Africa has a wealth of resources, which is why the rest of the world wanted to go there themselves. what happened was that the Colonial system took control of resources out of the hands of Africans and placed it with "superior" white foreigners. naturally, this had a terrible effect on the average African.
Actually, the people who came over to Africa from Europe traded for resources. Later they set up the colonies and what not and started gaining power. The trading practices, particularly the slave trade, had already been going on before the Europeans got there. Really, do you want to nit pick over taking of resources? Every nation, every people has done it. Demonizing the Europeans that went to Africa and took over certain areas is hypocritical when looking at the course of history since it first started being written down. And actually, the "white foreigners" were superior because they were more advanced with their technology. Superior need not be a bad word. If you can beat me at a game of checkers, you are superior to me in checkers.
then there was the backlash after WWII, where Africans fought alongside their British, Dutch, Portuguese, and French ruling classes for those white peoples' freedom from oppression and foreign dominance. obviously, it was hard to maintain a colony after that kind of thing. so they walked away. they signed some declarations and headed back to Europe, throwing Africa into utter turmoil and destroying any chances it had of self government or sufficiency. which was convenient, since this allowed these same nations (plus many new ones, including the US) to sweep in and regain control of resources, but this time from a business standpoint. no matter how you spin it, the Western world is the reason that Africa is in the state that it is. like i said about Jamaica, they are continually making agreements that damn these countries to a never-ending cycle of poverty and outside control. and all because of Western greed.
If we had lost the war, do you not think there would have been problems for said Africans, who by that point were Americans since they weren't shipped from Africa? They weren't fighting "for the white man," but they were fighting for themselves too. That's really far fetched about the whole "they couldn't have possibly self governed after all that." The individuals tribes have been self governing for centuries. They've had genocide and war for years too that had nothing to do with the Europeans. Concurring a nation, or continent is not a bad thing, nor should anyone, especially whites, be demonized for it. Alexander the Great, Napoleon Bonaparte, Genghis Khan, etc. All of them concurred nations and their decedents aren't made to feel guilty for something they had no involvement in. Also, the people didn't have anything to do with any of that. It was the leaders of countries that are now dead. "Western Greed" is business greed and political greed.
did you know that every time someone buys a Nintendo, they are supporting a foreign-influenced civil war in Africa? a specific mineral that is only found in one place in Africa is an integral part to the Nintendo operating system and it has fueled a civil war over control of the mines. can any of us honestly say that that has nothing to do with us? that it isn't our problem too?
That's not the US's fault. That's the fault of the people that use that mineral. Why does that mean that we, the US, have to send them BILLIONS of dollars in foreign aid, when we are hurting, because of a few companies that are based in our country and outsource their work to China? It is not the people's problem. They fight no matter what we do and you can't say it's all because of something that happened nearly 100 years ago. They kill each other because of their own corrupt governments, their own ethnic hate, and their own battles. The US is not responsible for the wrong doings of businesses. The businesses are responsible. Claiming otherwise means that the government is responsible for all business and what they do in foreign lands thus the businesses have no liability and it's all the US's fault.
most of the problems that the Western world (especially the US) has, it has created, directly or indirectly, for itself. and in the process it has destroyed the lives of many many people. the foreign problems that we create do not go away because we ignore them. that is how groups like the Taliban take root . we cannot allow that kind of thing to happen simply because we choose not to see what is going on.
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