we white people arent genetically superior or anything of that racist stuff that our grandgrandgrandparents were thinking during the colonization era. the africans could, in principle, reach our level at some point in the distant future.

but right now, there is no doubt that our culture and our way of organizing our society and economy is vastly superior to the african way. and it will take them generations to catch up.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Jul 11 2017 12:20pm

because you cant handle how things works ?

He didn't say it was the western world's job to do so, but that these were the problems that needed to be sorted out before the a Marshall Plan could be considered. France is willing to help in the process, not take responsibility in it.

of course, im no cultural relativist. but i know this guy and he didnt mean it like that

Careful there. It would be wonderful if those countries were democratic, but democracy needs the right conditions to work well. Keep in mind that many of these countries have very low literacy rates and an overall garbage level of education, with no understanding of how this world works. That many just follow a tradition and vote whatever their father/husband/tribe chief/imam/local priest/etc tells them to vote (making these "leaders" easy targets for bribing and blackmail by corrupt politicians). That many of these countries have a complicated mix of cultural, religious and ethnical demographics with a long history of violence between them. And so on.

These things need to be sorted out first, because right now you can have a force a democracy in the sense that everyone gets to vote and every vote counts without cheating, but it won't be a free democracy. Trying to give democracy to these ignorant and structure-less societies is exactly what has caused much of the violence and dictatorships that have ruined the continent.

If the west wants to help Africa, the west's efforts should be directed into helping these countries create the right climate for a free democracy to flourish, and that is a process that will take years and consists in improving security, education and social functioning.

our countries have been destroyed far more often than theirs, as a frenchman you should know how many times our societies had to rebuild from literally nothing





as a matter of fact i did mean it like that, you know nothing dro94
and if you refer to the quotes fender keeps in his signature....nice out of context

however there must be certain differences between people (i dont know them and i dont believe in any supremacist crap, but the status quo is obvious enough), because missing education can not be the only explanation, even our illiterate forefathers did so much better
african culture and mentality is fucked up, you could tell them a thousand times that they need to use condoms and they will still end up believing their local priest preaching some other shit



fair enough, the choice of words somehow made it sound like that for me

This post was edited by ampoo on Jul 11 2017 12:49pm

When will france have its first kongo terrorist attack

When...

nearly 100 millions of africans are speaking french and the total population of african countries having french as first official first langage is 300 millions.

out of context, sure - signatures can only be so long. but misrepresenting your stance? hardly:

good post my friend!