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What in the world.. I would expect better.. Africa is not a country, you can't speak about it as such. The North, West, East and South are as different as any
by nicpottier 11y ago
What in the world.. I would expect better..
Africa is not a country, you can't speak about it as such. The North, West, East and South are as different as any two random countries in the world and within each there is even more diversity.
South Africa is a first world country, Nigeria is a crazy mix of poverty and development, Kenya is bursting with technology innovators taking their first steps, Burundi is barely hanging in there.
You can't use the term Africa and make any general statement about it, it is just too damn big and varied. Most people just have no concept of the scale there, but I always love pointing people to this map to help:
http://static02.mediaite.com/geekosystem/uploads/2010/10/true-size-of-africa.jpg http://static02.mediaite.com/geekosystem/uploads/2010/10/tru...
Yes there is tremendous opportunity in various countries there, and yes, they come with caveats, but please, let's stop treating an entire continent as if it was a country.
- cb18 11y agoSouth Africa seems to be having a lot of trouble lately, of a sort that doesn't comport with most people's understanding of 'first-world' country. https://www.google.com/search?q=south+africa+trouble https://www.google.com/search?q=south+africa+trouble https://www.google.com/search?q=is+south+africa+safe+for+white+people https://www.google.com/search?q=is+south+africa+safe+for+whi... https://www.google.com/search?q=south+africa+violence https://www.google.com/search?q=south+africa+violence Accounts of Johannesburg: http://imgur.com/BO5YwQl http://imgur.com/BO5YwQl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuNYOwKlDIE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuNYOwKlDIE
- toyg 11y agoRacist 4chan screenshots, really? South Africa is a complicated country, but it's not like the "first world" (US in primis) is completely void of huge ghettoes and racial issues.
- cb18 11y agoThat was just one striking on the ground account, the recounter didn't seem 'racist.' You can find plenty of other info from more respectable sources. Albeit more staid in presentation. http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2015-12-09-the-day-we-realised-were-in-serious-trouble/ http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2015-12-09-the-da...
- Will_Do 11y agoI really don't understand the cherry picking of arguments. Someone posts 6 links and you have a problem with one. So what? Anyways south Africa is definitely not a first world country. Gdp per head at ppp is 13k[1]. This is substantially poorer than countries like Turkey and Thailand that are often considered third world. Middle income though? Sure. [1]http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?order=wbapi_data_value_2014+wbapi_data_value+wbapi_data_value-last&sort=asc http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?order=...