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You may confuse basic demographic analysis with racism. Don't go there. People can have shitty countries regardless of their ethnicity. It is well known most A
by fsloth 8y ago
You may confuse basic demographic analysis with racism. Don't go there. People can have shitty countries regardless of their ethnicity.
It is well known most African countries have huge problems in providing basic education. Somalia included:
https://borgenproject.org/tag/literacy-in-somalia/ https://borgenproject.org/tag/literacy-in-somalia/
"The total literacy rate is 37.8 percent in the African nation. Men have a literacy rate of 49.7 percent, while only 25.8 percent of females are literate, "
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-highest-literacy-rates-in-the-world.html https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-highest-literacy-rat...
US, while not famous for it's performance in this field, clocks in at 86%.
I would give 9/10 chances you will get better primary education in US than in Somalia based on those numbers.
There are many reasons Africa has many complex problems. Lack of decent primary education is one of those problems (and the root cause of other problems).
Edit: ... unless, of course, you are critizing the suggestion that you can put a primary education to any good use in a foreign country, without any understanding of the rules of the society, the patterns of daily life and no networks. Which is totally correct. Your answer can actually be parsed into two compeletely different connotations.
- gridlockd 8y agoI'm questioning the "Use your education and you'll be fine" statement directed at a homeless person in Kenya, without any further context. We don't even know that person's educational background, beyond the fact that they're capable of writing basic English. That person has problems finding water to drink. I guess that's not part of the curriculum in the US. There's some missing information here between "use your education" and "you'll be fine". Maybe you'll get hired right of the streets in Kenya if you attended a highschool in the US. I wouldn't know - but neither does the person posing the question.