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Gross generalisations like “the people there lack humanity” make me very sad. I don’t know anything about the DRC and have never even visited Africa, but I bet
by doctor_eval 5y ago
Gross generalisations like “the people there lack humanity” make me very sad. I don’t know anything about the DRC and have never even visited Africa, but I bet the majority of people there care mostly about having good shelter, safety, enough food to eat, and looking after their kids the best they can.
Like everyone else in the world.
- RivieraKid 5y agoWell he's just describing his experiences. And I believe they are mostly truthful and that they generalize to some extent, in other words, the stark difference from other countries he's visited is not a statistical anomaly. He has hitchhiked across Africa (from south to north), the Americas and Asia so he has a lot of countries to compare. Are you saying that people are equally friendly, hospitable, kind and ethical across the world?
- doctor_eval 5y agoYes.
- RivieraKid 5y agoThat is very naive and incorrect.
- doctor_eval 5y agoWell - in a thread posted by someone from the DRC about saving animals from harm, you appear to have made a blanket assessment about a country that was literally torn apart by European colonisation, solely on the basis of a single book written by some (presumably) European white man who met a vanishingly small fraction of the population of the world’s 16th largest country and decided based on that tiny sample that the entire country “lacks humanity”. I hope you can perhaps see the problem here.