Talisker wrote:cyprusgrump wrote:Wingnut wrote:very accurate, cyprusgrump, if a little coarse...
the pc brigade can blame colonialism and poverty all they like. cypriots were so poor they survived on bread and olives for long periods of time. i remember seeing pictures of my parents walking through snow in troodos with cloth wrapped round their feet instead of shoes. how can africa, the breadbasket of the world, with so many resources, get it so badly wrong time and time again ?
i think the key is in the family structure. no father figure, no real family unit so kids grow up without role models and tend to perpetuate the cycle
colonialism and Christianity was good for them, they just didnt know it
makes me laugh as well when i hear politicians and the pc brigade in europe and the US talking about racism and how terribly the blacks are discriminated against. then i flip over the channel and see some black dude grabbing his cock and rapping about how he shot someone in the face then went home and banged his ho'.
the problem lies within their own community and social structure. until they tackle their lack of proper values they will never advance.
Very well put...
If ever an example was needed to demonstrate your point we just need to look at the disaster that Zimbabwe has become under Mugabe.
Oi, idiots, can't you see the problems with your thinking here? Let's consider this thread and how it has developed from the warning to those bastions of western civilisation, the English football supporter, that they may face a good slicing and chopping from the African savages (because obviously that's what ALL Africans do, from the Daily Star, FFS!) to our resident Daily Express and Daily Mail readers giving us their WISDOM and FACTS about the REAL problems in Africa.
Because, of course, all Africans rape, they all have AIDS, they are all corrupt, and, bloody hell, they always seem to be hungry, they just want to breed and breed and breed.........
And, of course, we in the West have nothing to do with this.....and they inconvenience us so much those Africans (because, they are ALL the same, never forget that), what with those annoying newsreel clips showing dying, fly-covered, children, those e-mails which have resulted in SO many of losing money and dignity (whereas all other Western-sourced spam is just fine and dandy!), and, you know, those of them who trek across the Sahara desert, then risk drowning while crossing the Med in any bathtub they can lay hands on because they are so desperate for work, the kind of work that we would not even consider doing, and, horror of horrors, some of our taxes (which are otherwise spent SO wisely) have to be spent on KEEPING THEM OUT!
There are now whole societies in Africa whose life has changed due to global climate change, for example nomads in sub-Sahara Africa cannot sustain their traditional lifestyles (which had no deleterious effect on the world around them, and certainly didn't affect you or me), although, no doubt you are climate change sceptics, and certainly wouldn't accept that western civilisation, led by the industrial revolution and an oil-based economy, has contributed to this, and therefore YOU bear no responsibility for the plight of those facing destruction of their environment and sustainable, non-damaging lifestyles.
Who is the more perverted, those UNEDUCATED people in Africa that think they can cure their affliction (AIDS) through intercourse with a virgin, or educated, pampered, free, full of their own self-importance, Westerners who would deny help to those, who, through no fault of their own, are facing poverty, famine, and a short life of misery?