Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "DW The 77 Percent" channel.

  1. And that poverty is a product of a government that can barely be bothered to develop a viable economy and allow the people to do something for themselves.
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  2. And not enough doing.
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  3. Especially for money.
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  4. These days, they're just being puppets to China.
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  5. Not all countries are dependent on tourism to feed themselves.
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  6. With the approval of African governments.
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  7. No. Africa's suffering more from centrally planned economies than anything else. Not enough economic freedom and entrepreneurship and too much reliance on government.
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  8. Governments won't listen until their money and power are threatened.
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  9.  @stephenodhiambo7556  But without a thriving economy, what good are those?
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  10.  @aliciogarcia1430  <For instance, food goes to trash in several restaurants worldwide, while famine still predomines in Africa.> That's because the government control the food in Africa which is a by-product of the socialist command-and-control model many African countries adopted at independence.
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  11. And Thailand. And the Philippines.
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  12. Not really. Not all countries are dependent on tourism to feed themselves. Not even the poorest of countries.
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  13.  @mid2k  The last thing Africa needs is another Liberia case.
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  14. That's because there are hardly many tourists in the country to begin with.
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  15. What do you expect from a kleptocracy?
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  16. And replace it with what? Black supremacy? Like what Zimbabwe and South Africa currently have?
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  17. And also maybe a new economic model as the current near-total state control one isn't working.
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  18. White tourists on average have way more money to work with. <And they won't be over there disrespecting and degrading their people, bcuz we are the same> The Black people in the DR would like a word with you on that.
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  19. Very much.
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  20. Does that also apply to Black men who have sex with White women?
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  21. Poverty is not the cause but the result of bad politics and a stunted economy.
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  22.  @okochaten  Natural resources don't mean anything if the people don't know how to put them to good use.
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  23. But the average American is still better off than the average Gambian.
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  24. They already do. But what has that done except further line the pockets of corrupt governments and stifle economies?
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  25.  @libertypltd4198  Exactly. Feminists and traditional conservatives don't want to lose their monopoly.
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  26. No. It's only a problem in countries dependent on tourism as their main source of income.
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  27. Only governments and those with ties to the industry do.
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  28. Human resources is the name of the game.
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  29. But buying sex is illegal there which is why Swedish men go to neighboring European countries to get their sexual needs met.
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  30. Not really since White men are the most well-to do having the most disposable income of all men.
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  31.  @jamesmccracken2542  I'm talking in general.
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  32.  @k.c.5426  And let the prostitutes be at the mercy of local men.
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  33. The country needs larger-scale private enterprise as not everyone can work for the government. Cuba is a poor example as the ability to get a job is based on patronage and nepotism as private enterprise is heavily restricted. Cubans are educated but have no job market to put that education to good use in.
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  34.  @JohnDoe-zb5mt  That's private enterprise owned and operated by outsiders on local soil. This is about establishing private enterprise owned and operated by locals.
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  35. It's perfectly fair. Tourists come to your country for leisure. Refugees (that's not say you're one) go to their country to escape war, tyranny and general backwardness of the leadership and society to actually live there.
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  36. He is right about not respecting all elders, especially the cowards and traitors who sold out the youth.
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  37. Europeans are the least of The Gambia's issues. The young boys and girls either chose to prostitute themselves on their own or were prostituted by their families.
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  38.  @tspcocktail  Like in Equatorial Guinea.
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  39. The Gambia like a lot of other African countries post-independence embraced socialism and its near-total state control model.
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  40. Most of the sex tourists in Germany are other White Europeans.
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  41. Just like the African kings of old.
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  42. Don't forget the sex.
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  43. Money. If not that then citizenship in said demons home country.
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  44. They do have other alternatives. They just don't have the vision or the care to establish them as apparently the current model suits them perfectly fine.
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  45. Exactly.
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  46. But Angola was an active slave-trader.
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  47. Agreed.
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  48. No. It's because the government stifles any attempt by people to create jobs via entrepreneurship and make an honest living.
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  49. Or mess up their tourism money.
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  50. The Gambia is anything but capitalist. And much of Africa is just barely a generation removed from socialism which done far more to hold it back than colonialism.
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  51. The Gambia like many other African countries already did that. Nationalize the natural resources. What has that done besides enrich governments and the well-connected while letting the people starve?
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  52.  @michellekabanga3612  LOL. No.
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  53. Not really. Judging by the vast majority of people who haven't engaged in unsavory activity in the face of their situations, poverty is anything but. I'd say idleness is more the driving force. <Simple solution that no government really wants to achieve, two to three square meals a day for each and every citizen.> And where is this infinite supply of food going to come from to do that?
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  54. Not really. Very few people in poverty are engaging in prostitution as most are not that desperate.
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  55. <Maybe those rich tourists should make donations for food and medecines and creates legal and self-respect jobs in tourism for Gambia, instead of taking advantage of someone who dreams of a better life.> No. That's the job of the Gambian government. This dependency mentality is part of the reason why the Gambia will stay in a rut.
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  56.  Your thoughts Not mine  Maybe so, but it's not the White man's fault that those many Asian countries freely chose to welcome them with open arms, open hearts, open legs and open borders.
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  57. People from the government are not innocent. They are collaborators, hence guilty.
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  58. <This is a global proooblem based on socio economical and patriarchal issues> Not really. Not all countries are dependent on tourism as their primary source of income.
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  59. That's pretty much most of the Caribbean.
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  60. Easier said than done as the government and the model does everything they can to undermine them.
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  61. No. The real problem is that the government WON'T take care of all its inhabitants of the country. And it figures when it controls most of the economy and hardly allows its own people to make money for themselves.
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  62. Alongside their local enablers and collaborators.
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  63. What's wrong with entrepreneurship?
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  64. Because America is not dependent on tourism to pay its bills. Not even tourism-heavy Florida. Plus, you said it yourself. America's sex tourism is domestic.
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  65. Not really. But their misunderstanding of religion coupled with socialism made them lazy and dependent on the sky or some benevolent tyrant to solve all of their problems.
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  66. Ditto for the prostitutes' families.
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  67. The Gambia is a Muslim-majority country.
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  68. Most of the tourists who go to the Gambia are not elite, but ordinary middle-class people.
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  69. Pretty much.
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  70. No. The love of money is the root of all evil.
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  71. 1 500 Euros = 94 065 Dalasi
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  72. Why should she? It's not like Africans care about other Africans.
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  73. All those Arabic countries are ruled by monarchs and theocrats. The people have next to no say over what goes on.
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  74. Which is a product of bad economic policy.
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  75. Exactly.
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  76. With help from other Africans.
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  77. Not really, Not all poor countries are desirable destinations.
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  78. Namely European men.
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  79.  @MrAmhara  You had that chance under Lincoln until he got assassinated.
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  80. Marxist thieves, that is.
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  81. Exactly.
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  82. The problems would still exist. It's just that the locals will be the ones doing the exploiting.
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  83. Poverty or no poverty, prostitution is a choice. Blaming poverty is a convenient excuse for lack of integrity.
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  84. A corrupt government is not going to save the children.
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  85. LOL
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  86. That corrupt leadership are most likely descendants of collaborators of said colonizers.
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  87. But Nigeria is barely capitalist to begin with.
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  88. Agreed.
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  89. <The leaders will not stand up for us because they don't care as long as they're right wealthy and the poor is still poor works for them.> Exactly.
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  90. State-run economy.
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  91. Poverty due to mismanagement/misappropriation/misuse/misallocation of resources.
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  92. Namely Eastern Europe.
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  93.  @wanelly  No. Ignorance, greed and laziness do.
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  94. It's not just the leadership but the people themselves.
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  95.  @Visionary_of_Love  And the lack of opportunities because the government doesn't care about anyone except themselves, their well-connected privileged friends and wealthy foreigners.
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  96. And people will starve because most of their economy is dependent on the government.
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  97. <It's sad. Unfortunately, Gambia is not the only country going through this. Its every country were the poverty level is astronomically high and wages absurdly low.> And a lot of it has to do with the government controlling too much of the economy.
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  98. <Corruption and poverty cause prostitution every were> No it doesn't.
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  99. Yeah! But they better not come begging the rest of society to pay their medical bills from the AIDS and other STD's they contract while at it.
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  100. The government.
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  101. How's this possible? Too much state control of the economy. And a populace at the mercy of the state for their survival.
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  102. Not really. A lot of them came from well-to-do families like Mia Khalifa.
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  103. 1 500 Euros = 94 065 Dalasi
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  104. The government needs that foreign investment.
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  105. But African governments won't because they're dependent on that tourism money to keep the economy afloat. Ditto for the families of the girls and boys engaged in prostitution to get by.
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  106. Maybe so, but that's not teaching Africans how to stand on their own two feet.
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  107.  @mindtwister1984  Apparently.
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  108. <This is all African countries situation....> No. Not all African countries are dependent on tourism to stay afloat. Not even the poorest.
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  109. Also Ethiopia.
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  110.  @okochaten  And how do you get those good meals on the table when they barely even produce their own food relying on imports from other countries?
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  111.  @bishwahh8710  Take it up with the Angolan government.
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  112. It's not the poverty, but the domestic economic policies that allow it. Cambodia is yet another socialist basket-case ruled by one of Pol Pot's ex-henchmen.
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