Comments by "lif3andthings" (@lif3andthings763) on "Wendover Productions" channel.

  1. Owen .J India? Nigeria has larger middle class than India. The Aborigines were almost completely wiped out by disease and massacre. And Singapore is a small country with one people. Gtfo dont try to compare them to the most diverse and 2nd largest continent on the planet.
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  2.  @theankotze1292  If apartheid had stayed the economy would have stagnated as well and their probably would have been war. South Africa will eventually get through its hard times. Black South Africans living conditions are improving.
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  3. @Bruzzh 2121 Cold winter theory is bullshit. Or else civilization would have started in Northern Europe or something.
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  4.  @cleetorres676  The non existent biological differences that you can’t even prove with genetics?
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  5. Except that its bullshit. Why would civilization develop in the Middle East, India, Egypt, and Semi Tropic China first and not in Siberia or Sweden. If that was the case then why was Central and Southern American civilization more consolidated then the ones in the north. Why hasn’t Europe been on top forever then. This “theory” requires some serious mental gymnastics to prove.
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  6.  @realtalk6195  Zambia is not owned by China. Rwanda is literally helping Mozambique kill terrorists.
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  7.  @hogatiwash7750  Under colonization African colonies weren’t built up with civilian infrastructure and industry they were left to compete in a world where industrialization was the most important thing.
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  8.  hussein noureldin  the dam is not even fully built and they are only partially filling the dam to see what happens they aren’t filling it in 3 years. Also please explain how the fuck Egypt has been really nice? They are threatening military action and on live television suggested creating a coup in Ethiopia.
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  9. Man you guys in this comment section literally know nothing about the continent.
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  10.  @saudmubarak8324  what?
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  11. How did Africa look a thousand years ago? How is that comparable to Africa today?
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  12. leonard u not every country in Africa is a shit hole only ignorant idiots generalize a while continent.
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  13. @ Pascal Buffalo Better than the slavery, resource exploitation, Congo Free state, and invasion of western powers that destroyed the exisiting states and regime changes genocide and wars that followed because of the retarted borders that were drawn and if you knew anything about African history before Europeans involvement you wouldnt even say that. I'd rather live to 30 and in a "mud hut" rather than live in horrible housing with the constant threat of war shit education and famine and my leader being bought in order to supply resources to foreign countries. Africa already had Empires and Kingdoms when the Europeans arrived they destabilized the continent then split it up. They would have developed naturally unlike Europeans who had to cross oceans and continents. Africa had everything to develop and still does. They could only if foreign powers would just compeltely leave the continent alone. Both the West and the East are making it worse. If they traded with Africa like a normal partner new Leaders would eventually rise to meet the needs of the people. Africa would have be better off without European colinization. It might be hard to beleive but people will naturally try to make their lives better if they are actually able too.
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  14. Roman Ruiz you know the Belgians created the rift between the hutus and tutsis. Since the the tutsis were lighter they were placed above the hutus were they abused the lower class. That would lead to years of resentment which came to a head in the Rwandan genocide.
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  15.  @bernardcraine  they aren’t doing it as fast as they can though.
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  16.  hussein noureldin  As Wendover explained this project can be good for everyone but I think Egypt will ruin everything and cause so much instability in the region.
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  17.  @parrismd  Decolonization only ended 60 years or less and it also depends on which country you are talking about.
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  18.  @theankotze1292  Isn’t Ghana on a good track?
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  19. Then please explain this. By your comment I can reasonably assume that Western Europeans have the highest IQ. Then why haven’t they been on top for all of human civilization? Why wasn’t there ancient British armies sailing to take Ancient Egypt or Mesopotamia? Why did it take so long for them to dominate and why for so short of a time?
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  20. Some countries like Kenya and Ghana are in good positions these generalizations are really annoying.
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  21. Exactly how much if this infrastructure was left over by Britain and Germany? What was the politics of Tanzania like before colonization? Do the peoples get along? Did Germany or Britain leave any good institutions (education???).
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  22.  @Maxime_K-G  Free trade isn’t necessarily the answer when you are a poor country that produces raw materials. Think about it for a second. Foreign companies can do what they want and that is exactly what is happening. Also keep in mind not all African countries went this route.
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  23.  @m2h2l  Egypt can not project power down into Ethiopia.
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  24.  @kjell744  Ahhh Richard Lynn the known neo nazi who compiled some of the most horrifically biased data on IQ known to man and was cites like 20 times in the bell curve.
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  25.  @dannydanny865  I mean the electronic device you are using likely did cause the suffering of another human being.
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  26.  @mayman10  They dont understand thats what every other country did. In this globalized world if you leave them completely private as a developing country foreign companies WILL take advantage.
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  27.  @Mo-kh9bw  Dont you guys have like Medieval level irrigation systems. This damn is not new news you guys should have been working on your water efficiency. Also don’t you guys have a massive aquifer?
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  28.  @xpusostomos  So you are telling me there were significant changes to intelligence genetically in a matter of a few thousand years? When and how exactly did this occur? Why is it that cold environments and not jungles, or deserts provide the harshness necessary to evolve higher IQ in a few thousand years? So again does North America Natives just not matter? Also various populations have even’t been genetically isolated for any real period of time? You realize that it was Near Eastern farmers that make up the majority of European dna. Where did these people come from and when did they migrate through Europe .
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  29.  @ichigokurosaki3205  They have most of Africas debt and under their domination Africa was seen as the hopeless continent.
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  30.  @jp3103  The fuck did you mean by a 30k year head start? Nubia had civilization before much of Europe, Axum was one of the worlds great powers, and the Mali Empire could probably beat most European states at its peak.
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  31.  @buffkonradin  Explain most of eastern Europe? Why is Argentina so shit?
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  32.  @alynames7171  China has always had a massive economy it is just taking back its place. South Korea on the other hand was built through authoritarianism and American money to fight against communism.
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  33.  @giantnoah  Boers were poor slave having farmers before the British made South Africa a trading post along the empires routes, and invested capital into the mining companies.
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  34. West Germany literally had most of the countries important cities and economic resources.
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  35. James Davis your saying they didnt have building or roads now your just spewing shit even ancient Great Zimbabwe had that.
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  36. Soviet Union Do you know what affects IQ. Do you also know what the Flynn effect is?
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  37. Jimmy John Eastern Europe is not in peace there is a hot war going on right now in Ukraine and social unrest in others.
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  38.  @tengkualiff  No it is not the vast majority of African debt is with the west. By your logic Africa is already in a debt trap lmaooo.
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  39. When you generalize Latin America you seem to be only talking about Argentina and Venezuela. Only a few of those countries are worse of then they were in the past. Only Botswana? You could argue Ghana, Rwanda, and other countries have ok institutions. Do you think colonization and the cold war played no role in the trajectories of these countries?
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  40. Bruh Southern Africa is not inhospitable the fuck? Mutapa,The Swahili Coast, and even the Zulu or examples of that being false.
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  41.  @xpusostomos  What kind of aid and is any of that adjusted for inflation? There is a difference between foreign direct investment, and just sending food.
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  42.  @meneither3834  What about the Balkans? What point of Polish history are you talking about? Was the Nazi and Soviet occupation colonization? Stop picking and choosing the few from the many. China was never really colonized and I don’t care what you say. Korea was built by US money as a bulwark against communism. The Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia, Papa New Guneia etc etc are still not doing well. India (probably the only one you have a point on), Vietnam, and most of the Maghreb countries still have quite a long way to go.
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  43.  @gartenzwerg44795  Wet and Dry seasons occurs across most of Africa and southern Asia as well. You realize how long the Nile is?
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  44.  @scottanno8861  Mesopotamia was a lot greener and lush when civilization was founded there. Climate change made it harder to live there over time not easier to live there.
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  45.  @dannydanny865  Because they had to keep the people on the stick. If they treated them to badly revolutions would happen and its not like the wealth gained from empire and slavery didn’t help.
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  46.  @ZontarDow  Most of the world was still capitalist during the cold war and yet many of them are still poor to this day.
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  47.  @okgroomer1966 for who?
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  48.  @teswsenbet1041  Yeah and if they did that they would make enemies with Sudan as well.
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  49. Tr4ns D0n4ld People really don’t know what they are talking about it isn’t just white farmers that are being attacked its black farmers too. The farms as seem as easy targets no matte the race.
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  50. ba guette what so all africans were living with wealth and not starving during colonization?
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