Comments by "UzuMaki NaRuto" (@UzumakiNaruto_) on "Why is Africa Still So Poor?" video.

Europeans have exploited and plundered China for centuries and yet here they are today with practically the largest economy in the world and becoming ever more advanced each year. Why is it that the Chinese can learn from the Europeans and take advantage of all their technology, engineering, science etc. and have their people build upon that knowledge while Africans can't? The Chinese, South Koreans and Japanese all learned from the Europeans who were for many centuries much more advanced than they were and now those Asian countries are as advanced if not more so than their teachers.
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@palmshoot The Seychelles is a bunch of tiny ass islands with barely a population of 100,000 and they became more advanced thanks to the French and British bringing them there. That's hardly a good example of African success. Is there any predominately African run nation with millions in population that's currently successful, prosperous and is peaceful with low rates of crime and violence? I can't think of any.
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@palmshoot You're moving the goal posts by injecting the irrelevant metrics, like population, and I'm not playing along. So you ignore that the Seychelles weren't massively helped by the French and British who had occupied them for many years? That what the Seychelles is today is all from their own work and not from any outside influence? OK. Also population DOES matter. You can't possibly tell me that running a tiny nation is the same or as difficult as running a country that has a population of millions if not tens of millions. Cmon now. Everything is magnified by orders of magnitude from managing the economy, to social services and infrastructure to crime and violence etc. If that's the ONLY example that you can point out of a 'successful' African nation then that's pretty sad because its so small and even then its only moderately successful. Nearly every African country has been colonized by Europeans, but that's because the latter are invasive. It is telling, though, that Jamaica, who is richer than Kosovo and Ukraine (per capita) and has a population in the millions, is seeking independence from the UK. Why don't you acknowledge that as much harm that the Europeans and other nations of the world caused to African countries, they're also the main reason every Sub-Saharan African nation isn't still stuck in the stone ages? I mean seriously do you really believe that if the entire world stayed out of Africa all these centuries years and allowed African nations to develop on their own that they would all become modern, civilized and advanced nations in 2023? Please. This isn't Hollywood where these countries would all become Wakandas. This is reality where they would still be living now the same as they had thousands of years ago with little if any development. The reason any African nation is even mildly modern today is because the world literally gave them all their development on a silver platter and it allowed them to skip centuries of development and discovery that they would've had to do on their own. Yet STILL they find a way to screw things up and have extreme issues with living peacefully with each other and becoming modern, civilized nations. As for Jamaica, a huge portion of their economy is from tourism. Namely earning money from doing nothing but being lucky enough to be located in a part of the world with great weather that people like visiting. Also lets not mention that for a small population they have a murder rate that's near the highest in the world and is like 40-50 times higher than a nation like Canada who has 14 times larger population than them.
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@palmshoot It takes one example to disprove a generalization, so I've done my job. Damn imagine using that kind of logic in science, physics, medicine etc. 'I've provided one semi-successful example therefore I'm right even if every other example goes directly against my one single example.' Human history would be littered with far more disasters if one positive example is all that's required to prove something over dozens of other examples that show otherwise. Its like looking at a baseball pitcher and seeing he's had one great season out of 20 in his career and then declaring he deserves to be in the Hall Of Fame. One great season does not make a great pitcher. That would be dumb and its dumb to point out one tiny example that's not even hugely successful and then saying 'there's your proof'. Do you not find that to be sad and depressing that even after all this time we haven't seen even one major predominately black nation be hugely successful in modern human history? Your population argument falls apart when you compare China and India to the US. The US is smaller than the other two but has a higher average per capita income and even GDP. Likewise, Iceland has a higher per capita income than European countries that are larger by at least an order of magnitude. You're oversimplifying a multifactorial topic. You're just reaching. The US is 'small' when compared to the two nations with the largest populations on the planet. The US isn't small when it has a population of 332 million and is number 3 in the world in population. And again why even bother bringing in small nations as examples when its much easier to manage a tiny nation that a massive one? Do you seriously believe that if you had a family that raising one child is the same as raising 10 children? That the costs, the effort and time required to raise one child is the same as raising 10? Cmon now. You can't be that insane to believe its the same. What does the method of how Jamaica makes its money have to do with anything? They are tired of European meddling. It matters because it requires no effort. They just happen to have an island in a region that has nice weather much of the time and people like to go there. Even then the Jamaican people can't get their crap together and build a more prosperous and peaceful nation because they're too busy fighting and killing each other and has a murder rate that the majority of nations on earth can't compete with. Put the Jamaican people in Finland and see if they can gain even the same amount of 'success' that they have now? Put the Finnish people in Jamaica and see if they wouldn't make it the most wealthy and peaceful nation in the Caribbean? I think we know the answer to that. Some of the rest of your argument employs strawmen, so I'm free to ignore it. Moreover, arguing hypotheticals is counterproductive. Lastly, implying that "the world" is Europe is a Eurocentric view. Are you saying its a 'hypothetical' to say that without the world dragging African nations into the 21st century and helping them to become mildly civilized countries that many African nations would've become modern civilized countries anywhere near on par with western countries on their own? Please. You can't possibly be that insane and delusional.
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If it wasn't for colonization and now neverending support from the rest of the world, most of Africa would still be stuck in the stone ages living in mudhuts and still hunting with bows and arrows. There are African tribes today who have had little to no contact with the outside world who still live as people did thousands of years ago and haven't advanced one bit.
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