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[jackhammer]

Originally Posted by lucifer_sam

I'd rather live in Africa than most of the rest of the world. It's very beautiful, and despite the crippling economic difficulties, it really is a continent abound in natural resources. It's a terrible shame what European imperialism did to Africa.

Yeah. Africa got completely fucked by Europe and still suffers today. Ignore the many dictatorships and civil wars that are rife, just blame those euro fellas.

[sleepy jack]

Originally Posted by lucifer_sam

I'd rather live in Africa than most of the rest of the world. It's very beautiful, and despite the crippling economic difficulties, it really is a continent abound in natural resources. It's a terrible shame what European imperialism did to Africa.

Hey man if I lived in Africa and I was looking at the US I wouldn't be crying over the economy.

[Thrice]

Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog

oh shut up, you're never here anyway.

Always here. Rarely post.

[Thrice]

Originally Posted by sleepy jack

Hey man if I lived in Africa and I was looking at the US I wouldn't be crying over the economy.

Ditto. I'd like to go to some plains in AFrica and snap a few photos. Thats a dream vacay.

Anyone here about that Ukrainian ship taken over by pirates off the coast of Somalia?

[lucifer_sam]

Originally Posted by jackhammer

Yeah. Africa got completely fucked by Europe and still suffers today. Ignore the many dictatorships and civil wars that are rife, just blame those euro fellas.

You're serious?

Why do you think there's so much destabilization in Africa? I know it's not black and white and there are plenty of reasons, but if you attribute anything other than imperialism to the number one woe of Africa, you're dead wrong. I'm not trying to implicate just Europe, either. Today, the United States and China have equally disparaging interests in Africa. I won't deny it. For centuries, natural resources (including people) in Africa have been pillaged and taken to other countries. And look today, at a continent where over half of the autonomous territories host destabilized governments and crippled economies. You seriously think that Europe's invasion of Africa in the sixteenth century had nothing to do with this?

Europeans may not be the only people to have fucked Africa, but they sure as hell were the first.

[jackhammer]

So even by your own words you admit that other continents have had a hand in Africa's slow economic growth and not just Europe. Your original post suggested that Africas ill's were down to European intervention and that we completely ****ed the continent. Guess what? Europe is made up of over 50 countries and a few never bothered making the journey. Making generalisations like that is akin to suggesting that every single state in America contributed to the indigenious population to diminish.

There is no doubt that European influence greatly affected African stability but to hold a whole continent responsible for all of Africas ill's is shortsighted.

Besides, Britain was too busy fecking up India to worry about Africa

[tdoc210]

Originally Posted by sleepy jack

I'd rather live in Africa than New Hampshire.

well i like the cold
i could live in the desert but only at night

[jibber]

Originally Posted by adidasss

Africa? Wow, that's an unexpected development...to do what?

Starting with an internship/assistant/job shadowing gig with a photographer that works there. then maybe move on to freelance work, maybe get a job with a newspaper in africa, or get a job as a photog for an NGO, I really have no idea. All I can really do is just figure it out as I go along. gotta love going into a profession where there is no career ladder whatsoever.