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#276 - Work's dull, but I've been seeing a lot of my friends and I'm … 49m ago on how are you, FJ? 0

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#81 - machiavellianhumor (9h ago) [-]

dont worry i had your mom call me daddy enough to get over it

#85 - Who would win? >Stone-age africans 100,000 years ago… [+] (8 replies) 9h ago on Is this racist? +8

#96 - bounod (8h ago) [-]

Ok I'm confused. You say the Africans do not have survival skills or that they do have survival skills? Shouldn't they have accumulated survival skills from generation inhabiting the area? Knowledge can be passed verbally and be taught by example. Something that the evil white man didn't have. The only thing you could argue that the knowledge was lost at some point, but it should not stop the innovation to start again and starting to grow.

Another thing is that you asserted the lions to be a reason for their regress. Sure it's widely spread in Africa but as you can see from the map, there's plenty of places without lions so shouldn't those be more progressive? I don't look at the picture and go "crazy how a white guy can be so skilled" but wonder "what prevents the Africans from progressing from those huts?". Not that the whole Africa lives in some mud huts, but to wonder why anyone does.

Either you expect more or practice soft bigotry of low expectations.

As a bonus question I'll like to hear your take on this: Do you think they have progressed from mud huts in the next 10 years? 100 year? 1000? Ever?

I am NOT saying they necessarily should, maybe the key to happiness is what they have and not what we have. I just know that having to live in those conditions I'd be spending all my waking hours trying to figure out how to make things better for myself, and it makes me expect they would do the same.

#127 - batmanuel (1h ago) [-]

Those are very difficult questions to answer since you're essentially asking for me to sweep generalisation across hundreds of tribes, dozens of countries and the second largest continent on Earth throughout millennia of civilisation. The plainest I can put it is that loads of African peoples made it out of the stone age. Others didn't. I'm not an anthropologist, so I can't tell you precisely why some did what others seemingly couldn't do. But there were loads of ancient empires and kingdoms dotted across the dark continent throughout history, and most of them simultaneously neighboured (and often enslaved) mud-hut dwelling hunter-gatherers. This makes it pretty clear to me that it isn't a racial issue, as the content might have you believe. If I had to make an uneducated guess, my supposition would be that certain tribes lived under a theology that eschewed technology in favour of a spiritual connection to nature (as many American Natives did and numerous hippies attempt to do today) and others did not. I haven't done much research on it though, so don't quote me on it as anything more than a hip-fired guess.

#88 - sensestre (9h ago) [-]

Your methode will be far more scientific but far less fun.

#86 - megamanmanmega (9h ago) [-]

Still, 100k years later you'd think they'd learn how to live in their own environment. Figure out what parts of the land are more prosperous than others. And how to make use of the resources they have at their disposal.

Then take into account the help from foreign powers and really what excuse is there?

#118 - Haentar (7h ago) [-]

Well a lot of information had to be transferred verbally, rather than through written language. That may have slowed progress.

#123 - megamanmanmega (7h ago) [-]

There are several ways where one person can pass knowledge to another. Something as simple as showing would be enough. Especially in an environment where survival skills isn't just necessary, but required to live.

As they grow you'd expect younger generations to learn from the older generation. From that point they'd take the knowledge already figured out, and refine it. A process like this would lead into what could be advances over the course of several generations making survival easier.

#119 - sweetbabyrei (7h ago) [-]

Take tool, dig a small ditch. Put seed in ditch. Cover seed back up. Water seed. Water sproutling. Water plant. Keep watering plant. Harvest plant. Take fruit, collect seeds from fruit. Wait till next year. Take tool. Dig a small ditch. Put seed in ditch. Cover seed back up. Water seed. Water-look man you get it.

Aside from basic crop rotation and maintenance, what's stopping them from fixing their famine problem?

#120 - Haentar (7h ago) [-]

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2449527.stm
This offers some interesting reasons.

Droughts, war, reliance on foreign imports.
Also of note is the lack of animals in most of Africa than can be easily domesticated.