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<blockquote data-quote="Macsen" data-source="post: 203201"><p>I remember walking through a desolate village in the Zambian bush a few years ago. As I was walking through a little kid saw me, stated screaming like hell, ran off, and came back swinging a flimsy little axe. A few moments latter some older people turned up and tried to comfor him. I asked one of them what was the matter and he laughed and told me that the boy's grandfather had been telling him stories about the white people who came to the town and took the people away, and I was the first white person this kid had ever seen. (Plus I'm quite ugly so it must have been a traumatic experience for the kid.) </p><p></p><p>Anyway far from wanting us back I generally got the impression that African people wanted to be left alone to sort their own problems out. But I think there's something about africa that makes it hard to build a working civilization. Some people in Europe think we succeeded because we'r somehow better than other people, but I think it's just the climate. It's much easier to get things done in a cool and green country than in a hot and lifeless desert.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Macsen, post: 203201"] I remember walking through a desolate village in the Zambian bush a few years ago. As I was walking through a little kid saw me, stated screaming like hell, ran off, and came back swinging a flimsy little axe. A few moments latter some older people turned up and tried to comfor him. I asked one of them what was the matter and he laughed and told me that the boy's grandfather had been telling him stories about the white people who came to the town and took the people away, and I was the first white person this kid had ever seen. (Plus I'm quite ugly so it must have been a traumatic experience for the kid.) Anyway far from wanting us back I generally got the impression that African people wanted to be left alone to sort their own problems out. But I think there's something about africa that makes it hard to build a working civilization. Some people in Europe think we succeeded because we'r somehow better than other people, but I think it's just the climate. It's much easier to get things done in a cool and green country than in a hot and lifeless desert. [/QUOTE]
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