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Again, Incomplete and 100% BS anecdote.Again, Bullshit.
>> It is hard, after so many bad movies and so many encrusted lies, to think of them as urban, and it is hard for a Western mind to conceive of “tribal” and “urban” together; yet as late as the mid-nineteenth century the Yoruba city of Abeokuta ran six miles along the bank of the Ogun River and had a population estimated at 200,000. Its craft industries thrived – ironwork, carpentry, tailoring, farming, tool-making, textiles. And this urban culture had been thriving for centuries, a city probably older than, say, New York is now.Must be soooooo simple for the simpleminded to draw their history from Hollyweird stereotypes and the bottom-dwelling internet farces of Stürmfront and PragerFuckingU. Saves a lot of brain sweat.
Here, intact, a little more than a century ago, was a mature culture which had not chosen to go the way of monotheism and the father gods, but had, like India, kept its polytheistic pantheon rooted in the Great Mother religions – or rather, in the religious impulse we now identify with the Great Mother. They shared with the Hopi, with the ancient Irish and Welsh and all Druid peoples, as well as with the Chinese and the Eygptians, the mother symbol of the serpent – as Thompson puts it, “ancient Yoruba image of coolness, peace and power.” And they shared with pre-Christianist Europe – the so-called pagan religions – the conviction that religious worship is a bodily celebration, a dance of the entire community; or, as it would have been called in Euorpe when such belief had been driven underground, a “sabbat.” The mind-body split that governs European thought seems never to have entered African religion, African consciousness – at least not until imported there by missionaries. To meditate was to dance. << -- Michael Ventura, "Hear That Long Snake Moan"
But back up here Twinkles. Number One, "Asians" were never crammed into ships in shackles and sent against their will to a foreign world to be whipped into submission and dehumanized; Number Two, Japanese were not interned for their race, but for their nationality and the suspected loyalties that went with it; Number Three the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima do not constitute "Asia"; Number Four China has been hugely influential for literally millennia -- ask anyone from Mongolia or Thailand or Japan or Vietnam. Ask the Brits, Austro-Hungarians, French, Germans, Italians, Japanese, Russians and Americans who wanted to colonize and/or monopolize it specifically because it WAS big and rich.
Cult of Ignorance sales pitch is about as effective as the Amazing Vegematic from Ronco. If this is your best stuff, you need to find an occupation that doesn't involve "words".
Nothing like China's independently developed civilization.
There was no Africa civilization comparable to the West or Asia pre-contact with that West (and Arabs) who made it a trading post not just for slaves, but for gold and trinkets.
And I "presume" you forgot "Dr Livingtone"s 19th Century meeting after MONTHS of traveling through the savage tribal jungles of civilization-free Afrique.
Pre-colonial/Pre-contact Africa was zilch. Unlike NE asia.
Not all of sub-Sahara was raided for slaves either, but All of it is still ungovernable because
avg IQ there is 70.
Hybrid American 'Blacks' - 85... (avg 75% sub-Saharan, 25% 'white'/Euro)
'White'/Euro IQ - 100
NE Asian - 106
(Stormfront wouldn't be happy about NE Asians and Ashkenazi Jews/113 having higher IQs. So save the "White Supremacist".. accusation/EXCUSE)
And That (HARK!) is the way the world looks in accomplishment, domestically and globally.
Reality is always a good plug in!
The world makes sense only looking the the IQ lens.
(PS Abeokuta was founded in 1830, and unlikely 200,000 by 1850.
Even by 1911, Britannica had it at "60,000".
The houses/structures mostly "Mud" despite a profusion of "granite" outcrops.
1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Abeokuta - Wikisource, the free online library
1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 1
Abeokuta
ABEOKUTA, a town of British West Africa in the Egba division of the Yoruba country, S. Nigeria Protectorate. It is situated in 7° 8′ N., 3° 25′ E., on the Ogun river, 64 m. N. of Lagos by railway, or 81 m. by water. Population, approximately 60,000.
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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 1
Abeokuta
ABEOKUTA, a town of British West Africa in the Egba division of the Yoruba country, S. Nigeria Protectorate. It is situated in 7° 8′ N., 3° 25′ E., on the Ogun river, 64 m. N. of Lagos by railway, or 81 m. by water. Population, approximately 60,000.
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