Clovis Merovingian
Prestige/VIP
Elder
Posts: 2,689
Likes: 1,757
Meta-Ethnicity: Anglo-American
Ethnicity: Deep Southerner
Country: My State and my Region are my country
Region: The Deep South
Location: South Carolina
Ancestry: Gaelic (patrilineal), English, Ulster Scots/Scots Irish, Scottish, German, Swiss German, Swedish, Manx, Finnish, Norman French/Quebecois (distantly), Dutch (distantly)
Taxonomy: Borreby/Alpine/ Nordid mix
Y-DNA: R-S660/R-DF109
mtDNA: T1a1
Politics: Conservative
Religion: Christian
Hero: Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, James K. Polk
Age: 30
Philosophy: I try to find out what is true as best I can.
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Post by Clovis Merovingian on Feb 17, 2018 23:12:37 GMT
Sub Saharan African countries are some of the most underdeveloped, crime ridden, corrupt, and poverty ridden countries in the world. What do you think can be done to fix this? My opinion is that the African countries including the Sahara should unite under one United States of Africa and become a free market on the level of Hong Kong. Capitalism has proven to bring prosperity. As for governance they should adopt Switzerland's form of government.
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Pigy
New Member
I should be studying...
Posts: 7
Likes: 6
Country: South Africa
Politics: Opinionated
Relationship Status: Science is bae
Age: 23 + 1/4
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Post by Pigy on Mar 17, 2018 8:50:20 GMT
I absolutely adore my country. It has its MASSIVE problems but there is so much goodness here for now. It hasn't always been good (especially with what happened in apartheid times) and there is still much wrong but things like nature, culture and variety are rich here. At the moment as a white person things are getting hostile but things will change hopefully for the better. There is a sense of "being" here and never want to give that up. This place makes you tough and makes you appreciate what you have and what you don't. But I suppose life is completely different for those who aren't part of the middle class here, where a full day's wage will earn you about the equivalent of US$10.5. I would like to at least get a chance to travel to see what things are like elsewhere but I think I will always want to return to South Africa. Are you an Afrikaner or... I forgot what they called the English descended white people? Not an Afrikaaner, but I am white; and the inflammatory word for white people is colonialist/colonizer.
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Post by joustos on Mar 19, 2018 21:24:02 GMT
Sub Saharan African countries are some of the most underdeveloped, crime ridden, corrupt, and poverty ridden countries in the world. What do you think can be done to fix this? My opinion is that the African countries including the Sahara should unite under one United States of Africa and become a free market on the level of Hong Kong. Capitalism has proven to bring prosperity. As for governance they should adopt Switzerland's form of government. What they need is the skills to produce -- to do farm work and factory work, but these require the appropriate natural resources (arable land, water or water-production, and already-made tools). Productive work is the only thing that will bring them prosperity. If they are unfit to learn and too lazy to work, no sane person is going to invest money to create production centers in any African country.
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