Manonthestreet
Diamond Member
- May 20, 2014
- 35,335
- 23,856
- 1,945
you know very little history......Yes. European colonialism destroyed almost all of their cultures. We have no way of knowing what they would be like today if they had been left alone.Take a look at Africa...
... and the Middle East...
... are those white people???
The problems they are having is due to what whites have done.
I've worked in sub Saharan Africa, they would be pretty much the same. There are exceptions, such as Botswana, and Kenya (save for the terrorists coming from over the border) but for the most part Africa is a very violent continent where life is cheap.
European colonialism was extremely, horrifically violent. It left a legacy. Not that there wasn't violence in Africa before colonialism, but the level of violence there at that time, before colonialism, was similar to the level of violence at that time around the world, no worse. America was not 'settled' by the Europeans without horrific violence.