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Originally Posted by AChimp
Many of these people still identify strongly with their tribal histories, and are literally programmed to hate the people who live in the neighbouring village, because after all, that's what they've done for as long as anyone can remember. There must be some reason to hate them, because if there wasn't, they wouldn't hate them right?
I've talked to a few guys from Nigeria, and that is seriously the kind of thinking that goes on for many people. Hopefully as more technology is introduced, new forms of communication will open peoples' minds more. Military and humanitarian intervention alone isn't enough to change these people; they have to do it on their own.
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Right, but one step at a time. Satellite dishes that feed global news and culture would be great, but first people need to eat. A lot of these people are going to starve to death this Fall because they hiding from thu8gs instead of farming. The trees that provide the gum we use in candies and soda are being burned for fire wood, so that source of domestic income is getting exhausted for more pragmatic reasons.
Technology would be nice, breaking down bariers would be nice, but soon they'll take the Middle Eastern route and start hating us more than they hate each other. This is a condition of hunger and poverty, not necessarily "old tribal lines," or whatever. I know some Nigerians as well, but they're all upper-class and lived like royalty. They don't give a shit about which tribe hates the other, just like the lower-classes in
every country often tend to believe very contrived, misinformed things.
Anyway, I guess my point was work on AIDS, work on starvation, and work basic matters of infrastructure, and guns will become less necessary. Right now, an old AK-47 means a meal and some stability for a young African male in many parts of the continent. Let's start there....
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