"China's New Slave Empire?"
LOL, more like "The Daily Mail's weekly moan about how the non-whites in the world don't want us meddling in their daily lives anymore, and are
creating economic opportunities for themselves with out us there to exploit them instead, whaaaaa!"
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Loam, I take no issue with you, but i am concerned with your main source, the Daily Mail. (This topic sharing the same title as that article.)
IIMHO, The Daily Mail is not a credible source.
Here is an experiment performed by a man, who gave up all other news sources, except for the Daily Mail, for an extended period of time. The results
will not surprise you
, i guarantee it
:
My Daily Mail hell
Keep reading 'The Daily Mail', and you'll eventually come to believe that the sky is falling.
These people at the Daily Mail are the guys that will print anything, and i mean ANYTHING, for the sake of their own financial benefit, and then pass
it off as "real news", as long as it appears to be 'believable'--that is, facts and sources can not be easily traces and/or checked. The term
'alarmist' is too far from being an understatement when it comes to describing them. The daily mail is very well known for being anti-chinese,
anti-black, anti-muslim...well, basically anti-anybody-who's-not-white conservative rag in the UK which no one outside of the right wing spectrum
takes seriously.
Besides that my overall sentiment on this stands.
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Try this: google the terms "China Africa" then explore the results. I promise you, 99.9% of the alarmists who are oh-so-very concerned(pfft, yeah
right :@@
about the fate of Africa and Africans are on the so called "conservative" side; rich white men who see Africa as their own personal
playground, the Africans as their personal economic slaves, and the Chinese trying to set up shop in "their" backyard. The Daily Mail falls squarely
into this camp. They don't give a s... about those "poor, defenseless" Africans who are at the mercy of the "bloodthirsty ruthless, animals" also
known as the Chinese, they're just angry and jealous that the Chinese are actually making headway, where their paternalistic mindset in dealing with
Africans has failed completely. Not only that, they are absolutely scared sh..less, when they realize that Africans now have the potential to see the
worthlessness in dealing with Europe and Europeans, and that they may turn their economic interests toward the east and South, for Sino-African, and
Latin-African economic relationships instead.
It amazes me how many people here disregard the hundreds of years of history of what the
CONTINENT** has been through, and even go so
far as to deny Europe's hand in it, placing the blame soles on the Africans themselves. Even more egregious is the fact that some people will even
say that Europe's involvement in Africa BETTERED the state of the continent when common sense and historical analysis clearly show otherwise.
To those in the so-called "Enlightened West" who think everything about the African continent is nothing but destruction, suffering, and death, I
ask you to, please, put the cheeseburgers down, turn off the TV, go outside, and get a clue. Yes, the continent of Africa is still staggering even
after it seems that the rest of the world has moved on. But even as it stands, even as bad as it is, things tend to get better when the west is not
covertly and underhandedly involved.
Rwanda, which was once home to one of the worst genocides of last decade, thanks to the political sabotage of the French. Now, while the country
obviously still has its issues, it is now seeing some economic and political upturns, with a good degree of success:
LA Times
Women Play key role in...
Most Rwandans know that the French were complicit with what happened in their country, even though France deny this. Rwanda is now almost completely
anti-French, and seem to be doing a hell of a lot better without them.
Botswana, another black African country that the west ignore when talking about the doom and gloom that befall those 'inferior' Africans, seem to be
doing quite well for themselves, without the West's interference:
Botswana
Angola is a country once marred by 25 years of civil war, mostly due to the native population getting tired of being crushed underfoot by the
Europeans, and revolting against them. Even though many of the population are still poor because of the civil war, the country overall looks to be
getting their economy back on track:
Angola's economic boom
Ghana, is a relatively stable, peaceful, and successful country in west Africa, yet, you'll never hear about them when the West talks about those
'inferior' Africans:
Ghana
Nigeria we hear about a lot, especially when it comes to the delta region strife, and corruption. What you don't hear is that the Nigerians are the
only African country to fully pay off their Paris Club debt, that they have some of the best successes of eradicating corruption from the highest
levels of their government, and that their economy is growing monstrously fast. Currently Nigeria, is America's largest African trading partner:
Nigeria
Rome wasn't built in a day. African economies won't be either.
So to all those, especially in America, who've written off an entirely diverse continent such as Africa as a basket case, my advice to you is keep
writing. With the way the US economy is currently going, an election which could possibly put another neo-con in the white house, food and fuel prices
rising, and two wars still being fought in the mid-east, I don't see why anyone's focus should be on what the Chinese and Africans are doing.
**The US education system is supposed to be one of the best in the world, and yet, there are still some who classify Africa as a country. shame.
perhaps that bailout money could have been used to buy people some maps so that people can look up places such as the Iraq and the South Africa to
better the futures of their children.
:lo
[edit on 30-9-2008 by karby]
