Africa, what do you know?

[Ledan]

LOL!!!!
Amazingly Mazty is right... 100% on the mark.
If you have a leaky pipe and need to fix it, you will call the plumber (obviously). He will not arrive. You will call a few weeks later again, and he might come around sometime. When he arrives he will "fix" your leaky pipe. Now, there is no water coming out. Ever.
This happened to my family.
Ghostwise... nope, that's pretty rare actually. It's only in specific places in africa that there is jungle, otherwise it is mostly savannah.
And Scamola, sorry to say but Mazty is actually right

 

[Photon_Man62]

How much does an internet connection cost there?

 

[t3h br0th3r]

what do i know of the Motherland?

i have kin somewhere in the Ivory Coast and Madagascar, i know it is a massive content and i know Palin has no clue about the place.

I also know i don't know nearly enough.

 

[Cairo]

What do people eat where you live? And, if you know, in the surrounding regions?

 

[Ledan]

I'm intrigued by your proposal, and I'd like to take you up on it with a few questions of my own-

1. What is life like living in Africa? I'm pretty sure one's lifestyle is better off than just living in mud huts, and no one's questioning that it's possible to live there, but is it a place where the numbers of the poor, the numbers of the middle class, or the numbers of the upper class are greater? In short, what is the average lifestyle like?

2. How good of a government do you have? Is it mostly democratic, despotistic, communistic, collectivistic, or what? Essentially, what kind of government should a newcomer be expecting?

3. How dangerous is most of the wildlife, and how high of a chance do you have of being seriously in danger because of it? Also, if so, what do you do to avoid said wildlife?

Right,
1. There is barely any middle-class to speak of, and they leave as soon as they can... i can't really speak for the average African, but most of them live in rural areas and towns, those who do live in the city (which is a lot) are poor, but they manage their life. If you move to Zambia, you will be upper-class. You will most probably have a maid, a gardener, guard, and a pool. To us, everything there is cheap, so you will live a 'grander life than in a first world country...

2.The goverment is corrupt. And everyone is okay with it. There are HUGE billboards for a book that tells you about the corruption, and everyone talks about it. So it is deffinetly not totalitarian. It's kinda a wannabe capitalism, a country that failed at it since the copper prices fell and they now have HUGE debts to pay off, with what little money is left after the officials have taken it. It's a different way of thinking there, you accept the fact that the goverment is corrupt, but it's not corrupt in an... evil? way. Nobody gets hurt by the goverment or anything like that.

3. The wildlife problem differs from place to place. In Zambia we had virtually no problem since the animals were in the rural areas. Many African kids have to go to special zoo's to see their first Giraffe. The only problem we had in Zambia was that sometimes the Presidents baboons escaped (apparently he had his own mini-zoo). In Kenya there is a lot more rain forest in the capital, so there is a slightly higher risk. The wildlife is of no danger unless you live outside of the city, which i never did.

 

[Biek]

Could I make a fortune selling fly repellant in africa? I always see images on people with flies on their heads and their not even bothered with removing them.

 

[Pezzer]

If you drop a melon on the ground and come back in ten years there will be a f***ing grove.

Seriously it happened to my mother.

She spent most of her childhood in Botswana.

 

[Ledan]

Cairo,
The staple food (eg. like rice in China, ) is Nshima. It doesn't taste like much, so they have lots of sauces for it. I'm pretty sure that it is made from corn, but i could be wrong. It is really terrible, and whenever we had to eat it on school field trips we used to make dice out of them.

 

[The Infamous Scamola]

Congratulations for actually labelling yourself as a racist.
Did I mention colour once? No. So then why are you brining it up by using the word racist?...
I've more cases where some Africans have been devoid of the logic you would expect in a 6 year old. I'm not being racist, just reciting events that have happened.
If you could please enlighten me as to how that is at all racist, as I would love to know.

You said that Africans (not some) are devoid of logic, based on one incident which you didn't even witness yourself.

 

[Ledan]

Could I make a fortune selling fly repellant in africa? I always see images on people with flies on their heads and their not even bothered with removing them.

Hmmm, dunno. I don't think it would work since there are sooo many flies... besides, people don't really have that much money to spare, and they are used to the flies.

 

[Ledan]

How much does an internet connection cost there?

Well, in Zambia the internet connection we had was by satellite and that for some reason meant that we could only download 4GB per month... which means this: No mmorpg, no torrents, and no downloads...
As for the price... I dunno, not THAT much but like games i expect it to cost more.

 

[The Infamous Scamola]

That isn't racist scamola. That is stereotyping. Considerably different.

Oh that's right, what a silly goose I am.

 

[Biek]

Could I make a fortune selling fly repellant in africa? I always see images on people with flies on their heads and their not even bothered with removing them.

Hmmm, dunno. I don't think it would work since there are sooo many flies... besides, people don't really have that much money to spare, and they are used to the flies.

Oh right! I forgot the have no money! doh! Maybe I can sell them to the red cross so they can distribute it?

I have this infomercial idea forming in my head. I could have Billy Mays demonstrate it by spraying it all over a emaciated African, and when the cloud clears, youll see a happy wel-fed African. (Because finally being rid of those pesky flies cheered him up and encouraged him to get up and hunt.)

I think itll work with house wives all over America.

 

[Ledan]

Congratulations for actually labelling yourself as a racist.
Did I mention colour once? No. So then why are you brining it up by using the word racist?...
I've more cases where some Africans have been devoid of the logic you would expect in a 6 year old. I'm not being racist, just reciting events that have happened.
If you could please enlighten me as to how that is at all racist, as I would love to know.

You said that Africans (not some) are devoid of logic, based on one incident which you didn't even witness yourself.

That isn't racist scamola. That is stereotyping. Considerably different.

Look, Mazty is actually right. I've been in many cases where one would think that they don't have logic, but it's mostly due to their culture. A Zambian will always avoid telling you "no" and making you dissapointed. They try the best to do what you asked them, even if they don't really know how.
But, yes it is stereotyping, and since I've heard as true and weird tales about Americans and first world people, sometimes people just don't think before they act

 

[Ledan]

Isn't racism another way of stereotyping? "White men can't jump", "Black people are stupid" "Women can't play rugby", Sexism, Racism, Countryism(it's not nationalism right), all of them are just ways of generalizing things about a specific group.