What made the white man so different from the black man?
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What made the white man leave Africa to give the world everything it enjoys today? What made the white man form some of the greatest empires, and basically rule the world for thousand of years? Whats the difference between the great nation of Germany, and the very unsuccessful nations of Africa. My main question is when you look at whites why do you see invention ,democracy, ideas, and conquest for most of the white mans history, but you barely see that with blacks?
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The difference is probably an accident of geography and luck. Jarrod Diamond has a very insightful book that answers that very question. The answer to the question is the tittle of the book, Guns Germs and Steel. We inherited advanced technology because people tend to migrate in the same latitudes where they are adapted to live. Europe inherited much from the middle east and Asia. They inherited cattle, pigs and other animals. That allowed them greater prosperity but it also exposed them to new diseases. When the Europeans claimed new lands, the new diseases decimated the native populations. They inherited steel and that allowed them to overwhelm the weakened populations that they colonized. Mongols conquered much of Europe so it isn't logically something racially superior in whites but because of luck and cultural reasons. The Mongols didn't stay and Europe just benefited from the technology and increased trade with China. China and Japan rejected the new technology to maintain conservative rulers. Europe was engaged in warfare that made them stronger. That is why Europe eventurally colonized most of the world. We write the history and focus on achievements in our history. Africa was several centuries behind technologically because it is harder for people to trade with Africa. They fell behind technologically and that allowed Europeans to dominate them.
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We are genetically 99.9% identical. Most of the differences are cultural in my opinion.
RB
You're trapped in a culture Bubble dude... If this were 2,000BCE or some other time in history your statement wouldn't make sense. We stand on the soldiers of invention going back to the Ancient Egyptians. You know the guys who invented culture - architecture - mathematics - astrology. And guess what they were all colored. Image Google Queen Tiye - she was Egyptian.
sasquache
I think it's great that everyone here has tolerated you and really tried to answer the question, which is complete idiocy to begin with. First, I recommend that you take your head out of your a**. Next, get out of home school and join the rest of your brothers and sisters from Africa (like you and me) in combating the bigotry and stupidity that white, black and even Mongolian populations still offer (the latter was the largest empire in human history...not a white guy among them) Read that book by Jerod Diamond referred to above...Guns Germs and Steel....it will shed some light...great book. Finally, dude........come on. Read a history book.
I'll be Damned
The only thing I see from white mans history is stealing raping killing and controlling. Just about everything was obtained by force
39 weeks preggo
You need to let go of the assumption that white people are so superior and really look into history and human sociology.
CRex
Curiosity. Freedom freedom from envy, freedom of ideas -- and the need to acquire the capital to sustain them. Germany? Great? -- Definitely don't get that question. America is great, though and its greatness flows from its being founded in and standing upon Judeo-Christian moral-integrity and Law and in the principle of individual liberty. Its continuing to be great depends upon its ability to defend and to adhere to its founding tenets. In the sense that the patently less well-intentioned Europeons cannot claim -- and despite that every free man on Earth essentially owes any freedom he enjoys to them, Americans have never "conquered" anyone. Nor have they ever colonized nor subjugated any peoples nor their lands -- and those Europeons, including the Germans, who have ever done so have, in so doing, lost any claim to being moral, have lost their conquests and have lost their every chance at "greatness." And America's "blacks" - people of color - every one of whom is as free as is any man on Earth, are as capable as is any man on Earth of reaching the absolute limit of their talents. Africa's Peoples will also know such success only after their rapacious politicians release them from the bondage of totalitarianism -- and of their almost universal abject corruption. Brian Richard Allen
Brian Richard Allen
Perhaps its because white people are crazy.... like me.
Adam F
I see in many cultures a sense of beauty and satisfaction. The White man seems to be incessantly greedy and insatiable in his lust for power, land, resources, and general swag. The king of the useless invention, the emperor of destroying culture, and the greatest exploiter of nations the world has ever known. Besides stealing, the only noteworthy invention the white man has created is modern Christianity... which is just another vessel for oppression and ignorance. If you count Athenians I suppose you could claim to have invented dude on dude orgies
Savory
IT is very simple:white mans greed and willingness to abuse, and exploit every man and natural resource they encountered. The native americans and africans preserved the land and they lived in harmony with nature. The more the world became westernized the more classes grew and the more people owned something rather than sharing it. This created poverty and it is made the world out of equilibrium.
Jesse
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