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"I've raped 53 women. And children of five or six years old."

I have tried for several minutes to respond to this quote. I just can't publicly say what I'd like to see happen to him, at this very moment. I am so mad, disgusted, infuriated!!!!!!!!!

He needs to hear about Hell, but he also needs to be sent there as soon as possible!!!! The movie, "Tears of the Sun" with Bruce Willis keeps coming to mind.

The problem is when a people that are backward meets a "higher civilised" people, the former decay naturally -- either they completely jettison their former "culture" and adopt measures of the superior culture or they decay

Case in point from antiquity: when the Germanics or Slavs or Balts came in contact with Roman culture (later Catholic and Orthodox-Byzantine cultures respectively), the ones who held out like the ruler of Northumberland, lost out. The new Germanics, Slavs and Balts threw out their old "culture" to a large extent such that we hardly know much of pre-Christian Slavic religion or Baltic culture for instance

The cultural power of Rome was too powerful: linguistic, religious, political, cultural, etc.

In the east you can see this in South-East Asia, specifically Indonesia-Malaysia which converted first to Hinduism, then Buddhism, then Islam by missionaries from the cultural super-power of the Indic states (mostly Dravidian)

Post the 1500s, when Europeans first came to India they were civilisationally slightly behind, but that changed by 1775 and the battle of Plassey -- Europe's industrial revolution pushed it ahead of Indias.

Civilisationally, Europe lead India and China in the 1800s, but only slightly, hence no jettison of culture.

In contrast, when Europeans came to the Americas or Australia, the primitive cultures had to decay -- and men became drunks under the pressure of being "losers in the civilisation game".

In Africa we see that in East Africa, along the coast, the people became Arab in all but ethnicity and deeper inland their culture were at the same level as aborigines (with notable exceptions of course in Ghana and possibly Great Zimbabwe) -- the Congo with its terrain did not lead to civilization and hence we had a very primitive people suddenly getting the weapons of civilisation.

The "people" of Congo can be civilized, but not the "peoples" -- meaning that as individuals, if they jettison their older culture completely, they can be civilized (their culture cannot hope to catch up with the rest of the world now, it lags too far behind), but the nations can not.