[MindBender26]

These people are 100 years away from being ready for self-government.

[blackdog]

They drove out all the white farm operators and replaced them with barefoot idiots who scratch the dirt with a stick and dump their toilet pail on the dirt for fertilizer. Now we need to feed the idiots who engineered the plan.

Diamonds, gold, and uranium. Those poor people would be better off with nothing of value to developed countries. Uramium mining is a worldwide security concern and it's why we are there to observe penis stealing customs. It's like a whole nother planet. Every time I watch the movie "Idiocracy" I think of the continent of Africa.

[Izzy Dunne]

These people are 100 years away from being ready for self-government.

And getting further away all the time.

[MrB]

Not if we invade their countries and convert them to Christianity.

If that happened, I’d give them one or two generations to be ready.

[Cronos]

Well, when a more advanced civilisation meets a one at an earlier stage, it is disastrous for the lesser advanced one --> e.g. imagine if we suddenly come upon ET who's 2000 years ahead of us in tech.

The same thing happened when the advanced Greeks and Romans met the Germanics and Slavics -- the latter's cultures were completely over-run.

During the colonization period post the 15th century, Europe first met Asian countries which were more advanced, but they gradually got on par by the 19th century. North Africa was always closely tied to Europe, but sub-saharan africa in 1810 was at least 1000 to 1500 years behind Europe: Europe in the 300s (at least Germano-Slavic Europe) was still tribal and no nation states -- as was sub-saharan africa in 1810.

South America during the Spanish conquest was 500 years behind.

while, Australian Aborigines, poor guys were still in the stone age -- 3000 to 4000 years behind and they have NOT been able, as a culture, to get over that culture-shock (individuals may and many DO, prosper, I'm talking about the culture / civilisation as a whole).

This does not include slammic "civilisation" which is a counter-culture movement.