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Well, the rape of Nanking was definitely a genocide. And they have (or had) eliminated other races from their island, including the Caucasian Ainu and even Koreans (from whom the Japanese are descended)

sub-saharan Africa's problem is that it had iron or stone age cultures that got shocked by an industrial age culture (the Belgians, French, English etc) -- and decayed, just like we would if a culture 2000 years ahead of us came.

You can't compare Africa to Canada or Australia, that's a non-sequitor. you can compare Africa to all of Europe or all of the Americas -- north and south: it is a multitude of cultures, and a long history (written AND unwritten), quite unlike Canada (pre-history only dating back a few thousand years) or Australia (even with the Aborigines, that's still only 5000 years or so).

Furthermore, remember that most of whom we consider "AFricans" are the Bantu people who lived mostly in the jungles of West Africa until 500 odd years ago when they migrated south and pushed the Bushmen (San and Khoi-Khoi) out of their lands. The North Africans are of course Berbers, more related to Europeans or Middle-Easterners, while East AFricans like the Ethiopians are again closely tied to the Middle East and have THEIR culture dating back Millenia -- the Ethiopians were culturally not affected by Europeans since they were only one age behind (they hadn't entered the industrial age), but people like the Bantu (with the exception of the Senegalese or Gambians who had had a long and continued contact with Arabs and Berbers) were millenia behind. And the San are not even copper-age but are hunter-gatherers, they just probably saw everything as magic (I am being patronising, sorry for that)

"...even Koreans (from whom the Japanese are descended)..."

LOL!, that will stir up the Japanese for a while.

"Well, the rape of Nanking was definitely a genocide. And they have (or had) eliminated other races from their island, including the Caucasian Ainu and even Koreans (from whom the Japanese are descended)"

The Samurai And The Ainu