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Caucasians at one time or another colonized most of Africa (by boat, not through the Sahara) yet they are 1% of the population there. America was also a colony yet Caucasians are 75% of the population here. What was the difference?

America was colonized by 1600. The native Americans died mostly because they were not immune to the diseases brought across by the Eurasians.
In Africa, the entire continent was colonized only in the 1800s. There was already a substantial population there. The colonies here were not as places for people to stay but as trasure troves for the colonial powers. European nations made billions out of African gold, diamonds, pelts etc.
Africa was never meant to be a place for Europeans to settle down -- the climate was too harsh and there was already a substantial population as compared to the Americas or Australia.

In Africa, the entire continent was colonized only in the 1800s. There was already a substantial population there.

There is already a substantial population here in America but that doesn't stop millions of people from coming here. I think people go to places because it is a better place to live than where they lived before. And one of the things that make a place is the kind of people who live there.

You said :Caucasians at one time or another colonized most of Africa (by boat, not through the Sahara) yet they are 1% of the population there. America was also a colony yet Caucasians are 75% of the population here. What was the difference?
To which I replied < font color = blue> In Africa, the entire continent was colonized only in the 1800s. There was already a substantial population there. . Then you said :
There is already a substantial population here in America but that doesn't stop millions of people from coming here. I think people go to places because it is a better place to live than where they lived before. And one of the things that make a place is the kind of people who live there. You are usign wrong comparisons AGAIN.

We're talking about colonising in the 1800s in the time of Empires and national will behind colonising. When the Europeans came to the Americas they had the entire weight of their goverments behind them, actively looking for new land for their people not trade. Africa was KNOWN to European states right from the time of Carthage and the Phoenicians. Europeans went to Arfica with the express aim of TRADE, got that TRADE, makign money. They came to the Americas to create Empires to get imperial land, not just to strip the country of it's wealth and leave. The only exception to this was the Boers.

Furthermore, where do you get the statistics to say: Caucasians at one time or another colonized most of Africa (by boat, not through the Sahara) yet they are 1% of the population there. ? huh? Africa's population == 700 million. Population of South Africa = 42 million (ww.cia.gov) white 13.6 % = 5.712 million. Then, in the rest of SUB-SAHARAN africa, (Zimbabwe, Botswqana, Namibia etc.) probably another million. THen, NORTH AFRICA, ARABs, BErbers etc. All CAUCASIANS. Egypt itself has 74 million people. Plus you've got the numerous Indians all over Africa as that continents' merchant class. So we put the number of caucasians at a conservative 120 million -- that's nearly 20% of the population of Africa, so nearly 20% of Africa is CAUCASIAN in population and in the case of North Africa have been so for thousands of years