I have had debates on here about various issues. One of the debates was about why Africa is always in disarray.
So I talked to a guy from Nigeria and asked him why?
He looked at me and said.
It's simple of why Africa is in bad shape. He said....
Too many difference of opinions of how things should be. He said for example.
In Nigeria. There are over 500 different tribes. With various languages and cultures.
I told him my doctor was from Nigeria to. He said... What is his name.
I told him.
He goes.
Ah... an EBO man with a smile.
I said what's the smile about.
He said.. No offense to your doctor. But we DON'T TRUST EBO guys.
I said why..
He said they are shady and are money hustlers.
I said wow.
He said there are tons of African tribes that HATE EACH other.
Basically he said it's no different than DIE HARD LIBERALS fighting against DIE HARD CONVERSATIVES.
He said.. just imagine if there were 500+ political parties all with various thought processes. He said how much in fighting would there be.
He said. it has nothing to do with intelligence or anything like that.
He said it's all about ego. Such as "Our tribe" is better then your "tribe".
I thought this was interesting.
A person with a decent enough IQ of 85 who grows up in America is able to experience the American education system where they can usually learn to read and write English. They have little appreciation for what it means to grow up in a small African village, speaking a tribal language that lacks vocabulary for math, science, technology, ethics and law.
Most westerners also don’t appreciate what it means to be in a workplace where most of the other people present are sub-literate and can neither read nor write English or their own tribal language.
If your brain is the hardware then the language you learn is the software for cognition. People in Africa are not just lacking the hardware (IQ), many of them are lacking the software for cognition. This lack of cognition doesn’t just relate to academic abilities, it is also related to a persons’s ability to describe, support and develop high trust social relationships outside the tribe. That’s a serious problem.
Most Americans have a kind of reverse Dunning-Kruger. They don’t understand how good they really have it in terms of language, economic environment and education.