Zimbabwe to use gold coins as tender to reduce use of US dollars
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If we are being brutally honest the average intelligence across the continent is near the level of retardation.
IQ is a testing process that is slanted to a particular type of thought process. There are ethnic differences in how minds work, different strengths and weaknesses are present in different ethnic brain structures. The IQ is a western thought process analysis that deals with a certain way of thinking. Orientals typically have a more structured and analytic way of seeing and processing information, the Occidentals are more innovative and explorative. I do not have enough data on African processes to determine their method reasoning, but I have no doubt that it is different. Not better or worse, but different. We have all been seeing things from a particular lens that is biased by our ethnicity derived culture. The end product is that everyone brings different resources and processes to the table. If we recognize and develop these different methodologies we can maximize the human potential. Diversity is a strength to maximize potential, but it can also be used as a weapon to sow discord. If you think that Africans are inferior due to the state of the continent, please see my above post as to why all the chaos has been going on for centuries. It isn't an accident. Western influence in Africa is designed to keep them from progressing. Africa has massive amounts of natural resources that would make it extremely wealthy and powerful. Instead those resources are taken and making some folks that same wealth. Think it is purely coincidental?
Lol...
Ok smarty.
Why dontcha do a little research on:
"IQ levels needed to attain X."
It will fucking open your eyes to everything. Might even 'crystallize' some thoughts.
Historically, several of the most innovative and brilliant minds have failed miserably in IQ tests. Einstein was considered barely functional and could not carry out some fairly simple functions that most "normal" people could easily perform. Nikola Tesla had abnormal sensory issues and anti-social behaviors. Eccentric thought processes do not conform to conventional patterns that are standardized to evaluate intellect. I'm afraid that many of the societal norms that have been established are constructed around a fairly narrow perspective. Problem solving and environmental awareness is more highly developed in primitive cultures, as noted in studies perform in polynesian island natives. Body language is highly developed in many primitive societies that are uncommon in our advanced society. We don't value these aspects of intellect and do not quantify them. There are many factors to intelligence. My point is that we use an IQ test to put people into a category. The people that created this test had a specific point of view and a particular bias toward specific attributes. There are people that cannot read, but are successful in many areas, do you consider that they are morons because they cannot perform an IQ test? I'm not saying that the IQ test has no value, I am merely pointing out that it is not all inclusive of all forms of intelligence.
Yes, you are right. The continent is packed with a billion Einsteins and Teslas.
You haven't spent a lot of time in Africa.
No, not a lot. Only been to two countries. Both poor as hell. Djibouti and Tunisia. What I did find were people doing things that we take for granted with junk and scrap, that I would have never imagined or thought possible. Most of Djibouti chews on a mildly narcotic plant root, but if I was born there and lived there, it would be depressing as hell. Tunisia was a bit more advanced, but they actually have resources, whereas Djibouti has nothing except one port. No other resources. About the saddest place I have ever seen.
I haven't been to Mediterranean Africa, but travelled through Senegal, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Benin, Ethiopia, Zambia, South Africa, and Namibia. I only spent 15 years on cooperative projects throughout the continent and admit this is only a tiny snapshot in time. We can talk geopolitical, cultural, tribal and geographic reasons for the socioeconomic status of Africa all day long, but the only semi-advanced infrastructure I saw over the course of 15 years is the result of foreign aid and foreign investment. Most of the neocolonial resources have long been overgrown and are in disrepair or have been nationalized and require continuing aid input to maintain operations.
I loved the time I spent throughout Africa and I met some amazing people. I got to work with their top scientists in my discipline, but spent more time out in the rural, mud hut regions. Regardless of the educational level, I was forever dumbfounded by the utter inability of most of the people to discern cause and effect, actions and consequences. Definitely not an IQ measure, but more of an inability to work toward medium and long term goals that THEY defined as important.
Introduction of gold coins might actually help adjust that seeming lack of delayed gratification behavior, yet ironically, the gold standard is primarily a European based construct.
Lol. Ah it’s the IQ argument again. What’s your IQ dude?
You haven't spent much time in Africa or you would know what I refer to.
Yes. Africa is a shit hole. Because it has been invaded countless times throughout history.
It's considered to be the oldest place on earth. Some people believe it's the home base for humanity.
Who knows how many people have come in there? Stole all the resources.
Then rewrote history as they see fit.
What you see now is the AFTERMATH of constant invasion dude. Do you know how many natural resources they have?
Much of Africa is stagnant for a variety of reasons but not for those parroted on PBS. There are pockets of rich resources and those still attract foreign investment because there is no local industry or ability to extract, transport, and refine those resources.
Much of the continent has poor soils and irregular seasonal rainfall. Most of the continent is land locked without a vast river system. Where there are rivers they become garbage laden toilets in addition to the main source of drinking water. Sewage systems and waste disposal and compartmentalization systems are almost non-existent.
Most of the continent is incapable of developing an effective food production and distribution system. This is a recurring, 100% internal problem despite 50 years and more of foreign technical aid to improve production, processing, storage and transportation.
Their political systems make ours look like heaven. All the way up and down the chain, no one has any real power to effect change so every thing becomes an opportunity for graft. The concept of rights and systems of property and law are nebulous because tribal customs have more real influence in society than colonial institutions. There is no safety net. You are truly "on your own".
Most companies I dealt with see Africa as a huge untapped consumer market. The main problem is that there is so little ANYTHING to base functioning economies off of that it is difficult to develop a capitalist consumer base. Few desirable resources. Ineffective transportation and distribution systems. A poor uneducated population. Barely functioning legal systems. These are not post-colonial problems.