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  • Admittedly I don’t know many because I haven’t lived there but from what I know white people that have moved to Africa or Asia they think of their children as from that country.

    But they much more often marry locals. Asians tend to marry within their ethnicity or even their family and tend to think of themselves as that previous nationality.

    How many white people are elected in Asian and African countries? They don’t seem as well received as the locals compared to the west.


  • That how it works on the Aussie working holiday visa too.

    But the government makes you do 3 months farm work to extend your visa. So they encourage because it is so forced. You have all these highley educated workers doing shit work. My Irish friend who’s got a degree worked on a farm in the middle of nowhere and her rent was more than it was in Sydney located between downtown and the beach.

    Pretty regular to up doing work that was below minimum wage and don’t get paid anything for overtime, weekend or late work.


  • What I’ve noticed is there wat more of a Chinese identity than there is for other countries. Usually if a white person moves to another country and has children the children grow up identifying with that country.

    But go to China Town anywhere in the world and it really does look like China, the newspapers are all Chinese newspapers for example (not that nationality in Chinese actual Chinese).

    White people used to have an identity that held. Like Britisher for example. But I doubt any Aussies would say they are a Britisher.

    The only exception is Americans than are actually American and 99% German but have 1% Irish so they tell everyone are Irish (but they actually know nothing about Ireland).



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    8 months ago

    You want the world to be a certain way and pretend it is.

    It just isn’t so. Many many places around the world have issues with borders. If africa knew what’s borders they should have they can go have them.

    Wars have always existed in Africa.

    Zimbabwe and South Africa are horrific failures. They aren’t the only ones. The progress made in those countries was great for a time, then regressed




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    Some Malaysian guy working for the UN in Congo said it not me.

    The problem is tribal regions in Africa are so small that the countries would be tiny. Plus there is a lot of aggression between the different tribes, they have been at war forever but luckily when guns got to the country it was with the whites keeping law and order. They stopped a lot of tribal conflicts m. When the whites left all this tribal conflicts resurfaced and genocides happened but now with guns.

    It’s not like anyone even today and can say what the borders should have been. Sure there are mistakes and there would be an issue with borders however they are divided. But at some point it’s what’s you got and how you got to deal with it.

    Malaysia is a very “divided” country with Chinese, Indians, Maylays but they aren’t a divided country.



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    I read a book about the Congo. One thing that really stood out to me was the Malaysian guy on the UN boat. The only transport in the interior of the Congo is a UN paid gunboat.

    He basically said “this country had colonialism my country had colonialism. They can’t keep using that excuse forever. This country is shit today because of the locals, they need to make it better instead of acting like they have no control over their own country.”

    The best sub Saharan countries were the ones that had the most white influence. WW2, America and Russia kinda fucked up the exist though.







  • So if a pilot is in a failing aeroplane and is coming down for a landing that he knows is almost certainly going to lead to death. Having a more optimistic view of the situation is always bad? What about the people on the plane that are either going to die instantly or live, why be scared beforehand.

    One of my favourite quotes is:

    “The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.”

    And this brings me back to optimism. How many times have you watched a sports game where it was shut out and over then in the dying minutes of the game you see a team win it and the commentators will say something like “no one thought that was possible, except for the men on the pitch and at the end of they day that’s all that matters”

    I can’t believe I’m defending optimism because I’m thr least optimistic person in the world.