Reply #13: It Is Dark...Most Americans Are Clueless About Africa

[KharmaTrain]

Look at how people laugh when they see a native tribal dance and how "primitive" these people are. Our lack of understanding of foreign cultures is what's the in dark. Many still have impressions of Africa as some big jungle where people are cooked in pots by scary black people with bones in their noses.

Racist? What about Europeans relations with Africa hasn't been? It's still going on as colonialism has been replaced by the World Bank and resource slavery that keeps many of these countries desolate and dependent on the "west" for their survival.

I think the concept of a "dark continent" is more along the lines of how little we know about the people of Africa.