I lived in Rhodesia for a few years late 60's early 70's I went back there in 2002 . What was left was a hollowed out version of what had been built . The buildings still stood , though dilapidated , but the life was gone , tribalism had come back with a vengeance . This is Africa, always was , always will be .
Africa seems to have reached an equilibrium state before the coming of Europeans. It is simply returning to it. There will be great suffering in the process. Europe itself will not be immune from it.
I share your sentiments. And being of South African birrh. I'm sorry to say, the same can be said about that country. Simon views on the topics he talks about are given with logical and honest facts. He is a man who possess a lot of wisdom. If, only our Houses of Parliament had MP's like him running the country on our behalf.
I lived and worked in 6 African countries from1969 for 30 years. I was in Zambia from 1972 to 75 at Magoye research station which is between Mazabuka and Livingstone. A friend and I would go fishing on the Kafue river at weekends. On on such sortie I hooked a local fishing net which I noticed had a mesh size of less than 1cm square. I took a sample to show the local fisheries officer in Mazabuka. His reaction was to shout at me to mind my own business and Zambia would do what it liked with its resources! I learned later that during colonialism the legal net size was 4in square (100mm) for reasons of conversation. Story 2 On the road from the copper belt down to Livingstone there was regular traffic in the form of Kenworth heavy trucks transporting massive copper ingots to the border with Rhodesia. The copper was sold for hard cash which disappeared into fat cat pockets. The UN and other development agencies advised the Zambian government to set up copper good manufacturing industries rather than selling the raw copper. The response was the same as the one I got from the fisheries officer! Of course later they were buying their own copper back in the form of copper goods and wondering why the country is not making any money from its copper mines.
The mega-corruption seems to be ubiquitous all across Africa. Mugabe had billions stashed away out of Zimbabwe. Mobutu had billions stashed away out of then-Zaire. Dos Santos had billions stashed away out of Angola (I was told he was getting a dollar on every barrel of oil exported!). Some of the leaders of now-independent former French colonies had or have billions stashed away out of their respective countries. One could go on and on. The reality, a reality the excusers and complainers here and elsewhere just refuse to admit, is that Africa is immensely rich in natural resources but that wealth is squandered through inefficiency and indolence or simply stolen through mega-corruption. The corruption is systemic, everyone is at it at every level of society, the civil servants whose signature is required on the simplest of documents, the police seeking to extract money under threat of spurious fines, the customs to approve imports or exports, people in business abusing their positions, everyone thinking they are individually smartly corrupt but, of course, then blaming whomever, particularly the Wicked West, but never, never ever themselves for the complete mess they themselves have created.
@@girlgirl4548 Further to my previous message. I returned to Zambia in 1992 as part of a UN evaluation mission. I was able to vist with some of my old African friends in Magoye. Over a beer one evening I asked "So how is Zambia after 25+ independence?" The response was silence as all three starred into their beer mugs. One old chap looked up at me "Harold, these people (the government) are no good!" Then, "When is Queeny Elizibet coming back?" followed by a cheeky smile.
@@haroldpearson6025 Yes, I believe there was an opinion poll among Zimbabweans decades after independence and they selected Ian Smith as having been their best leader. Says it all, really.
@@gertrudekamyaothieno7934 I lived and worked in Africa for 30 years, was married to an African for 20 years, I know the difference. My Zambian friends had lived many years under colonial administration, they also knew the difference.
Few years back my elderly parents and I visited one of their old friends whose grand daughter had just come back from Kenya after doing a year or so there linked to her university course. While she was there she met an elderly Kenyan native (eighty-plus) and they got talking. She commented he must have seen great changes in the country over his lifetime and asked him what he thought of it all. He thought for a few seconds and then took a careful look around to see who was nearby and within earshot. Once satisfied he leaned forward and said quietly "It was a damn sight better place when the whites were running it."
That IS sad; especially being Black Africans who came to the USA as 'free people' are arguably the most successful 'race/ethnicity'. So much for 'White racism' being the culprit.
I am a black man and it's sad to admit that we have played victim since colonial times. We do not admit our shortcomings and place the blame on the white man or the government.
I still have a colour postcard a friend of my grandmother's sent her when she was on holiday in Rhodesia in 1964. She remarks that 'this is a wonderful country- truly Heaven on earth. If I were 30 years younger I would move here.' She would have been in her early 70s then, so probably died before she her optimism was proved disastrously wrong.
I visited a friend In Zimbabwe in 1986. Then, it was still a beautiful country. The ZANU Party had not got around to wrecking the country. They needed a little more time.
@@luckylukewalker9834 probably so but zanu pfs progress was certain! You would of arrived during the Genocide known as the gukurahundi massacre where tens of thousands of innocent civilians were massacred in matabeleland
Visited Zimbabwe in 1986. A beautiful country even then. The physical assets built up during white rule were still intact. The pillaging by the government hadn’t got into its stride until later years.
I was born, bred and buttered in Durban and grew up fluent in 3 languages, including Zulu, which I still speak to this day. Another markedly different trait of the typical African was his improvidence! When faced with perfectly edible leftovers, for example, all our black pupils would habitually consign them to the dustbin! Times journalist, Matthew Parris grew up in Malawi and he recalled the "crushing passivity of the people's mindset.)
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Admire Kashiri I recommend you vacate this channel and go where you are welcome. There are some good Woke pre-school channels these days for you to enjoy.
Your analysis is spot on. I spent 20 years in South Africa and a couple of years in Ghana and Kenya. Particularly in South Africa the need for instant gratification and lack of planning for the future has seen the infrastructure rot to a terrible state, the state capture of institutions based on how much I can make from them now, and a complete failure to invest in the future of the country.
I heard that the problem with agriculture under Mugabe was that his government seized the land from skilled, experienced farmers, gave the land not to Zimbabwean farmers, but to his own cronies, who had no idea how to farm. Difficulty with delayed gratification may have been part of the problem, but sheer incompetence was probably the main problem.
If one believed that the white man's farm would just naturally generate money for the farmer and that by displacing the farmer that money would now flow to whoever now occupied the farm, then the fact that money didn't just flow would be incomprehensible because it did for the white farmer. The fact that the farm had to be labored over and managed went completely by the new "owners" who just wanted the rewards and did not imagine that they would have to do a lot of hard work to get those rewards.
diffrence between power that follows from ones soul desire for competence and the incompetence that follows one whos only desire is power, something like that
It appears History Debunked has Africa on his mind a lot. I secretly believe him and Bill Gates go there together. I also believe he was involved in writing the United Nations report which says Africa will have massive growth to end the 21st century. Just my thoughts.
Strangely, I have also looked at this issue in Africa (and elsewhere too) and came to the same conclusion - planning for the future is dismally lacking in Africa. Its all about today(instant gratification) and not worry about tomorrow. When money flows, go buy a BMW! And that farm tractor oil change, well..........it can wait till next season!
A common thread that runs throughout all 'successful' cultures, regardless of race/skin color, etc; being frugal, sobriety, belief in education/skilled trades, being humble as in letting small 'disses' go, etc.
The population is 6 times what it was in the 1950's thanks to Fleming and the missionaries, how can that ever succeed. Chinese have taken on the white mans role in Africa, compare their compassion in due course. Although born in Rhodesia, am also called a white Rhodesian colonialist. Voted with my feet. I think most parts of Europe will be 3rd world within 50 years, I have seen the symptoms before.
@@Skandalos what's in the way for making babies like that, is the western culture and how they treat women. when you let females go for careers and have cats all their lives, no babies will be born. too much freedom leads to no people... strange?
I knew a Rhodesian named Gary in 1976 at church summer camp here in the states. He was 18 and here to defer the draft a year. I've thought about him ever after. I wish I was more adult at the time! There are so many questions I'd love to ask him, if he's still alive.
Your insights are very refreshing. As a Zimbabwean member of the "born-free" generation, I think it's important to discuss these things. And it's not racist to say the things you've said. In fact, I know *many* Black Zimbabweans of all ages who echo your thoughts exactly.
There were a number of Blacks serving in the Rhodesian Army trying to PREVENT what has happened there! Mugabe should be HANGED for crimes against Humanity!
I used to work with a black Zimbabwean lady, who sometimes went back there to visit relatives. In the end when she came back complaining about how bad things had become there under Mugabe I asked her if some black Zimbabweans said things had been better under Ian Smith's white supremacist Rhodesian regime and she replied 'Of course' as though it was so obvious she was surprised I needed to ask
I lived for some time in one country (which I will not name) where the response of big businesses to big problems (which were entirely of their own making) was instantly to send for "the white man" to sort them out, at least until the next cock-up.
i was out in Zimbabwe visiting relatives & at a braii met a couple of black miners. They were sick of what Mugabe had done to the country in just 5 years. That day there Income Tax went up to around 62% of income from 30%. They wished that Ian Smith was still in charge.
@Katherine Sparkes I didn't know that but shall try to find out more about Ian Smith's regime to see if I have accepted a liberal media narrative unquestioningly. (I was a teenager when Smith gave up power following a guerrilla war and remember it being in the news but my parents were liberal and the newspaper they took, which is therefore the one I was most likely to read, was the Guardian, so I may have mainly got one side of the story). Are there any books, websites or documentaries you would recommend on this subject?
We can be so unsophisticated in white Southern African when we live so isolated and in fear. Please learn to take it with a tablespoon of salt when you hear a black person whose name you hardly know, making a comment on request about such issues as comparing South Africa/ Zimbabwe then and now, (when they hardly know you to be able to trust you) with even their own subjective truth. We have been so dehumanized by your imposing..... everything .....when we have so .....nothing.... that we have learned to tell you what you want to hear.... (not every one of us obviously ). Remember Rev "Disable" Mizorewa in Zimbabwe and the Bantustan leaders in South Africa? See how they all vanished? This is how white expectations of who we should be for them ( not of all whites) made them leaders. To be a good black person to many I found in this comment section is to repeat to you as white, a world view about truth that aligns itself with your view which we gladly oblige with many a time for our perceived survival. You are sometimes still wrongly perceived to be that all important.... even intimidating. Until we discover ourselves through education to understand through knowledge.... and reduce our beliefs you brainwashed us with including your religious beliefs that's mentally crippled our people to want to be victims... many a time .... but also not all...Amen
@Katherine Sparkes He said that speech when he realised the people wanted there country back and would do so at all costs. Hahahahahahaha. He was a racist fool he killed/bombed, segregated and inhumanly mistreated them. He was a racist monster that is in hell.
@@kznjonno602 ... and Mandela and his cronies are still worshiped. They put the clock but to the time when the African chief treated his land and people as personal chattels.
@@HistoryDebunkedsimonwebb I think your ideas would be more complete if you read E Michael Jones' books, especially The Slaughter of Cities - wherein lies the answer to why you use the word "whites," I think, to describe a wide variety of Europeans & their unique cultures. It is a bit of a trick...
Per capita, there was a far more robust African middle class than their equivalents in South Africa. If you think the whites 'lucked out' then so did the African middle class. So much for liberation.
@Mfalme Mtukutu For the sake of brevity, Mfalme, but were one to write a dissertation on the collapse of the economy, then one would of course talk about the lay-offs at Risco, or the collapse of the large chemicall/fertiliser works in KweKwe, the rural workers, the office workers, employees everywhere. Once the government becomes diseased, then the rest of the body begins to decay. An ex Kwekwe-ite.
There is something significant that Rhodesia was named after a great, if flawed empire builder, and Zimbabwe was named after a heap of ruins. Once tourists visited Rhodesia to see the ruins of Zimbabwe, whereas now they visit Zimbabwe to see the ruins of Rhodesia.
@malcolmtas5601, Zimbabwe is a black African name from the shona language. Rhodesia is a white European name from the criminal English. The ruins you are mocking were once claimed by lying whites as being built by whites and not blacks, listen we don't give a hoots what you say. We defeated the white invaders and hot our black land back. There is no sane black who would ever agree to a white man ruling us again. NEVER. I Stay in your Europe and leave Zimbabwe alone. Go and build your dream country elsewhere.
I watch charity appeals on TV showing poor little children walking 8 miles to get a drink of dirty water and my heart bleeds for the poverty in Africa. Yet I cannot bring myself to donate anything. Experience has taught me that most of the money collected doesn't get to the needy.. I remember years ago Millions of pounds was given to Kenya to ease the dreadful flooding they endured. Of the money collected, first in line was the charity itself to pay for all of its costs and the CEO of course, when the money arrived in Kenya, most was used to build an enormous wall all around the Presidential Palace. I worked In Paris for some months and made friends with some other Brits working for a well known charity. They explained how African Chiefs were invited to Paris, wined and dined, chauffeur driven limousines were available, accommodation in swank hotels and numerous ladies provided for entertainment. I vowed then never to buy their Christmas cards again. Only local charities receive my meagre gifts these days. I also wonder how humans have been living in Africa for more than 100,000 years and still can't arrange for villages to be built next to running water. I also worked in Pakistan for the World Bank and saw first hand how the elite grab the money and leave the needy to go without - Some wise man once said Rich countries collect money from their Poor people, to give to the Rich people in Poor countries.. !!!
I read in the news "Zimbabwe to return land seized from foreign farmers" - Seems like Zimbabwe is openly admitting that it is a mistake to demand instant gratification at the expense of long term suffering.
No rhodesia is gone but those business that want to do business in the country including agriculture are welcome. For any serious agriculture food producer Zimbabwe is a great place to invest. But those sanctions might be a issue. But internal consumption might still make the investment profitable for local producers.
The food will go but I hope there is no slaughter, the real problem is not planning for the future, our historian is too kind in putting reason to the problems in that continent in particular sub-Sahara- it is my view that the real problem is grand theft at a government level followed by a lot of cronyism.
@@AdrianHepburn-vz9yr You are quite right and the sad thing is that during the 'Independence War' Rhodesia was still the bread basket of Southern Africa and did supply goods to the neighbors trying to undermine them - yet no lesson learned.
@Michelle Zimbabwe already started accepting the white farmers back. There is a cute video of an Zimbabwean community cheering and hugging them. Some years ago a south African lady made a very insightful documentary on the downfall of Zimbabwe. It was one of the most depressing things I have seen. The sadness and suffering of the people, of the children, of the hopelessness were beyond my imagination.
I grew up in Rhodesia and now live in South Africa. This is spot-on. S.A.'s electricity supply company, ESKOM, is now buckling under the strain of power overload because the old power stations were never upgraded and new ones were never built, whilst more and more people were hooked up to the grid. Blackouts are now the order of the day.
Name an African country where European colonization made life worse for the average person. For sure many atrocities were committed by the colonizers. But on the balance, if you look at life expectancy, education level, general living standards, etc, life was vastly improved everywhere in Africa, thanks to Europeans.
@@kenny39able Not really. Just a European who is damn tired of the demonization of Europeans. Facts, not feelings, should guide what we think about Africa. Was Britain better off by being colonized by the Roman Empire? Of course it was.
Straight up; the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Belgians massacred 10 million people; half the population and didn’t build or leave any lasting infrastructure or institutions to run or even connect the country on. One of the major problems of African states is they only exported base products such as agriculture or minerals and their systems were designed for the distraction and export of said materials. Colonial Empires did not invest in improving the standards of black Africans, the only benefit they received (if they were being paid anything at all) was that small amount of money allowed them to access whatever limited products that were available in the european capitalist system. But even this doesn’t hold true as this system wasn’t available in rural areas that dominated much of the countryside.
it's very revealing. The Chinese foreman cannot get his head around the fact that the moment the white man left, the railways started getting dismantled, undoing decades of progress overnight.
@IM HO Those colour scarf the demonrats were wearing when they were kneeling were the colours of the Ashanti tribe 1 of the biggest slave trading tribes in West Africa, oh the irony.
@alltimebestatit @alltimebestatit same could be said about the Chi nese and g unpowder. Yet Eur opeans used the wh eel and gun powder to con quer the w orld and if it wasn't for the w orld wars sta rted and fini shed by Europ eans then they would probably s till rul e the wo rld. If these other civilis ations were so clever then they should have capit alised on it instead. Why should we fe el guil ty for our an ce stors having a br ain bet ween their ears?
You mean how in Japan companies plan for 20 years from now...i always find it amusing that this channel continually harps on about blacks this and that..it studiously avoids Orientals as in things like IQ, work ethic and planning they are streets ahead of the UK
@@benjaminsnowden8626 though i see other people calling them drones and insect like..if someone talks like a racist, walks like racist, then they are a racist (referring in this case to people calling Asians insects and drones)
I have never been to Zimbabwe, but I have known two people who lived and worked there under white rule. What most people find incomprehensible, is that a country with so many advantages has ended up in a ruinous state. It is somewhat ironic that africans seemingly now want to come and live in majority white countries, after achieving independence from the evils of white colonialism.
@@Rich-jk8ev Russia gave up Marxism thirty years age. The Marxist revolutionaries brought ruin and murder on the country, as they have done wherever they have had power. Marxism is snake oil economics driven by anger.
@@Rich-jk8ev What is your point? There are a lot of clever Russians. Under Marxism the Russians managed to cause a famine in the most fertile part of the country. The most intelligent people in the world, the Chinese, starved under their Marxist regime. The Russians are still having to clear up the damage left by Marxist government. Marxism will guarantee failure in any circumstances. Pointing to the case of Rhodesia - and South Africa is going down the same road - proves nothing much about the people there. When people lack the basics, putting people into space indicates a warp sense of priorities.
All you say, Mr Webb, is demonstrably true. I saw for myself in Zimbabwe, the collapse of a remarkably vibrant and functional state under the pre independence Rhodesian government into the failed state and economic collapse after a few years of the egregious Mugabe regime. And consider this: the Rhodesian dollar at the time of "independence" was worth 2 $US. After a couple of decades of corrupt and incompetent rule, the government was forced to abandon the Zimbabwe $ after its 100 trillion bank note was worth a paltry few US$$. All this was predictable when the British Government forced P.M. Ian Smith to relinquish power to Marxist Mugabe and his thugs.
Now come on, not planning for the future and putting things aside for the future? I think you will find that Mugabe and his family and friends were very good at putting stuff away for their future.
Very well explained, planning for the future is a lesson even the so called prosperous countries would do well to remember! Be prepared for hard times.
I worked as a pilot for a Swiss man who had installed 4 enormous wells in Senegal as part of a Euorpean aid program. Within a year of completion, only one was operational. He was called in to fix it, and he discovered that the Africans there had stolen and sold all the spare parts on the black market...even disassembling the pumps to sell them. These people will never prosper without the aid of Asia, Europe or NA. They were a stone age civilization 2000 years after everyone else on the planet...
Of course! Saving up for your children and your retirement so as not to be a burden on others, paying your own way, paying your taxes, respecting the property rights of others, respecting law and authority.....all ........."white supremacist", innit? One of the slogans of BLM as they sack cities in the US is actually "Looting is Justice". In a nutshell, out of their own mouths!
During the summer the ant works all day and night bringing in supplies for the winter, and he prepares his home to keep him warm during the cold months ahead. Mean while, the grasshopper hops and sings, eats all the grass he wants and procreates.
Come winter, it gets bitterly cold and the grass dies. The ant is well fed and warm in his house, but the grasshopper has not prepared for the winter, so he dies, leaving a whole horde of little grasshoppers without food or shelter.
The moral of the story is that one should work hard to ensure that you can take care of yourself.
The African Version.
The first part of this story is the same, but because it now happens in Africa, there are a few complications of course.
The starving offspring of the grasshopper demanded to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed, while next door they are living in terrible conditions without food and proper clothing.
A TV crew promptly shows up and broadcasts footage of the poor grasshoppers, contrasting this with footage of the ant, snug in his comfortable home with a pantry full of food. The public in the neighbouring fields are stunned at what they see. How can it be, in this beautiful field, that the poor grasshoppers are allowed to suffer so, while the ant lives in the lap of luxury?
In the blink of an eye, the AGU (African Grasshopper's Union ) is formed. They charge the ant with "species bias" and claim that grasshoppers are the victims of 30 million years of green oppression. They stage a protest in front of the ant's house and trash the street. When interviewed by the TV crews, they state that if their demands are not met, they will be forced into a life of crime. Just for practice, they loot the TV crew's luggage and hijack their van.
The TRC (Take & Redistribute Commission) justifies their behaviour by saying that this is the legacy of the ant's discrimination and oppression of the grasshoppers. They demand that the ant apologises to the grasshoppers for what he has done, and that he makes amends for all the other ants in history that have done the same thing to grasshoppers. PAGAD (People Against Grasshopper Abuse & Distress) states that they are starting a holy war against ants.
The President appears on the 8 o'clock news and says that he will do everything he can for the grasshoppers that have been denied the prosperity they deserve by those who have benefited unfairly during the summer.
The government drafts the EEGAD (Economic Equity for Greens and Disadvantaged) act, retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to employ a proportionate number of green insects, and, having nothing left to pay his back taxes, his home is confiscated by the government for redistribution. The story ends as we see the grasshoppers finishing off the last of the ant's food while living in their new government house (Which just happens to be the ant's old house) and also the house ends up crumbling down around them because they are too lazy and incompetent to maintain it. Showing on the TV (which a grasshopper and a couple of friends stole from another ant), the President is standing before a group of wildly singing and dancing grasshoppers, announcing that a new era of "equality" has dawned on the field. The ant, meanwhile, is not allowed to work because he has historically benefited from the field. In his place, ten grasshoppers, who only work two hours a day, steal half of what they actually harvest. When winter comes again and not enough food has been harvested, they strike and demand a 150% increase in their wages so that they can buy more food, which now has to be imported because the grasshoppers were not productive enough to produce enough food.
The ant packs his things and migrates to another field whilst his other mates have moved even further away, where they start highly successful food companies again and becomes a millionaires by selling food to the grasshoppers in the field from where they came.
Help I'm A Rock yeah...it's a hard thing to believe...that people will hate you from trying to help them. I've encountered this when trying to volunteer in poor black communities in the USA.
@@jerushieful It is an allegorical tale for South Africa, only this happens in real life. Right now the government is preparing to take farms - without any payment - from a "certain group" to give to "another group". QED!
Visited Zimbabwe in 2001. I was shocked, how parts of rural (Mount Darwin area) population appeared malnourished in a country that was clearly fertile. How many chose to actively sit in the shade and do nothing. Also impressed by the value doubling rate of the dollar’s in pocket (1-week). Interested that you had to pay to leave the country, cash (US $ only) no change given. This being the governments take on the “ever open hand” of the population in response to seeing an non-indigenous face.
Back in the days of the popular "Feed the World" movement , a good mate of ours, a Post Grad (Ph,D) from a local Agricultural College, helped in a project to grow experimental hybrid ( native to Africa) higher yield grain. He spent some time in Ethiopia trying to get it off the ground, or more correctly IN the ground and growing. After having paid several lots of bribes to different people and departments, to be allowed to help them, he came back rather disillusioned, and with a tape worm from the Addis Abbaba Hilton. The workers they paid, wouldn`t work, the whole thing was a waste of time. Nobody apparently wanted to be helped. Sorry for the second-hand tale, but your post reminded me of those far off days.
@@Africa1000 I'm assuming you were talking about Ethiopia since you didn't specify. As far as Zimbabwe: they are on the brink of starvation RIGHT NOW. Do you know why? They threw all the white farmers out! 🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡🤡
@@American-Plague Another liar..... Where are they starving or on the brink if it ? Manicaland, Rutape, Mutare, Vic Falls, Gweru, Bulawayo? Just tell me where these starving masses are!
One night I was at a men's bible study , a homeless healthy , good looking young man came in , I greeted him and asked him to stay and eat with us , which he did As we were talking he said to me I BET YOU LIVE IN A NICE WARM HOUSE . This took me by surprise ! ! ! AND I SAID TO HIM ' ' YES I DO ' ' AND I LOVE IT ! ! ! You see on my farm in 2021 we were short on help and I worked over 110 hours a week [ during harvest time ] .' ' Dam ' ' if I will apologize for enjoying the fruits of my labor for the risks as a farmer and the hours I have to put in to make it . This young healthy man can just get a job , any job , and do the same thing ! ! !
Listening to the world service this morning and they had the author Stephen Bourne promoting his book, Black Poppies, Britain's Black Community and the great war., says he is a historian. After going to see the movie 1917 when it came out I went home and did some googling to find out about some points raised in the movie didn't take long to realise the movie 1917 should be listed under fiction. It would be nice if Simon Webb did a video about this topic.
Do you remember the pathetic opener to the gigantic waste of money that was the 2012 Olympics in London when they had a dancing 19th Century black millowner among their ridiculous panorama of "Britishness". Rewriting "history" for political gain has been going on for decades now. The same with "culture" with, for example, the "work" of people such as the rapper Stormzy now being treated reverently and taught in skools as being on a par with Shakespeare. Idiotic political surrender.
@@girlgirl4548 the great irony is that black children should be taught a wholly fictitious account of the role played by black people to massively exaggerate their place in history.....but the same people want white children to be taught the worst possible aspects of there ancestors and how flawed all the great people were.........black children should be empowered but white children should be demoralised................but cycle lanes are 'racist'.
@@davida369 Yes, the "dancing bedsteads" thing, representing "our wonderful NHS, the envy of the whole wide world" was one of the most eye-popping features. Nothing but a very poor medical insurance scheme, paid for by some and serially abused by many, but there you go, mass delusion wins the day, especially when politicians feel there are votes in it!
According to those I know who have actually worked in Africa, their Spanish social structure also holds them back. A black doctor in Rhodesia would receive the same salary as a white one, but have a far lower standard of living because his society obliged him to help out distant relatives, whereas the white doctor just had his immediate family to support. The same applies to all occupations, the successful are expected to help out unsuccessful distant relatives. This reduces the incentives both for the successful, who don't get to enjoy the fruits of their efforts, and the unsuccessful who can scrounge off their relatives rather than making the most of their abilities. It also raised the expectation that a successful politician will immediately reward his supporters, usually at the expense of opposition supporters.
Late Walter Mischel who devised the original marshmallow test for measuring delayed gratification released a book in 2014 called The Marshmallow Test. In it he pointed out one explaining factor: Trust/mistrust of adults. Children who had learned to mistrust adults would invariably eat the one marshmallow, because they didn't trust that there would be the promised two marshmallows later.
@@mikespencer4922 Which was due to being raised by parents whose word couldn't be relied upon. Made promises which they didn't fulfill. The source was early conditions which showed up in the marshmallow test as a preschooler. When he did a follow-up many as adults struggled. His book is worth reading. It added to the extensive research on child development and the importance of the first 5 years.
@Admire Kashiri corruption yes but sanctions? Why is it that Rhodesia managed to survive despite sanctions? But Zimbabwe cannot? No that is your own leaders passing the buck again. Its up to people such as yourself to change that.
@Craig Blanche Craig bru... your on the Titanic... it struck an iceberg not an ice cube or icecream. You wont know it because it's dark in so many ways... youre going down.
Am an middle class citizen and not happy with what is happening in Zimbabwe. The disease that has both affected and infected us is corruption. My view is if corruption was controlled despite land reform, we will not have reached this trying period. I believe white are not saviors and Gods, not all Europeans and white American countries are free from poverty even in USA its there, as per "whiteness" definition of poverty. There are some African countries who are developing i.e Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana and Ethiopia. No one will develop Africans except for Africans.
I think the culture being described is the same for all of black Africa and not just Rhodesia. My parents emigrated to Nigeria in the 1950's, not long before independence and my brother was born out there. Many black workers wanted to work directly for white employers as that way they knew they'd get paid, and and get paid in full as their countrymen would rob them.
Black peoples in Africa were not commercial farmers like the white Africans so when Mugabe took the land and gave it to black peoples they starved. This was told to me by an SA white farmer.
But black people are the oldest race on the planet. How then did they exist before the arrival of the white man if according to you, they can't survive on their own????
I have been binge watching this guys channel for a week and still cant stop watching! Defiantly going to pick up one of his books and recommending him to all my friends!
Correction for you: The African-American Museums recent list of white "racist" traits (e.g., delayed gratification, etc.) were not written by a black American; it was written by a Jewish American woman.
Most black people I know hate this sort of stuff because it's so patronising. These traits are universal, and can be adopted by anyone for success. One example is their claim that strong family structures are an example of 'whiteness'. This claim doesn't make much sense given that most African cultures (Those in Africa) have a very strong sense of family values and of having a tribe to look after one another.
WE are the victims of your boring conspiracy. THEY are the victims of men who have failed in their own lives and are envious of others more successful. Every. Single. Time.
This guy is a terrible historian. If you want to know what's happening in Zimbabwe, maybe ask a Zimbabwean?! Or at least someone from the region!! Don't pick an American with no connection to the country.
Why do you keep warning about SA. Clearly South Africa will not make the same mistake as Zimbabwe as long as some form of democracy exists. Zimbabwe is an authoritarianist Country run on tribal affiliations.
In my 70 years in Africa I've learnt a few things about the indigenous peoples beliefs. One of which was ancestral worship. The belief that your ancestors controlled what happened in your future. So there is no need to plan ahead.
Who invited them to come and improve the African? Why didn't they stay home and create the paradise in their countries? I can't believe that a living person would try and justify colonial imperialism.
That's ok. Objective people realize Britain was colonized by Romans, Anglo-Saxons (Germanic), Scandinavians, & Normans (France). The difference being Britain was welded into a more advanced society, & Africa fractured along racial lines. Recent history suggests when the unfortunate victims of colonialism oust the whites on racial lines, they then proceed to slaughter fellow blacks on tribal lines. Of course this is entirely the fault of colonialism, as African society accepts no responsibility for it's failings.
There is nothing in your short film I feel I can disagree with, take Zimbabwe under Mugabe’s stewardship and the systematic destruction of its means of feeding not only itself but other nations in Africa simply because of white farmers who have been murdered and dispossessed of their livelihoods, their farms handed over to Mugabe’s thug following who showed that they couldn’t even run a Facebook farm. The same is happening in South Africa with white farmers, it is toxic hatred of the white man and revenge that fires their hostility. I cannot see a good end for these people the world is more polarised now than any time in history. Our media conveniently overlook what is happening as do our left leaning politicians and party’s it’s all very (f)mucked up.
Aren’t the people angry tho that their peoples farms were stolen in the first place. And while it is shown that black farmers have become violent, white farmers have also done the same. One even buried a black farmer alive and he almost died until someone found out. There really should be talks about a resolution instead of one group taking all of it.
Stephen Chappell that doesn’t make any sense because that’s also the mentality of a rich person in general. They surround themselves in gold, diamond necklaces, rings barely lifting a finger in their company or other means of wealth. That part of rap culture is just about getting rich through music but there are many parts of rap culture that focus solely on making music or telling their stories.
@@onepunch1019 Yes you have a point. Rich white people also surround themselves with bling. It's more mainly the something for nothing culture which Rap seems to promote which works to the detriment of black kids in particular. In the US African Americans are conscious of this and are trying to put forward better role models for their kids.
One Punch101 they set up the truth and reconciliation commission to make some sort of peace with what happened during apartheid but you have agitators like Josef Molima who are not interested in this and actively talk of killing the white man which they do with covert state sponsorship. It seems the only resolution is genocide alas.
Anyone who has not lived in Africa for a long while cannot possibly understand. I have been here for over 40 of my 73 years. There is amongst many - not all - a total and deep-seated mental inability to comprehend how the modern world must work for benefit of productivity, industry, science etc etc - all Western notions - must operate to be sustainable and to spread benefits widely. You can analyse this to the nth degree and come up with all manner of complex pseudo- scientific theories, but this is a futile endeavour. One needs to get to grips with the many millennia of tribal culture and remembering that this was probably little different in Europe a thousand years ago or more. Yet European white people managed to throw off that cramped, inward-looking, stifling and communistic (in the true communal or collectivisr sense where individualism is a sin) culture whilst African blacks in large part have not fully done so yet - and many not at all! Many in the younger age groups, as a result of education, are trying I believe to dispense with a lot of this, but it is deeply ingrained in the psyche and along with it go many very strange and frankly dangerous, primitive beliefs, superstitions and practices. South Africa for instance legally recognises as "medical practitioners" what we might call "witch doctors" who in law have equal status as actual trained medical doctors! In a simplistic nutshell, Africa does not work because it's people do not understand how the world works. Indeed they try often to reshape the modern world to suit their primitive belief systems even whilst observing the chaos and failure these attempts bring!
The children's marshmallow test. In northern countries we need to plan and prepare for long cold winters and delaying gratification was a matter of life or death.
Rhodesia was already independent before 1980. In 1980 a government, that with all of it's failings and shortcoming, that did allow freedom and respected individual rights, was replaced by a Marxist Regime that rejected the ideas of freedom of expression and individual rights, with the bad outcomes well described here. Whatever shortcomings Rhodesia did have, it was not a colony. It was an independent country. The Marxists didn't free Rhodesia from a colonial master, the took a free country and turned it into a cruelly indifferent dictatorship. ;-)
Whether they've improved their situation or not, it's their ship to navigate. We ought to keep our snouts out of it. We can have fair trade with them, encourage sustainable birthrates, but otherwise leave them to it. Our own nations are a mess.......they should be our focus.
Or, here's an idea, the globalist corporations championing unlimited mass invasion of our decent Western civilisations can go and invest instead in some hellhole on that continent, without rule of law, with limitless graft and corruption, without stability, etc, etc. I'm sure they'll just love the first-hand experience of the "culture" they promote and that all the rest of us are being obliged to swallow as our own societies are destroyed and these same companies reap the profits from that destruction.
@@girlgirl4548 The federal reserve and the globalists are knowingly destroying the West. They're faceless people we don't vote for, involved in treacherous, criminal enterprises. We'll never stop them until we unite and have the numbers.
You nailed it. Self-control and delayed gratification are the number one cultural factor making some societies more stable and economically successful than others. It's about culture, not race: tropical cultures usually didn't have an incentive for these values since food was available year round. And people hold on to their cultural values tenaciously over generations, even when those values are no longer practically advantageous.
Race cannot be ruled out unfortunately - thousand of generations of segregated evolution can cause all kinds of genetic differences, including ofcourse cognitive ones. But I agree that cultural change takes quite a few generations too.
It's genetic. IQ is 80% genetic, and culture comes from collective intelligence. All the fools in denial of this are merely enabling further dysfunction, which results in widespread suffering and death. So all the bleeding-hearts are actually facilitating the worse and worse suffering by being childishly delusional and clinging to feel-good narratives.
decay in post colonial Africa has nothing to do with race and everything to do with that fact that liberators were socialists. hence the decline because it is inherent in socialism
Your correct about Africa I lived inany southern African countries during the 70s and 80s which were then thriving. It's incredibly sad how quickly they have been turned into third world countries.
If you take the delayed gratification argument too far, Simon, I have a bunch of heather to sell you. Otherwise - seen with my own eyes. I saw a line of large, modern but derelict fishing trawlers on Lake Malawi. They had been financed with bank loans. I was told the skippers made plenty of money, but spent it all on advancing their social status, such as spending a lot of time in bars and clubs and acquiring a culture-appropriate number of girlfriends. When they failed to service their loans, they went out of business. I also watched people collecting protein from the lake less efficiently, by standing on the shore line and sweeping an open weave basket from side to side in the clouds of flying insects, which they subsequently compressed, cooked and ate. His Excellency President for Life Doctor Hastings Banda was in charge at the time, though I must have shortened his official title since I was there. The country was a peaceful and happy place, being fortunately devoid of natural resources worth fighting wars for. Another custom was that women entered a man's office by crawling on their hands and knees.
Rhodesia and South Africa were BOTH toppled so as the Western and Communist countries could obtain Chromite ore (refined into Chromium) for much cheaper pricing. Facts.
My Oupa fought in the Rhodesian Bush War and lived in Rhodesia until Zimbabwe was formed. My mom was born in 1978, two years before. They fled to South Africa in 1979. My oupa now works in Malawi, a country north of Zimbabwe that the majority of you might recognize better as Nyasaland. He is very happy driving between farms all over the country to help them manage agricultural production.
The British actively supported socialist programmes in Tanzania and Kenya. In hindsight this was the patronising bigotry of low expectations. At the time the British were trying to instill a humanitarian mindset in the newly independent countries.
Frank Marshall-Davis . Yes. During the time of the guerrilla war the insurgents were backed by China and the USSR who supplied all their military gear as well as their ideology. It has paid off for China.
@Admire Kashiri thats because Simon is been honest and not sugar coating this particular pill so save your feeling .Its a brave thing to do sticking to the facts at the moment as im sure he gets called a rascist by your sjw's and low life muppets who have no idea about world history.
@Admire Kashiri Call him what you like. It's your opinion but these aren't Simons opinions these are facts .Please before wasting my time again watch the.clip and fact check everything .For me ive watched this and I cant fault Simon on anything he has to say but good luck you might discover a rich vein of Sub Saharan history.
I've no idea whether delayed gratification is a black trait or not however I've been in the situation to notice that white people at the bottom of the social scale tend to be less likely to delay gratification which goes a long way to keeping themselves at the bottom.
Trouble we have now ,especially in Britain with its benefit system is that there are lots,not a minority but lots of people who are able to work but won't because they will always be looked after so they don't worry about delaying gratification ,they have instant gratification everyday. These people are cash poor but they are not as poor as the left would have you think when you work out just what gets paid for them by the state but then again lots of hard working people are cash poor once they have paid there dues and demands and recieve little or no help
Mr Webb an Arab Islamic historian in 10 or 12 th century described how African never save up food form post rain harvested instead, ate and party till there no food left, they bothered there neighbors for food.
I read the Bible from Genesis to Revelations in the 1970's. Having grown up on a farm I understood the metaphors and the concept of taking care of your crops and live stock with an eye on the future. This provided the basic needs of everyone: Food, Clothing, Shelter. You are absolutely correct in that aspect. It was the Judeo-Christian world view that propelled the world into the industrial revolution and prosperity unknown for all of human history. That word view is now condemned as Evil. Starvation is the result.
Could you make a video on the non-failure that is Botswana? As far as I've read, the founder of Botswana did a competent job in instilling democracy and solid enough institutions to help the country develop as much as it has even after he stepped down (even with the impact of the AIDS epidemic). The Museum of African American History put it out quite bluntly, the values in both white and black communities show significant differences and their results are quite telling. However, there are exceptions to the rule. Unlike the Nigerians that Britain receives, the Nigerians that migrate to the US are by far one of the most successful groups in the country with one of the highest per capita incomes and academic achievement scores. The differences between Nigerian immigrants plus their descendants and the native African American community come down to values. Nigerian-American families typically have both parents in the household and instill values in their children that prioritize education, hard work ethic, and social responsibility. The fact that the Nigerians that migrate to the US are generally middle and upper class helps create a base of stability for the nuclear families that they establish. These values can be found in Chinese-American, Korean-American, Indian-American, Cuban-American, etc. households. Contrast that with the African American community where 74% of households have no father figure present and where most births are out of wedlock. This translates to poor educational, social, and economic performances (not to mention the disproportionate amount of crime that is committed in their communities).
The clever thing the king of Botswana did was to not dismantle any of what the Brits had built there in colonial times. Meanwhile, Nigeria is being brain-drained by American universities looking for black students and academics to fill their diversity quotas.
I agree but there is a very significant factor that you have missed (and Simon has missed). It is almost never considered when talking about the Africans. This is the difference between the tribes or ethnic groups in Africa. Africa is the most diverse continent in the world. In Nigeria for example 3 very different tribes make up 70% of the population and they are very distinct in behaviour and identity. In Zimbabwe the two main tribes, Shona and Ndebele are radically different people. I don't know how much these peoples share the traits Simon talks about but I do think it should be considered when talking about their success or otherwise in the diaspora.
@@73elephants What institutions? The British didn't even care to make Bechuanaland a proper colony. It was just a barren wasteland to them. I like that one of the countries in Africa least affected by colonialism is one of the continent's success stories. This is all thanks to its black leadership.
@@girlgirl4548 And why is that? Read my other submissions.The poorest countries in Africa today are former French colonies that are still living in French neocolonialism. Burkina Faso, a former French colony could have become like Botswana if France (with the help of the US) didn't assasinate its first democratically elected president, Thomas Sankara. The French backed a coup that installed their puppet, Blaise Compaoré who would end up being a brutal dictator that ruled the country for 27 years until 2014, when the people revolted.
Your comments on delayed gratification are interesting and looking at the work undertaken I think are accurate at the time. However, I think there is an argument that the younger white generation globally are increasingly moving towards instant gratification and not wishing to plan for any long term future.
@@Jonny_Does_Breaks I agree, it would be great to try those experiments again and see how the generations have changed. What do you think the outcome would be?
I was thinking exactly the same thing as I watch Simon`s excellent video. When we were young, people saved up for stuff, or were given relatives` old furniture for starters. We also planned our families...shock horror...until we could afford to feed and clothe them on the income we had. Even Hire Purchase was known as the Never Never and largely frowned upon. Now everyone has so much debt hanging round their necks and, it seems, nothing for a rainy day. It`s become a way of life. Are we, as a society, getting dumber, more dependent on State Handouts? Is it a deliberate plan?
@@simonbroddle754 I would expect to see a move towards instant gratification, with newer generations. I am 40, my peers generally have more in common (regarding social values etc) with 60 year olds than 20 year olds.
only have to look at who's breeding and who isn't, our best certainly ain't breeding(As much) and alot of white males(smarter/more successful) are opting out all together
There is an Italian film "Africa Addio" (1966) which was filmed over 1962 - 64 which charts the end of colonialism in Africa. It's worth a look although the full Italian version has no subtitles and the US version was edited quite heavily. Both are available on the internet. Be warned it is quite tough viewing at times and not for reasons of "white guilt". It was rarely if ever shown in the UK and it shows in brutal and gory detail what happened once white rule ended there and it was not bucolic happiness unfortunately. To give an idea there is footage of mercenaries fighting, summary execution, the aftermath of tribal massacres, unrestricted hunting of wild animals (many of which are now endangered and you can see why) and none of it is censored. The makers had no allegiance with the British Empire and the UK so it is unlikely to have been biased but you can see why it was probably not shown in the UK. It does, however, provide an interesting counter point to the popular liberal idea that all things bad in Africa stemmed from white colonialism and things could only get better afterwards.
I have a copy somewhere & will dig it out for another watch. Of the many mouth drying moments one tattooed on the retina was the Arabs of Zanzibar being marched into the sea by their new Tanzanian masters. Where was Julius Nyerere on that day?!
I doubt there will ever be a statue of Ian Smith in Zimbabwe. Just as there will never be a statue of Enoch Powell in England. It can’t not be noticed that England, which destroyed Rhodesia, will end someday in the same place.
@Monica Frances Thornton One thing is for sure, whte people should not be given the opportunity to decide no ones security or liberty in someone else's land where their whte ancestors killed, stole land from the natives and tried imposed whte supremacy ideology. Cheers🍸
@IM HO You have a whte colonial guttersniping mindset my friend. Whether its the khoisan, bantu.... etc, they are all blk Africans and they are indigenous to the continent. The only ppl who aren't indigenous is you euro-thieve-lands. Cheers🍸
@IM HO I will say it again to you. You have a guttersniping colonial mindset. All of those "inventions" you mutants love to claim you developed independently....actually had input from other nonwhte ppl including blk ppl. You have a false historical narrative of your ppl in terms of achievements. You words have fallen on flat ears.....because that's what they are.....just words, there is nothing encouraging about them so please keep them to yourself. Cheers🍸
The consept of foreward planning eludes africans. So in every case in Africa (except Botswana), the country is quickly used up in terms of infrastructure. Greed, corruption and tribalism destroy everything.
The thing to remember is that all areas occupied by current populations are the product of colonization by those populations at some point in time. No one came from where they currently live at some point in their past. At this point in time, China is colonizing Africa. Hopefully they enjoy that more.
J Denmark . There is no such thing as a native population. We all came originally from somewhere else. Originally we started from a mountain in Turkey and some guy who arrived from somewhere by boat.
Most African countries have had rapid declines in their economies since independence. Most of these nations are plagued by corruption,nepotism,tribalism, politicising every aspect of life & religious beliefs ,which have contributed to the rising inflation ,high standard of living and totalitarian regimes oppressing people. It interestingly people still can't see the implications these actions are having on most countries and they continue to sing songs of praise for people that are misappropriating their taxes while having their countries slowly choking on foreign debt.
The Smithsonian should be ashamed for making that list. They were harpooned and satirized and took it down and left a comment trying to explain why they developed such a racist list. Two thirds of that list were success strategies. Africans who come to the US are our second most successful immigrant group. They seem to obtain the American dream.
Can you elaborate on the source of information for the most successful immigrant groups. Is it just 3 groups Asian, Hispanic, African & is it modern immigrants or people who have lived there for hundreds of years?
That is actually quite right and that is because much of the so called 'African American' narrative the seems to apply to those black people who are actually American and not African at all is simply ignored because the nonsense politics that goes with it has not set in, in short the USA is better for these newcomers that Africa.
The most successful recent immigrant groups to USA are highly qualified Chinese, followed by Russians and East Europeans. Africans go to North America, Europe and Australasia to scrounge. Now descendants of the European Colonialists have left Africa, China will take Africa over. Thank goodness for that. China will teach Africans to behave like adults.
I recommend the book The Great Betrayal by Ian Smith. Mugabe a member of the Shona tribe was responsible for the death of 40,000 Matabele tribe. He also sold the country's entire stock of wheat. Two years ago Zimbabwe unemployment rate was 95% and they are asking the rest of the world to bail them out, Cat Mansell
The reasons for observed genetically determined differences between social attitudes of those who inhabit equatorial regions and those in temperate zones are discussed by Professor Steve Jones in his book 'In the Blood'. See pages 179 and onwards. Briefly the cause is evolutionary adaptation to the climate. If you live in a zone with a short growing season forward planning is essential and guarding the produce explains for instance all those 'brochs' in northern Scotland. They were food stores, not forts.
Or maybe it was just bad leaders... not necessarily about race. Around the time of Zimbabwean independence the Soviet union was being poorly managed and disregarded the welling being of their people and their leadership was white. Revolutionary and worst of all communist don't make for great leaders. Botswana next door fair far better then Zimbabwe so I don't think it can be chopped up to only race.
@Rob Pike because most of their countries have only existed for like 40 years and expecting groups of people who we happily murdering eachother before colonialism to just get along after was a stupid idea and the rawandan genocide and the 1st and 2nd congo war show that
As someone who used to farm, delayed gratification is a massive part of farming, even to the point where you are setting the farm up for the next generation. Farmers do things like buying neighbouring land, knowing it's going to take 2 or 3 years before they start getting returns on that land. Even animal breeding, you keep your best animals and sell off the worst, so you are essentially, keeping the ones that would otherwise make you the most money straight away. If delayed gratification is a White thing and it's complete lack a Black thing, this reduces black people to hunter gatherers. Farming started in the middle east, so it's nether a Black or White thing, it's just something people do to live. Putting a capital letter ideology on it only makes people who don't need to stave, stave.
Rhodesia was the breadbasket of Africa, it was a tiny country on the continent at that time. since 1980 it became quite fast a hellhole. Nothing is produced and people get by being not dead.That is what communist leaders will get you. The GB government promoted Mugabe as revenge that the war hero Smith wouldnt cowtow to colonial rule. He was supported by SA on the down low, but SA fell to communism when mandela took power. Africa today is more volatile and dangerous for people to visit than ever before.
I lived in Rhodesia for a few years late 60's early 70's I went back there in 2002 . What was left was a hollowed out version of what had been built . The buildings still stood , though dilapidated , but the life was gone , tribalism had come back with a vengeance . This is Africa, always was , always will be .
Africa seems to have reached an equilibrium state before the coming of Europeans. It is simply returning to it. There will be great suffering in the process. Europe itself will not be immune from it.
Until they finally manage to kill each other off in WARS. Disease and starvation will also play a part.
I share your sentiments. And being of South African birrh. I'm sorry to say, the same can be said about that country. Simon views on the topics he talks about are given with logical and honest facts. He is a man who possess a lot of wisdom. If, only our Houses of Parliament had MP's like him running the country on our behalf.
It's amazing that that's exactly how America looks today
South Africa in progress
I lived and worked in 6 African countries from1969 for 30 years. I was in Zambia from 1972 to 75 at Magoye research station which is between Mazabuka and Livingstone. A friend and I would go fishing on the Kafue river at weekends. On on such sortie I hooked a local fishing net which I noticed had a mesh size of less than 1cm square. I took a sample to show the local fisheries officer in Mazabuka. His reaction was to shout at me to mind my own business and Zambia would do what it liked with its resources! I learned later that during colonialism the legal net size was 4in square (100mm) for reasons of conversation.
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On the road from the copper belt down to Livingstone there was regular traffic in the form of Kenworth heavy trucks transporting massive copper ingots to the border with Rhodesia. The copper was sold for hard cash which disappeared into fat cat pockets. The UN and other development agencies advised the Zambian government to set up copper good manufacturing industries rather than selling the raw copper. The response was the same as the one I got from the fisheries officer! Of course later they were buying their own copper back in the form of copper goods and wondering why the country is not making any money from its copper mines.
The mega-corruption seems to be ubiquitous all across Africa. Mugabe had billions stashed away out of Zimbabwe. Mobutu had billions stashed away out of then-Zaire. Dos Santos had billions stashed away out of Angola (I was told he was getting a dollar on every barrel of oil exported!). Some of the leaders of now-independent former French colonies had or have billions stashed away out of their respective countries. One could go on and on. The reality, a reality the excusers and complainers here and elsewhere just refuse to admit, is that Africa is immensely rich in natural resources but that wealth is squandered through inefficiency and indolence or simply stolen through mega-corruption. The corruption is systemic, everyone is at it at every level of society, the civil servants whose signature is required on the simplest of documents, the police seeking to extract money under threat of spurious fines, the customs to approve imports or exports, people in business abusing their positions, everyone thinking they are individually smartly corrupt but, of course, then blaming whomever, particularly the Wicked West, but never, never ever themselves for the complete mess they themselves have created.
@@girlgirl4548 Further to my previous message. I returned to Zambia in 1992 as part of a UN evaluation mission. I was able to vist with some of my old African friends in Magoye. Over a beer one evening I asked "So how is Zambia after 25+ independence?" The response was silence as all three starred into their beer mugs. One old chap looked up at me "Harold, these people (the government) are no good!" Then, "When is Queeny Elizibet coming back?" followed by a cheeky smile.
@@haroldpearson6025 Yes, I believe there was an opinion poll among Zimbabweans decades after independence and they selected Ian Smith as having been their best leader. Says it all, really.
@@haroldpearson6025 That conversation about Queen Elizabeth going back was meant to please you!! Believe me it becomes different when we are alone!!!
@@gertrudekamyaothieno7934 I lived and worked in Africa for 30 years, was married to an African for 20 years, I know the difference. My Zambian friends had lived many years under colonial administration, they also knew the difference.
Few years back my elderly parents and I visited one of their old friends whose grand daughter had just come back from Kenya after doing a year or so there linked to her university course. While she was there she met an elderly Kenyan native (eighty-plus) and they got talking. She commented he must have seen great changes in the country over his lifetime and asked him what he thought of it all. He thought for a few seconds and then took a careful look around to see who was nearby and within earshot. Once satisfied he leaned forward and said quietly "It was a damn sight better place when the whites were running it."
That IS sad; especially being Black Africans who came to the USA as 'free people' are arguably the most successful 'race/ethnicity'. So much for 'White racism' being the culprit.
Doesn't surprise me at all.
Look at the black run cities here in America. Complete shit holes.
Uncle Ruckus
No fu..g kidding.
I am a second-generation Kenyan-born white African. Oh dear what happened to the place!
Rhodesia was self governing , much like Canada and Australia. Long before independence.
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1923 KGV granted self-government in thanks for Rhodesians in WW1. Rhodesia was the dominion that never was...
I am a black man and it's sad to admit that we have played victim since colonial times. We do not admit our shortcomings and place the blame on the white man or the government.
Notice which group feeds that narrative the most. Notice how noticing is forbidden.
I still have a colour postcard a friend of my grandmother's sent her when she was on holiday in Rhodesia in 1964. She remarks that 'this is a wonderful country- truly Heaven on earth. If I were 30 years younger I would move here.' She would have been in her early 70s then, so probably died before she her optimism was proved disastrously wrong.
I visited a friend In Zimbabwe in 1986.
Then, it was still a beautiful country. The ZANU Party had not got around to wrecking the country. They needed a little more time.
@@luckylukewalker9834 probably so but zanu pfs progress was certain! You would of arrived during the Genocide known as the gukurahundi massacre where tens of thousands of innocent civilians were massacred in matabeleland
Visited Zimbabwe in 1986. A beautiful country even then. The physical assets built up during white rule were still intact. The pillaging by the government hadn’t got into its stride until later years.
I was born, bred and buttered in Durban and grew up fluent in 3 languages, including Zulu, which I still speak to this day.
Another markedly different trait of the typical African was his improvidence! When faced with perfectly edible leftovers, for example, all our black pupils would habitually consign them to the dustbin!
Times journalist, Matthew Parris grew up in Malawi and he recalled the "crushing passivity of the people's mindset.)
However, the Christians among them were generally different, being more like lively, curious and confident, he observed.
An expert on farming told me that he visited Southern Rhodesia, as it then was, to see the most efficient farming in the world.
Delusion of grandeur....at what cost in blood to grow some crops.
What was efficient about it?
They used to call it the breadbasket of Africa
Yes, afrikaaners
@@kenny39able your soft approach gets black people nowhere. No blood was spilt other than farmers
I am an African advocating for change in Africa....and I approve the content in this video as 99.99% accurate
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I am an American, of mixed heritage, who use to be one of the easily offended. And at first was a bit shocked by your content, but I am actually getting to understand it now and have become quite addicted 🙏 thank you I get a lot of joy from your channel now. Your reasoning reminds me of my grandfather’s who I love and miss.
I'm glad that I don't offend everybody!
Admire Kashiri I recommend you vacate this channel and go where you are welcome. There are some good Woke pre-school channels these days for you to enjoy.
Ian would you like the USA to still be a colony.
@@johnburns7142 I want all human interaction to be voluntary
@Kenneth Schrank ask that question again to yourself. Do you think the word force negates the word voluntary.
Your analysis is spot on. I spent 20 years in South Africa and a couple of years in Ghana and Kenya. Particularly in South Africa the need for instant gratification and lack of planning for the future has seen the infrastructure rot to a terrible state, the state capture of institutions based on how much I can make from them now, and a complete failure to invest in the future of the country.
I heard that the problem with agriculture under Mugabe was that his government seized the land from skilled, experienced farmers, gave the land not to Zimbabwean farmers, but to his own cronies, who had no idea how to farm. Difficulty with delayed gratification may have been part of the problem, but sheer incompetence was probably the main problem.
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Because of delayed gratification
If one believed that the white man's farm would just naturally generate money for the farmer and that by displacing the farmer that money would now flow to whoever now occupied the farm, then the fact that money didn't just flow would be incomprehensible because it did for the white farmer. The fact that the farm had to be labored over and managed went completely by the new "owners" who just wanted the rewards and did not imagine that they would have to do a lot of hard work to get those rewards.
diffrence between power that follows from ones soul desire for competence and the incompetence that follows one whos only desire is power, something like that
His wife owned 5 farms and this is years ago none of the workers had been paid for 6 months.
I wonder how many people will scream" that's racists " about this one , it's just away of stopping debate .
Alison Hilll Don’t let it stop you Alison.
Let it out. We will be even more enriched by sharing of ideas.
It appears History Debunked has Africa on his mind a lot. I secretly believe him and Bill Gates go there together. I also believe he was involved in writing the United Nations report which says Africa will have massive growth to end the 21st century. Just my thoughts.
@@MrMegagoldenarms No its just more Hasbarra trolls trying to stir up a race war, guess what ,we aren't like you ,different cultures.
@Mfalme Mtukutu Who and why ? Please explain i like to hear people's opinions .
Strangely, I have also looked at this issue in Africa (and elsewhere too) and came to the same conclusion - planning for the future is dismally lacking in Africa. Its all about today(instant gratification) and not worry about tomorrow. When money flows, go buy a BMW! And that farm tractor oil change, well..........it can wait till next season!
My daughter in the USA operates on the same principle!
Correct!!
A common thread that runs throughout all 'successful' cultures, regardless of race/skin color, etc; being frugal, sobriety, belief in education/skilled trades, being humble as in letting small 'disses' go, etc.
The population is 6 times what it was in the 1950's thanks to Fleming and the missionaries, how can that ever succeed. Chinese have taken on the white mans role in Africa, compare their compassion in due course. Although born in Rhodesia, am also called a white Rhodesian colonialist. Voted with my feet.
I think most parts of Europe will be 3rd world within 50 years, I have seen the symptoms before.
Wow these must be some fertile missionaries.
@@Skandalos what's in the way for making babies like that, is the western culture and how they treat women.
when you let females go for careers and have cats all their lives, no babies will be born.
too much freedom leads to no people... strange?
@@savagegtalks5912 I think you are missing the point. Much of the population growth, as with South Africa, is the result of immigration.
@@warringtonfaust1088 what kind of garbage is this? Immigration to Africa? lol
I knew a Rhodesian named Gary in 1976 at church summer camp here in the states. He was 18 and here to defer the draft a year. I've thought about him ever after. I wish I was more adult at the time! There are so many questions I'd love to ask him, if he's still alive.
Your insights are very refreshing. As a Zimbabwean member of the "born-free" generation, I think it's important to discuss these things.
And it's not racist to say the things you've said. In fact, I know *many* Black Zimbabweans of all ages who echo your thoughts exactly.
More like fundamentally mumbo jumbo
Hopefully they’ll stay there and improve their country than come to our place and make ours worse.
@@Dentropolis wheres your place then because I'm sure your making a good enough job of it as is
There were a number of Blacks serving in the Rhodesian Army trying to PREVENT what has happened there! Mugabe should be HANGED for crimes against Humanity!
I used to work with a black Zimbabwean lady, who sometimes went back there to visit relatives. In the end when she came back complaining about how bad things had become there under Mugabe I asked her if some black Zimbabweans said things had been better under Ian Smith's white supremacist Rhodesian regime and she replied 'Of course' as though it was so obvious she was surprised I needed to ask
I lived for some time in one country (which I will not name) where the response of big businesses to big problems (which were entirely of their own making) was instantly to send for "the white man" to sort them out, at least until the next cock-up.
i was out in Zimbabwe visiting relatives & at a braii met a couple of black miners. They were sick of what Mugabe had done to the country in just 5 years. That day there Income Tax went up to around 62% of income from 30%. They wished that Ian Smith was still in charge.
@Katherine Sparkes I didn't know that but shall try to find out more about Ian Smith's regime to see if I have accepted a liberal media narrative unquestioningly. (I was a teenager when Smith gave up power following a guerrilla war and remember it being in the news but my parents were liberal and the newspaper they took, which is therefore the one I was most likely to read, was the Guardian, so I may have mainly got one side of the story). Are there any books, websites or documentaries you would recommend on this subject?
We can be so unsophisticated in white Southern African when we live so isolated and in fear.
Please learn to take it with a tablespoon of salt when you hear a black person whose name you hardly know, making a comment on request about such issues as comparing South Africa/ Zimbabwe then and now, (when they hardly know you to be able to trust you) with even their own subjective truth. We have been so dehumanized by your imposing..... everything .....when we have so .....nothing.... that we have learned to tell you what you want to hear.... (not every one of us obviously ).
Remember Rev "Disable" Mizorewa in Zimbabwe and the Bantustan leaders in South Africa? See how they all vanished? This is how white expectations of who we should be for them ( not of all whites) made them leaders. To be a good black person to many I found in this comment section is to repeat to you as white, a world view about truth that aligns itself with your view which we gladly oblige with many a time for our perceived survival. You are sometimes still wrongly perceived to be that all important.... even intimidating. Until we discover ourselves through education to understand through knowledge.... and reduce our beliefs you brainwashed us with including your religious beliefs that's mentally crippled our people to want to be victims... many a time .... but also not all...Amen
@Katherine Sparkes He said that speech when he realised the people wanted there country back and would do so at all costs. Hahahahahahaha. He was a racist fool he killed/bombed, segregated and inhumanly mistreated them. He was a racist monster that is in hell.
"Here's the story of Rhodesia, a land that's now been raped"
Now happening in South Africa!
@@kznjonno602 ... and Mandela and his cronies are still worshiped. They put the clock but to the time when the African chief treated his land and people as personal chattels.
ric 63 South Africa's rape stats are like a hidden menu item, even if you ask for them you won't find them, and they're disappointing to say the least
Rhodesians never die
@@thecuttingsark5094 where are they?
I hope you’re looking after yourself S W We’ll need you until the end of time, I can’t believe you even exist, another excellent one
Thank you!
Agreed, Simon is an absolute treasure. .
Hi David hope to see MONA reopon soon
@@HistoryDebunkedsimonwebb I think your ideas would be more complete if you read E Michael Jones' books, especially The Slaughter of Cities - wherein lies the answer to why you use the word "whites," I think, to describe a wide variety of Europeans & their unique cultures. It is a bit of a trick...
Per capita, there was a far more robust African middle class than their equivalents in South Africa. If you think the whites 'lucked out' then so did the African middle class. So much for liberation.
@Mfalme Mtukutu For the sake of brevity, Mfalme, but were one to write a dissertation on the collapse of the economy, then one would of course talk about the lay-offs at Risco, or the collapse of the large chemicall/fertiliser works in KweKwe, the rural workers, the office workers, employees everywhere.
Once the government becomes diseased, then the rest of the body begins to decay.
An ex Kwekwe-ite.
@@warty3620 The fish rots from the head down. Ex Mazoe
There is something significant that Rhodesia was named after a great, if flawed empire builder, and Zimbabwe was named after a heap of ruins.
Once tourists visited Rhodesia to see the ruins of Zimbabwe, whereas now they visit Zimbabwe to see the ruins of Rhodesia.
How very very true !!! all but the going to visit part lol
Now for ironic; many years ago, I sold a car to stereotypical Mexican American Vato/Cholo guy, his last name was 'Rhodes'(!)
@malcolmtas5601, Zimbabwe is a black African name from the shona language. Rhodesia is a white European name from the criminal English. The ruins you are mocking were once claimed by lying whites as being built by whites and not blacks, listen we don't give a hoots what you say. We defeated the white invaders and hot our black land back. There is no sane black who would ever agree to a white man ruling us again. NEVER. I Stay in your Europe and leave Zimbabwe alone. Go and build your dream country elsewhere.
I watch charity appeals on TV showing poor little children walking 8 miles to get a drink of dirty water and my heart bleeds for the poverty in Africa. Yet I cannot bring myself to donate anything. Experience has taught me that most of the money collected doesn't get to the needy.. I remember years ago Millions of pounds was given to Kenya to ease the dreadful flooding they endured. Of the money collected, first in line was the charity itself to pay for all of its costs and the CEO of course, when the money arrived in Kenya, most was used to build an enormous wall all around the Presidential Palace. I worked In Paris for some months and made friends with some other Brits working for a well known charity. They explained how African Chiefs were invited to Paris, wined and dined, chauffeur driven limousines were available, accommodation in swank hotels and numerous ladies provided for entertainment. I vowed then never to buy their Christmas cards again. Only local charities receive my meagre gifts these days. I also wonder how humans have been living in Africa for more than 100,000 years and still can't arrange for villages to be built next to running water. I also worked in Pakistan for the World Bank and saw first hand how the elite grab the money and leave the needy to go without - Some wise man once said Rich countries collect money from their Poor people, to give to the Rich people in Poor countries.. !!!
I read in the news "Zimbabwe to return land seized from foreign farmers" - Seems like Zimbabwe is openly admitting that it is a mistake to demand instant gratification at the expense of long term suffering.
No rhodesia is gone but those business that want to do business in the country including agriculture are welcome. For any serious agriculture food producer Zimbabwe is a great place to invest. But those sanctions might be a issue. But internal consumption might still make the investment profitable for local producers.
A bit like closing the stable door after the horse has bolted.
Too late. Most of those farmers are long gone. In any case, what is to stop some future government reversing this policy?
foreihn? they were born there generations ago. they were rhodesians robbed by mugabe.
@@golden.lights.twinkle2329 exactly 💯
Once SA's food production goes, very soon it would appear, the slaughter begins.
The food will go but I hope there is no slaughter, the real problem is not planning for the future, our historian is too kind in putting reason to the problems in that continent in particular sub-Sahara- it is my view that the real problem is grand theft at a government level followed by a lot of cronyism.
@@ernestjunior3080 No one wants to see mass-killing.
However the ANC has utterly failed to learn from the Zimbabwean experience.
@@AdrianHepburn-vz9yr You are quite right and the sad thing is that during the 'Independence War' Rhodesia was still the bread basket of Southern Africa and did supply goods to the neighbors trying to undermine them - yet no lesson learned.
@@ernestjunior3080 Exactly. Your analysis is pretty objective.
@Michelle Zimbabwe already started accepting the white farmers back. There is a cute video of an Zimbabwean community cheering and hugging them. Some years ago a south African lady made a very insightful documentary on the downfall of Zimbabwe. It was one of the most depressing things I have seen. The sadness and suffering of the people, of the children, of the hopelessness were beyond my imagination.
I grew up in Rhodesia and now live in South Africa. This is spot-on. S.A.'s electricity supply company, ESKOM, is now buckling under the strain of power overload because the old power stations were never upgraded and new ones were never built, whilst more and more people were hooked up to the grid. Blackouts are now the order of the day.
That's why they call them blackouts.
Man did this comment age like fine wine.
@@Richvern1 And all the money pinched to buy fancy things to the detriment to the country.
Name an African country where European colonization made life worse for the average person. For sure many atrocities were committed by the colonizers. But on the balance, if you look at life expectancy, education level, general living standards, etc, life was vastly improved everywhere in Africa, thanks to Europeans.
A racist mind. Find the siliver lining in atrocities.
@@kenny39able Not really. Just a European who is damn tired of the demonization of Europeans. Facts, not feelings, should guide what we think about Africa. Was Britain better off by being colonized by the Roman Empire? Of course it was.
@@BjornMoren There are better ways to development than what happened to the Africans.
Straight up; the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Belgians massacred 10 million people; half the population and didn’t build or leave any lasting infrastructure or institutions to run or even connect the country on. One of the major problems of African states is they only exported base products such as agriculture or minerals and their systems were designed for the distraction and export of said materials. Colonial Empires did not invest in improving the standards of black Africans, the only benefit they received (if they were being paid anything at all) was that small amount of money allowed them to access whatever limited products that were available in the european capitalist system. But even this doesn’t hold true as this system wasn’t available in rural areas that dominated much of the countryside.
The congo.
The words piss up and brewery come to mind.
when delayed gratification is measured in the number of seconds it takes to smash the window of the nike store you have a cultural problem.
@Katherine Sparkes Get a job!!!
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Theres a documentary called 'empire of dust' the Chinese guy sums up the achievements of africa since the end of colonialism perfectly
it's very revealing. The Chinese foreman cannot get his head around the fact that the moment the white man left, the railways started getting dismantled, undoing decades of progress overnight.
@IM HO
Those colour scarf the demonrats were wearing when they were kneeling were the colours of the Ashanti tribe 1 of the biggest slave trading tribes in West Africa, oh the irony.
@alltimebestatit @alltimebestatit same could be said about the Chi nese and g unpowder. Yet Eur opeans used the wh eel and gun powder to con quer the w orld and if it wasn't for the w orld wars sta rted and fini shed by Europ eans then they would probably s till rul e the wo rld. If these other civilis ations were so clever then they should have capit alised on it instead. Why should we fe el guil ty for our an ce stors having a br ain bet ween their ears?
@G G yes they did . Black Muslim Africans have been going on the Hajj for over a millennia.
@IM HO Why do you think Rome colonised Britain?
"Planning ahead" comes from the historic extreme cold frosty winters in Europe. No planning for food-reserves in tropical or sub-tropical regions.
And perhaps the threat of spoilage or theft by animals encouraged immediate consumption.
That is PART of it.
You mean how in Japan companies plan for 20 years from now...i always find it amusing that this channel continually harps on about blacks this and that..it studiously avoids Orientals as in things like IQ, work ethic and planning they are streets ahead of the UK
@@vanpallandt5799 Simon has mentioned many times that east asians tend to be more intelligent
@@benjaminsnowden8626 though i see other people calling them drones and insect like..if someone talks like a racist, walks like racist, then they are a racist (referring in this case to people calling Asians insects and drones)
I have never been to Zimbabwe, but I have known two people who lived and worked there under white rule.
What most people find incomprehensible, is that a country with so many advantages has ended up in a ruinous state. It is somewhat ironic that africans seemingly now want to come and live in majority white countries, after achieving independence from the evils of white colonialism.
True, but they mostly vote to change them onto the countries they escaped from.
@@williamsherman3047 Otherwise known as 3rd world shitholes
They come for the welfare benefits.
I disagree on this one. What happened in Zimbabwe has happened wherever Marxists have taken over.
@@Rich-jk8ev Russia gave up Marxism thirty years age. The Marxist revolutionaries brought ruin and murder on the country, as they have done wherever they have had power.
Marxism is snake oil economics driven by anger.
@@Rich-jk8ev What is your point? There are a lot of clever Russians. Under Marxism the Russians managed to cause a famine in the most fertile part of the country. The most intelligent people in the world, the Chinese, starved under their Marxist regime. The Russians are still having to clear up the damage left by Marxist government. Marxism will guarantee failure in any circumstances. Pointing to the case of Rhodesia - and South Africa is going down the same road - proves nothing much about the people there. When people lack the basics, putting people into space indicates a warp sense of priorities.
@@Rich-jk8ev Yeah sure. And shot anyone who fell short
All you say, Mr Webb, is demonstrably true. I saw for myself in Zimbabwe, the collapse of a remarkably vibrant and functional state under the pre independence Rhodesian government into the failed state and economic collapse after a few years of the egregious Mugabe regime. And consider this: the Rhodesian dollar at the time of "independence" was worth 2 $US. After a couple of decades of corrupt and incompetent rule, the government was forced to abandon the Zimbabwe $ after its 100 trillion bank note was worth a paltry few US$$. All this was predictable when the British Government forced P.M. Ian Smith to relinquish power to Marxist Mugabe and his thugs.
The floppy was unable to run the show. What a surprise.
Now come on, not planning for the future and putting things aside for the future? I think you will find that Mugabe and his family and friends were very good at putting stuff away for their future.
Very well explained, planning for the future is a lesson even the so called prosperous countries would do well to remember! Be prepared for hard times.
Yes, given the UK's National Debt now, it seems rather hollow to say that delayed gratification is in play.
@@EdMcF1 Sadly the UK embraced SOCIALISM after WW2!
That, yes, and massive corruption and nepotism.
@Mfalme Mtukutu Well, no. It wasn't.
@Mfalme Mtukutu That's favouritism, not nepotism.
When it comes to favouritism then, yes, you are quite correct.
But nepotism, no.
@Mfalme Mtukutu When it comes to favouritism, yes, we do, indeed.
Noted Sir. As a black person, all I can say is Father God, please deliver the black man from himself.
But that mentality is precisely the problem: stop praying to God, and start doing something!
@@SkepticalTeacher yes - god will never answer your prayer
Having been brought up in the Rhodesias I can agree with all you say but wonder how long it will be before you are silenced.
I worked as a pilot for a Swiss man who had installed 4 enormous wells in Senegal as part of a Euorpean aid program. Within a year of completion, only one was operational. He was called in to fix it, and he discovered that the Africans there had stolen and sold all the spare parts on the black market...even disassembling the pumps to sell them. These people will never prosper without the aid of Asia, Europe or NA. They were a stone age civilization 2000 years after everyone else on the planet...
So Wakanda is not only not real, it can never happen at all!? Say it aint so! 😣😂
I can tell you something that's no longer real. It starts with Rhode and ends in sia 😂
@rutenga asant who?
So all this time that I had been working hard and delaying gratification I've been a white supremacist. 😂
Of course! Saving up for your children and your retirement so as not to be a burden on others, paying your own way, paying your taxes, respecting the property rights of others, respecting law and authority.....all ........."white supremacist", innit?
One of the slogans of BLM as they sack cities in the US is actually "Looting is Justice".
In a nutshell, out of their own mouths!
The Ant & The Grasshopper.
An ant and a grasshopper lived in the same field.
During the summer the ant works all day and night bringing in supplies for the winter, and he prepares his home to keep him warm during the cold months ahead.
Mean while, the grasshopper hops and sings, eats all the grass he wants and procreates.
Come winter, it gets bitterly cold and the grass dies. The ant is well fed and warm in his house, but the grasshopper has not prepared for the winter, so he dies, leaving a whole horde of little grasshoppers without food or shelter.
The moral of the story is that one should work hard to ensure that you can take care of yourself.
The African Version.
The first part of this story is the same, but because it now happens in Africa, there are a few complications of course.
The starving offspring of the grasshopper demanded to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed, while next door they are living in terrible conditions without food and proper clothing.
A TV crew promptly shows up and broadcasts footage of the poor grasshoppers, contrasting this with footage of the ant, snug in his comfortable home with a pantry full of food. The public in the neighbouring fields are stunned at what they see.
How can it be, in this beautiful field, that the poor grasshoppers are allowed to suffer so, while the ant lives in the lap of luxury?
In the blink of an eye, the AGU (African Grasshopper's Union ) is formed. They charge the ant with "species bias" and claim that grasshoppers are the victims of 30 million years of green oppression.
They stage a protest in front of the ant's house and trash the street. When interviewed by the TV crews, they state that if their demands are not met, they will be forced into a life of crime. Just for practice, they loot the TV crew's luggage and hijack their van.
The TRC (Take & Redistribute Commission) justifies their behaviour by saying that this is the legacy of the ant's discrimination and oppression of the grasshoppers.
They demand that the ant apologises to the grasshoppers for what he has done, and that he makes amends for all the other ants in history that have done the same thing to grasshoppers.
PAGAD (People Against Grasshopper Abuse & Distress) states that they are starting a holy war against ants.
The President appears on the 8 o'clock news and says that he will do everything he can for the grasshoppers that have been denied the prosperity they deserve by those who have benefited unfairly during the summer.
The government drafts the EEGAD (Economic Equity for Greens and Disadvantaged) act, retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to employ a proportionate number of green insects, and, having nothing left to pay his back taxes, his home is confiscated by the government for redistribution.
The story ends as we see the grasshoppers finishing off the last of the ant's food while living in their new government house (Which just happens to be the ant's old house) and also the house ends up crumbling down around them because they are too lazy and incompetent to maintain it.
Showing on the TV (which a grasshopper and a couple of friends stole from another ant), the President is standing before a group of wildly singing and dancing grasshoppers, announcing that a new era of "equality" has dawned on the field. The ant, meanwhile, is not allowed to work because he has historically benefited from the field. In his place, ten grasshoppers, who only work two hours a day, steal half of what they actually harvest.
When winter comes again and not enough food has been harvested, they strike and demand a 150% increase in their wages so that they can buy more food, which now has to be imported because the grasshoppers were not productive enough to produce enough food.
The ant packs his things and migrates to another field whilst his other mates have moved even further away, where they start highly successful food companies again and becomes a millionaires by selling food to the grasshoppers in the field from where they came.
(Does this story sound familiar?)
Help I'm A Rock yeah...it's a hard thing to believe...that people will hate you from trying to help them. I've encountered this when trying to volunteer in poor black communities in the USA.
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@@jerushieful It is an allegorical tale for South Africa, only this happens in real life. Right now the government is preparing to take farms - without any payment - from a "certain group" to give to "another group". QED!
Visited Zimbabwe in 2001. I was shocked, how parts of rural (Mount Darwin area) population appeared malnourished in a country that was clearly fertile. How many chose to actively sit in the shade and do nothing. Also impressed by the value doubling rate of the dollar’s in pocket (1-week). Interested that you had to pay to leave the country, cash (US $ only) no change given. This being the governments take on the “ever open hand” of the population in response to seeing an non-indigenous face.
Back in the days of the popular "Feed the World" movement , a good mate of ours, a Post Grad (Ph,D) from a local Agricultural College, helped in a project to grow experimental hybrid ( native to Africa) higher yield grain. He spent some time in Ethiopia trying to get it off the ground, or more correctly IN the ground and growing. After having paid several lots of bribes to different people and departments, to be allowed to help them, he came back rather disillusioned, and with a tape worm from the Addis Abbaba Hilton. The workers they paid, wouldn`t work, the whole thing was a waste of time. Nobody apparently wanted to be helped. Sorry for the second-hand tale, but your post reminded me of those far off days.
Liar! Where did you see the starving population?
@@Africa1000 I'm assuming you were talking about Ethiopia since you didn't specify. As far as Zimbabwe: they are on the brink of starvation RIGHT NOW. Do you know why? They threw all the white farmers out! 🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡🤡
@@American-Plague Another liar..... Where are they starving or on the brink if it ? Manicaland, Rutape, Mutare, Vic Falls, Gweru, Bulawayo?
Just tell me where these starving masses are!
@@Africa1000 Just sent you a video. Watch it. You could also simply Google Zimbabwe on brink of starvation. It's pretty simple.
One night I was at a men's bible study , a homeless healthy , good looking young man came in , I greeted him and asked him to stay and eat with us , which he did As we were talking he said to me I BET YOU LIVE IN A NICE WARM HOUSE . This took me by surprise ! ! ! AND I SAID TO HIM ' ' YES I DO ' ' AND I LOVE IT ! ! ! You see on my farm in 2021 we were short on help and I worked over 110 hours a week [ during harvest time ] .' ' Dam ' ' if I will apologize for enjoying the fruits of my labor for the risks as a farmer and the hours I have to put in to make it . This young healthy man can just get a job , any job , and do the same thing ! ! !
Another great video, it makes me sad to think what Rhodesia could have been today, if things would have played out differently.
Listening to the world service this morning and they had the author Stephen Bourne promoting his book, Black Poppies, Britain's Black Community and the great war., says he is a historian. After going to see the movie 1917 when it came out I went home and did some googling to find out about some points raised in the movie didn't take long to realise the movie 1917 should be listed under fiction. It would be nice if Simon Webb did a video about this topic.
Do you remember the pathetic opener to the gigantic waste of money that was the 2012 Olympics in London when they had a dancing 19th Century black millowner among their ridiculous panorama of "Britishness". Rewriting "history" for political gain has been going on for decades now. The same with "culture" with, for example, the "work" of people such as the rapper Stormzy now being treated reverently and taught in skools as being on a par with Shakespeare. Idiotic political surrender.
@@girlgirl4548 the great irony is that black children should be taught a wholly fictitious account of the role played by black people to massively exaggerate their place in history.....but the same people want white children to be taught the worst possible aspects of there ancestors and how flawed all the great people were.........black children should be empowered but white children should be demoralised................but cycle lanes are 'racist'.
@@girlgirl4548 I remember the NHS crap, didn't really watch the rest of it.
@@davida369 Yes, the "dancing bedsteads" thing, representing "our wonderful NHS, the envy of the whole wide world" was one of the most eye-popping features. Nothing but a very poor medical insurance scheme, paid for by some and serially abused by many, but there you go, mass delusion wins the day, especially when politicians feel there are votes in it!
@Daan Schlüter czcams.com/video/i10ppb_yKUU/video.html
According to those I know who have actually worked in Africa, their Spanish social structure also holds them back.
A black doctor in Rhodesia would receive the same salary as a white one, but have a far lower standard of living because his society obliged him to help out distant relatives, whereas the white doctor just had his immediate family to support. The same applies to all occupations, the successful are expected to help out unsuccessful distant relatives. This reduces the incentives both for the successful, who don't get to enjoy the fruits of their efforts, and the unsuccessful who can scrounge off their relatives rather than making the most of their abilities.
It also raised the expectation that a successful politician will immediately reward his supporters, usually at the expense of opposition supporters.
Isn't this a cultural, rather than a racial issue?
Late Walter Mischel who devised the original marshmallow test for measuring delayed gratification released a book in 2014 called The Marshmallow Test. In it he pointed out one explaining factor: Trust/mistrust of adults. Children who had learned to mistrust adults would invariably eat the one marshmallow, because they didn't trust that there would be the promised two marshmallows later.
A bird in the hand
Horseshit. It was about those inclined to instant gratification as an indication of the likelyhood of future substance abuse and addiction.
@@mikespencer4922 Which was due to being raised by parents whose word couldn't be relied upon. Made promises which they didn't fulfill. The source was early conditions which showed up in the marshmallow test as a preschooler. When he did a follow-up many as adults struggled. His book is worth reading. It added to the extensive research on child development and the importance of the first 5 years.
@@ELee-zv5ud OK. Thanks mate. It makes sense..... Im 66, now 16 yrs sober and still dont trust adults.
Or someone else might steal the marshmallow.
Rip Rhodesia
Admire Kashiri we wuz kings n shiet
@Admire Kashiri Are you Zimbabwean?
@Admire Kashiri because it would be good to hear an opinion from a Zimbabwean native regarding the subject in hand.
Admire Kashiri just like Africa
@Admire Kashiri corruption yes
but sanctions? Why is it that Rhodesia managed to survive despite sanctions? But Zimbabwe cannot? No that is your own leaders passing the buck again. Its up to people such as yourself to change that.
Love your videos! If you keep dropping truth at this rate you will be kicked off CZcams.
Yes, "truth is a lie" when the truth is inconvenient to the "wonderfully diverse and vibrant" propaganda. Can't have the truth!
@Craig Blanche PEOPLE ARE STARVING IN US BECAUSE THE ECONOMY HAS BEEN GOING DOWN AND ITS STILL GOING DOWN.
@Craig Blanche Craig bru... your on the Titanic... it struck an iceberg not an ice cube or icecream. You wont know it because it's dark in so many ways... youre going down.
@Craig Blanche If you really don't know that 50% of Americans are starving and living in poverty then I can only shake my head.
Am an middle class citizen and not happy with what is happening in Zimbabwe. The disease that has both affected and infected us is corruption. My view is if corruption was controlled despite land reform, we will not have reached this trying period. I believe white are not saviors and Gods, not all Europeans and white American countries are free from poverty even in USA its there, as per "whiteness" definition of poverty. There are some African countries who are developing i.e Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana and Ethiopia. No one will develop Africans except for Africans.
I think the culture being described is the same for all of black Africa and not just Rhodesia. My parents emigrated to Nigeria in the 1950's, not long before independence and my brother was born out there. Many black workers wanted to work directly for white employers as that way they knew they'd get paid, and and get paid in full as their countrymen would rob them.
That's incorrect. They preferred to work for the Indians before & Chinese now cos Asians are more honest than Wyts
@@williamwang8352 There were no Asians in West Africa at that time?
@@aib0160 Not Chinese maybe but Indians. But now we, Chinese, are also there. And u aint Blk, ur a Wytboy. Stop pretending 🤣🤣🤣
Black peoples in Africa were not commercial farmers like the white Africans so when Mugabe took the land and gave it to black peoples they starved. This was told to me by an SA white farmer.
But black people are the oldest race on the planet. How then did they exist before the arrival of the white man if according to you, they can't survive on their own????
Just desserts...
The natives have rocks for brains.
I have been binge watching this guys channel for a week and still cant stop watching! Defiantly going to pick up one of his books and recommending him to all my friends!
Correction for you: The African-American Museums recent list of white "racist" traits (e.g., delayed gratification, etc.) were not written by a black American; it was written by a Jewish American woman.
ha makes sense 'every single fing time' ;p
@Let's Travel True, strange how that always happens.
Most black people I know hate this sort of stuff because it's so patronising. These traits are universal, and can be adopted by anyone for success. One example is their claim that strong family structures are an example of 'whiteness'. This claim doesn't make much sense given that most African cultures (Those in Africa) have a very strong sense of family values and of having a tribe to look after one another.
WE are the victims of your boring conspiracy.
THEY are the victims of men who have failed in their own lives and are envious of others more successful.
Every. Single. Time.
This guy is a terrible historian. If you want to know what's happening in Zimbabwe, maybe ask a Zimbabwean?! Or at least someone from the region!! Don't pick an American with no connection to the country.
Greed (corruption) devastated Zimbabwe and South Africa is heading in that direction.
Why do you keep warning about SA. Clearly South Africa will not make the same mistake as Zimbabwe as long as some form of democracy exists. Zimbabwe is an authoritarianist Country run on tribal affiliations.
An African gentleman from Maputo, after independence, said to me "You can't eat a vote!" That is progress!
Cannot believe you're excellent channel is still on air in this current climate of wokeism and cancel culture.
The "ism"-ists will be triggered by this.
Once again, you have ruined their weekend.
Well done, Simon!
@girl girl
One thing is for sure, I am triggered by that horrible picture of you. You look absolutely disgusting. 😉
@G G Why don't Europeans want to live in Europe?
@@thesoulbrother8636 Brilliant response!
@@Africa1000 thanks my friend. 😉
@G G Is that so ? Have a word with the Boers will you. They seem to have a problem with geography!
Petition to improve Greece, Albania, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Belarusse, Venezuela,...all soon to be moved in Africa😮
Without European Colonisation the entire Afro Continent would still be living in mud-huts, and running around naked, throwing spears at each other!
Sure...
@@kenny39able I'm glad to see you agree with me.
Amen to that
Very true. The only civilized place in Africa was the Christian Ethiopian Kingdom!
In my 70 years in Africa I've learnt a few things about the indigenous peoples beliefs. One of which was ancestral worship. The belief that your ancestors controlled what happened in your future. So there is no need to plan ahead.
Who invited them to come and improve the African? Why didn't they stay home and create the paradise in their countries? I can't believe that a living person would try and justify colonial imperialism.
That's ok. Objective people realize Britain was colonized by Romans, Anglo-Saxons (Germanic), Scandinavians, & Normans (France). The difference being Britain was welded into a more advanced society, & Africa fractured along racial lines. Recent history suggests when the unfortunate victims of colonialism oust the whites on racial lines, they then proceed to slaughter fellow blacks on tribal lines. Of course this is entirely the fault of colonialism, as African society accepts no responsibility for it's failings.
Where are the indigenous people from South Africa for example?
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There is nothing in your short film I feel I can disagree with, take Zimbabwe under Mugabe’s stewardship and the systematic destruction of its means of feeding not only itself but other nations in Africa simply because of white farmers who have been murdered and dispossessed of their livelihoods, their farms handed over to Mugabe’s thug following who showed that they couldn’t even run a Facebook farm. The same is happening in South Africa with white farmers, it is toxic hatred of the white man and revenge that fires their hostility. I cannot see a good end for these people the world is more polarised now than any time in history. Our media conveniently overlook what is happening as do our left leaning politicians and party’s it’s all very (f)mucked up.
It's what Rap culture is all about isn't it. To surround yourself with bling without having to lift a finger.
Aren’t the people angry tho that their peoples farms were stolen in the first place. And while it is shown that black farmers have become violent, white farmers have also done the same. One even buried a black farmer alive and he almost died until someone found out. There really should be talks about a resolution instead of one group taking all of it.
Stephen Chappell that doesn’t make any sense because that’s also the mentality of a rich person in general. They surround themselves in gold, diamond necklaces, rings barely lifting a finger in their company or other means of wealth. That part of rap culture is just about getting rich through music but there are many parts of rap culture that focus solely on making music or telling their stories.
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Yes you have a point. Rich white people also surround themselves with bling. It's more mainly the something for nothing culture which Rap seems to promote which works to the detriment of black kids in particular. In the US African Americans are conscious of this and are trying to put forward better role models for their kids.
One Punch101 they set up the truth and reconciliation commission to make some sort of peace with what happened during apartheid but you have agitators like Josef Molima who are not interested in this and actively talk of killing the white man which they do with covert state sponsorship. It seems the only resolution is genocide alas.
Anyone who has not lived in Africa for a long while cannot possibly understand. I have been here for over 40 of my 73 years. There is amongst many - not all - a total and deep-seated mental inability to comprehend how the modern world must work for benefit of productivity, industry, science etc etc - all Western notions - must operate to be sustainable and to spread benefits widely.
You can analyse this to the nth degree and come up with all manner of complex pseudo- scientific theories, but this is a futile endeavour. One needs to get to grips with the many millennia of tribal culture and remembering that this was probably little different in Europe a thousand years ago or more.
Yet European white people managed to throw off that cramped, inward-looking, stifling and communistic (in the true communal or collectivisr sense where individualism is a sin) culture whilst African blacks in large part have not fully done so yet - and many not at all!
Many in the younger age groups, as a result of education, are trying I believe to dispense with a lot of this, but it is deeply ingrained in the psyche and along with it go many very strange and frankly dangerous, primitive beliefs, superstitions and practices. South Africa for instance legally recognises as "medical practitioners" what we might call "witch doctors" who in law have equal status as actual trained medical doctors!
In a simplistic nutshell, Africa does not work because it's people do not understand how the world works. Indeed they try often to reshape the modern world to suit their primitive belief systems even whilst observing the chaos and failure these attempts bring!
That's why it's always referred to as the dark continent
The children's marshmallow test. In northern countries we need to plan and prepare for long cold winters and delaying gratification was a matter of life or death.
Why were Egypt, Babylon, Greece, and Rome more advanced than ancient Britain and Scandinavia?
Really enjoy your videos. Thank you.
Rhodesia was already independent before 1980. In 1980 a government, that with all of it's failings and shortcoming, that did allow freedom and respected individual rights, was replaced by a Marxist Regime that rejected the ideas of freedom of expression and individual rights, with the bad outcomes well described here. Whatever shortcomings Rhodesia did have, it was not a colony. It was an independent country. The Marxists didn't free Rhodesia from a colonial master, the took a free country and turned it into a cruelly indifferent dictatorship. ;-)
@Mfalme Mtukutu They weren't ' settlers '. They were born there. They were natural citizens. ;-)
Whether they've improved their situation or not, it's their ship to navigate. We ought to keep our snouts out of it. We can have fair trade with them, encourage sustainable birthrates, but otherwise leave them to it. Our own nations are a mess.......they should be our focus.
Or, here's an idea, the globalist corporations championing unlimited mass invasion of our decent Western civilisations can go and invest instead in some hellhole on that continent, without rule of law, with limitless graft and corruption, without stability, etc, etc. I'm sure they'll just love the first-hand experience of the "culture" they promote and that all the rest of us are being obliged to swallow as our own societies are destroyed and these same companies reap the profits from that destruction.
@@girlgirl4548
The federal reserve and the globalists are knowingly destroying the West. They're faceless people we don't vote for, involved in treacherous, criminal enterprises. We'll never stop them until we unite and have the numbers.
@Admire Kashiri
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@@girlgirl4548 Some of you guys sure like blaming people.
Agree. 👍😃
You nailed it. Self-control and delayed gratification are the number one cultural factor making some societies more stable and economically successful than others. It's about culture, not race: tropical cultures usually didn't have an incentive for these values since food was available year round. And people hold on to their cultural values tenaciously over generations, even when those values are no longer practically advantageous.
Eric Rosenfeld . Climate dictates how we are wired economically.
Race cannot be ruled out unfortunately - thousand of generations of segregated evolution can cause all kinds of genetic differences, including ofcourse cognitive ones.
But I agree that cultural change takes quite a few generations too.
Self control and delayed gratification are aspects of intelligence. IQ. Thus, biological, not cultural.
@@williambeaumont1312 the Singapureans live in a rather tropical area of the glibe yet they don't behave like other also former colonies.
It's genetic. IQ is 80% genetic, and culture comes from collective intelligence. All the fools in denial of this are merely enabling further dysfunction, which results in widespread suffering and death. So all the bleeding-hearts are actually facilitating the worse and worse suffering by being childishly delusional and clinging to feel-good narratives.
They are not white virtues they are agricultural societies virtues which also exist in Africa particularly northern Africa
Went from a bread basket to basket case 🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭
decay in post colonial Africa has nothing to do with race and everything to do with that fact that liberators were socialists. hence the decline because it is inherent in socialism
Well said
It has everything to do with culture, one practiced by Europeans and the opposite by West Africans.
Your correct about Africa I lived inany southern African countries during the 70s and 80s which were then thriving. It's incredibly sad how quickly they have been turned into third world countries.
Where did you live? In Soweto Bantustan, other Non-Wyt areas??
If you take the delayed gratification argument too far, Simon, I have a bunch of heather to sell you.
Otherwise - seen with my own eyes. I saw a line of large, modern but derelict fishing trawlers on Lake Malawi. They had been financed with bank loans. I was told the skippers made plenty of money, but spent it all on advancing their social status, such as spending a lot of time in bars and clubs and acquiring a culture-appropriate number of girlfriends. When they failed to service their loans, they went out of business. I also watched people collecting protein from the lake less efficiently, by standing on the shore line and sweeping an open weave basket from side to side in the clouds of flying insects, which they subsequently compressed, cooked and ate.
His Excellency President for Life Doctor Hastings Banda was in charge at the time, though I must have shortened his official title since I was there. The country was a peaceful and happy place, being fortunately devoid of natural resources worth fighting wars for.
Another custom was that women entered a man's office by crawling on their hands and knees.
Rhodesia and South Africa were BOTH toppled so as the Western and Communist countries could obtain Chromite ore (refined into Chromium) for much cheaper pricing. Facts.
This reminds of a film called Idiocracy.
My Oupa fought in the Rhodesian Bush War and lived in Rhodesia until Zimbabwe was formed. My mom was born in 1978, two years before. They fled to South Africa in 1979. My oupa now works in Malawi, a country north of Zimbabwe that the majority of you might recognize better as Nyasaland. He is very happy driving between farms all over the country to help them manage agricultural production.
You use the term Oupa.
A true child of Africa :)
@Admire Kashiri it's Afrikaans my friend, the white tribe
@Admire Kashiri So President Trump who is of Dutch decent is still a Dutchman in your eyes?
Didn't communism and massive governmental corruption also play a huge role?
The British actively supported socialist programmes in Tanzania and Kenya. In hindsight this was the patronising bigotry of low expectations. At the time the British were trying to instill a humanitarian mindset in the newly independent countries.
Frank Marshall-Davis . Yes. During the time of the guerrilla war the insurgents were backed by China and the USSR who supplied all their military gear as well as their ideology. It has paid off for China.
@Admire Kashiri thats because Simon is been honest and not sugar coating this particular pill so save your feeling .Its a brave thing to do sticking to the facts at the moment as im sure he gets called a rascist by your sjw's and low life muppets who have no idea about world history.
@Admire Kashiri Call him what you like. It's your opinion but these aren't Simons opinions these are facts .Please before wasting my time again watch the.clip and fact check everything .For me ive watched this and I cant fault Simon on anything he has to say but good luck you might discover a rich vein of Sub Saharan history.
@Admire Kashiri if you are so certain show me "your evidence"or stfu.
I've no idea whether delayed gratification is a black trait or not however I've been in the situation to notice that white people at the bottom of the social scale tend to be less likely to delay gratification which goes a long way to keeping themselves at the bottom.
Trouble we have now ,especially in Britain with its benefit system is that there are lots,not a minority but lots of people who are able to work but won't because they will always be looked after so they don't worry about delaying gratification ,they have instant gratification everyday. These people are cash poor but they are not as poor as the left would have you think when you work out just what gets paid for them by the state but then again lots of hard working people are cash poor once they have paid there dues and demands and recieve little or no help
@@shaundempsy645 Maybe in 50 years.
Mr Webb an Arab Islamic historian in 10 or 12 th century described how African never save up food form post rain harvested instead, ate and party till there no food left, they bothered there neighbors for food.
In fact what specific tribes did that Arab Islamic historian visited?
I read the Bible from Genesis to Revelations in the 1970's. Having grown up on a farm I understood the metaphors and the concept of taking care of your crops and live stock with an eye on the future. This provided the basic needs of everyone: Food, Clothing, Shelter. You are absolutely correct in that aspect. It was the Judeo-Christian world view that propelled the world into the industrial revolution and prosperity unknown for all of human history. That word view is now condemned as Evil. Starvation is the result.
Could you make a video on the non-failure that is Botswana? As far as I've read, the founder of Botswana did a competent job in instilling democracy and solid enough institutions to help the country develop as much as it has even after he stepped down (even with the impact of the AIDS epidemic).
The Museum of African American History put it out quite bluntly, the values in both white and black communities show significant differences and their results are quite telling. However, there are exceptions to the rule. Unlike the Nigerians that Britain receives, the Nigerians that migrate to the US are by far one of the most successful groups in the country with one of the highest per capita incomes and academic achievement scores. The differences between Nigerian immigrants plus their descendants and the native African American community come down to values. Nigerian-American families typically have both parents in the household and instill values in their children that prioritize education, hard work ethic, and social responsibility. The fact that the Nigerians that migrate to the US are generally middle and upper class helps create a base of stability for the nuclear families that they establish. These values can be found in Chinese-American, Korean-American, Indian-American, Cuban-American, etc. households. Contrast that with the African American community where 74% of households have no father figure present and where most births are out of wedlock. This translates to poor educational, social, and economic performances (not to mention the disproportionate amount of crime that is committed in their communities).
The clever thing the king of Botswana did was to not dismantle any of what the Brits had built there in colonial times.
Meanwhile, Nigeria is being brain-drained by American universities looking for black students and academics to fill their diversity quotas.
I agree but there is a very significant factor that you have missed (and Simon has missed). It is almost never considered when talking about the Africans. This is the difference between the tribes or ethnic groups in Africa.
Africa is the most diverse continent in the world. In Nigeria for example 3 very different tribes make up 70% of the population and they are very distinct in behaviour and identity. In Zimbabwe the two main tribes, Shona and Ndebele are radically different people.
I don't know how much these peoples share the traits Simon talks about but I do think it should be considered when talking about their success or otherwise in the diaspora.
Botswana is perhaps simply the exception that proves the rule.
There are very, very few success stories in Africa, let's be honest.
@@73elephants What institutions? The British didn't even care to make Bechuanaland a proper colony. It was just a barren wasteland to them. I like that one of the countries in Africa least affected by colonialism is one of the continent's success stories. This is all thanks to its black leadership.
@@girlgirl4548 And why is that? Read my other submissions.The poorest countries in Africa today are former French colonies that are still living in French neocolonialism. Burkina Faso, a former French colony could have become like Botswana if France (with the help of the US) didn't assasinate its first democratically elected president, Thomas Sankara. The French backed a coup that installed their puppet, Blaise Compaoré who would end up being a brutal dictator that ruled the country for 27 years until 2014, when the people revolted.
Just like South Africa, thanks Mr Mandela
Your comments on delayed gratification are interesting and looking at the work undertaken I think are accurate at the time. However, I think there is an argument that the younger white generation globally are increasingly moving towards instant gratification and not wishing to plan for any long term future.
It would be interesting to see how children today would react.
@@Jonny_Does_Breaks I agree, it would be great to try those experiments again and see how the generations have changed. What do you think the outcome would be?
I was thinking exactly the same thing as I watch Simon`s excellent video. When we were young, people saved up for stuff, or were given relatives` old furniture for starters. We also planned our families...shock horror...until we could afford to feed and clothe them on the income we had. Even Hire Purchase was known as the Never Never and largely frowned upon. Now everyone has so much debt hanging round their necks and, it seems, nothing for a rainy day. It`s become a way of life. Are we, as a society, getting dumber, more dependent on State Handouts? Is it a deliberate plan?
@@simonbroddle754 I would expect to see a move towards instant gratification, with newer generations.
I am 40, my peers generally have more in common (regarding social values etc) with 60 year olds than 20 year olds.
only have to look at who's breeding and who isn't, our best certainly ain't breeding(As much) and alot of white males(smarter/more successful) are opting out all together
Yes, breadbasket to basket case. I witnessed the transformation. Enough to bring one to tears.
There is an Italian film "Africa Addio" (1966) which was filmed over 1962 - 64 which charts the end of colonialism in Africa. It's worth a look although the full Italian version has no subtitles and the US version was edited quite heavily. Both are available on the internet. Be warned it is quite tough viewing at times and not for reasons of "white guilt". It was rarely if ever shown in the UK and it shows in brutal and gory detail what happened once white rule ended there and it was not bucolic happiness unfortunately. To give an idea there is footage of mercenaries fighting, summary execution, the aftermath of tribal massacres, unrestricted hunting of wild animals (many of which are now endangered and you can see why) and none of it is censored.
The makers had no allegiance with the British Empire and the UK so it is unlikely to have been biased but you can see why it was probably not shown in the UK. It does, however, provide an interesting counter point to the popular liberal idea that all things bad in Africa stemmed from white colonialism and things could only get better afterwards.
the "colonialism caused this" argument has worn itself out. it's been over 40 yrs for most of africa.
I have a copy somewhere & will dig it out for another watch. Of the many mouth drying moments one tattooed on the retina was the Arabs of Zanzibar being marched into the sea by their new Tanzanian masters. Where was Julius Nyerere on that day?!
I doubt there will ever be a statue of Ian Smith in Zimbabwe. Just as there will never be a statue of Enoch Powell in England.
It can’t not be noticed that England, which destroyed Rhodesia, will end someday in the same place.
Those who chose security over liberty deserve neither.
@Monica Frances Thornton
One thing is for sure, whte people should not be given the opportunity to decide no ones security or liberty in someone else's land where their whte ancestors killed, stole land from the natives and tried imposed whte supremacy ideology. Cheers🍸
@Joepie De poepie Your statement makes absolutely NO SENSE. You tried, try harder.
Cheers🍸
@IM HO You have a whte colonial guttersniping mindset my friend. Whether its the khoisan, bantu.... etc, they are all blk Africans and they are indigenous to the continent. The only ppl who aren't indigenous is you euro-thieve-lands. Cheers🍸
@IM HO I will say it again to you. You have a guttersniping colonial mindset. All of those "inventions" you mutants love to claim you developed independently....actually had input from other nonwhte ppl including blk ppl. You have a false historical narrative of your ppl in terms of achievements. You words have fallen on flat ears.....because that's what they are.....just words, there is nothing encouraging about them so please keep them to yourself. Cheers🍸
@IM HO Then don't!!!!! Now run away from the truth like you ppl always do when you hear it.
Cheers🍸
The consept of foreward planning eludes africans. So in every case in Africa (except Botswana), the country is quickly used up in terms of infrastructure. Greed, corruption and tribalism destroy everything.
The thing to remember is that all areas occupied by current populations are the product of colonization by those populations at some point in time. No one came from where they currently live at some point in their past.
At this point in time, China is colonizing Africa. Hopefully they enjoy that more.
J Denmark. China is colonising everywhere don't worry!!
Worry about Chinese influence in Europe. Okay? Their new silk road plan also includes Europe too.
J Denmark . There is no such thing as a native population. We all came originally from somewhere else. Originally we started from a mountain in Turkey and some guy who arrived from somewhere by boat.
Good luck China 😁😁😁😁
Most African countries have had rapid declines in their economies since independence.
Most of these nations are plagued by corruption,nepotism,tribalism, politicising every aspect of life & religious beliefs ,which have contributed to the rising inflation ,high standard of living and totalitarian regimes oppressing people.
It interestingly people still can't see the implications these actions are having on most countries and they continue to sing songs of praise for people that are misappropriating their taxes while having their countries slowly choking on foreign debt.
The Smithsonian should be ashamed for making that list. They were harpooned and satirized and took it down and left a comment trying to explain why they developed such a racist list. Two thirds of that list were success strategies. Africans who come to the US are our second most successful immigrant group. They seem to obtain the American dream.
Can you elaborate on the source of information for the most successful immigrant groups. Is it just 3 groups Asian, Hispanic, African & is it modern immigrants or people who have lived there for hundreds of years?
It’s a disgrace that they did
Paul Hanafin “The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America”. It’s a well written book.
That is actually quite right and that is because much of the so called 'African American' narrative the seems to apply to those black people who are actually American and not African at all is simply ignored because the nonsense politics that goes with it has not set in, in short the USA is better for these newcomers that Africa.
The most successful recent immigrant groups to USA are highly qualified Chinese, followed by Russians and East Europeans.
Africans go to North America, Europe and Australasia to scrounge. Now descendants of the European Colonialists have left Africa, China will take Africa over. Thank goodness for that. China will teach Africans to behave like adults.
I recommend the book The Great Betrayal by Ian Smith. Mugabe a member of the Shona tribe was responsible for the death of 40,000 Matabele tribe. He also sold the country's entire stock of wheat. Two years ago Zimbabwe unemployment rate was 95% and they are asking the rest of the world to bail them out, Cat Mansell
The reasons for observed genetically determined differences between social attitudes of those who inhabit equatorial regions and those in temperate zones are discussed by Professor Steve Jones in his book 'In the Blood'. See pages 179 and onwards. Briefly the cause is evolutionary adaptation to the climate. If you live in a zone with a short growing season forward planning is essential and guarding the produce explains for instance all those 'brochs' in northern Scotland. They were food stores, not forts.
Wonderful to hear someone speak the truth, we all know it but many too cowardly to speak it - or - are incapable of independent thought
Or maybe it was just bad leaders... not necessarily about race. Around the time of Zimbabwean independence the Soviet union was being poorly managed and disregarded the welling being of their people and their leadership was white. Revolutionary and worst of all communist don't make for great leaders. Botswana next door fair far better then Zimbabwe so I don't think it can be chopped up to only race.
They can't understand nuance and complex argument. It's all black and white to them. Rhodesia is their fantasy that gets them through the night.
@Rob Pike because most of their countries have only existed for like 40 years and expecting groups of people who we happily murdering eachother before colonialism to just get along after was a stupid idea and the rawandan genocide and the 1st and 2nd congo war show that
Spot on👌the most truth I've heard spoken about Africa in a long time.
Another great video sir..
And a topic that definitely needs more attention and inspection..
As someone who used to farm, delayed gratification is a massive part of farming, even to the point where you are setting the farm up for the next generation. Farmers do things like buying neighbouring land, knowing it's going to take 2 or 3 years before they start getting returns on that land. Even animal breeding, you keep your best animals and sell off the worst, so you are essentially, keeping the ones that would otherwise make you the most money straight away. If delayed gratification is a White thing and it's complete lack a Black thing, this reduces black people to hunter gatherers. Farming started in the middle east, so it's nether a Black or White thing, it's just something people do to live. Putting a capital letter ideology on it only makes people who don't need to stave, stave.
Yes, I read somewhere that it's difficult to sell health insurance in Africa. They just say they are not ill.
Rhodesia was the breadbasket of Africa, it was a tiny country on the continent at that time. since 1980 it became quite fast a hellhole. Nothing is produced and people get by being not dead.That is what communist leaders will get you. The GB government promoted Mugabe as revenge that the war hero Smith wouldnt cowtow to colonial rule. He was supported by SA on the down low, but SA fell to communism when mandela took power. Africa today is more volatile and dangerous for people to visit than ever before.