Drusilla's Imperfection

Donzman, please try and be sensitive to other people's culture. Even if what you are saying is true
(which I doubt), you shouldn't make blanket statements like this. Haba

This is certainly very true. Below is a list of the biggest wars in Europe starting from 500 BC. There are countless minor wars not included. The list for Africa was so small I didn't include it (many of the wars seemed to involve Europeans in one way or another), but you can see it at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts_in_Africa

500–449 BC Greco-Persian Wars
431–404 BC Peloponnesian War
395–387 BC Corinthian War
390–387 BC Celtic invasion of Rome
371 BC Battle of Leuctra
362 BC Battle of Mantinea
343–341 BC First Samnite War
334–323 BC Wars of Alexander the Great
327–304 BC Second Samnite War
323–280 BC Wars of the Diadochi
298–290 BC Third Samnite War
264–241 BC First Punic War
240-238 BC Mercenary War
218–202 BC Second Punic War
215–205 BC First Macedonian War
200–196 BC Second Macedonian War
171–168 BC Third Macedonian War
149–146 BC Third Punic War
146  BC Battle of Corinth
136–71   BC Roman Servile Wars
136–132 BC First Servile War
104–100 BC Second Servile War
73–71 BC Third Servile War
1066 Norman conquest of England
1337–1453 Hundred Years' War
1455–1485 Wars of the Roses
1496–1499 Russo–Swedish War of 1496–1499
1522–1559 Habsburg-Valois Wars
1554–1557 Russo–Swedish War of 1554–1557
1558–1583 Livonian War
1568–1648 Eighty Years' War
1590–1595 Russo–Swedish War of 1590–1595
1594–1603 Nine Years' War (Ireland)
1610–1617 Ingrian War
1618–1648 Thirty Years' War
1641–1649 Wars of Castro
1641–1653 Irish Confederate Wars
1642–1651 English Civil War
1644–1650 Scottish Civil War
1656–1658 Russo–Swedish War of 1656–1658
1667–1668 War of Devolution
1667–1683 Great Turkish War
1688–1691 Williamite War in Ireland
1700–1721 Great Northern War
1701–1713 War of the Spanish Succession
1733–1738 War of the Polish Succession
1739–1740 War of Jenkins' Ear
1740–1748 War of the Austrian Succession
1741–1743 Russo–Swedish War of 1741–1743
1756–1763 Seven Years' War
1788–1790 Russo–Swedish War of 1788–1790
1789–1799 French Revolution
1798 Irish Rebellion of 1798
1792–1815 Napoleonic Wars
1808–1809 Finnish War
1848–1866 Italian Independence wars
1848–1849 First Italian Independence War
1859 Second Italian Independence War
1866 Third Italian Independence War
1854–1856 Crimean War
1866–1866 Austro-Prussian War
1870–1871 Franco-Prussian War
1877–1878 Russo–Turkish War
1893–1896 Cod War of 1893
1897 First Greco–Turkish War
1912–1913 Balkan Wars
1914–1918 World War I
1916 Easter Rising
1917–1920 Estonian Liberation War
1918–1919 Czechoslovakia-Hungary War
1918 Finnish Civil War
1918–1920 Russian Civil War
1919–1921 Irish War of Independence
1922–1923 Irish Civil War
1936–1939 Spanish Civil War
1939-1940 Winter War
1939–1945 World War II
1958 First Cod War
1972–1973 Second Cod War
1974 Turkish Invasion of Cyprus
1975–1976 Third Cod War
1994–1996 First Chechen War
1991 War in Slovenia
1991–1995 Croatian War of Independence
1992–1995 War in Bosnia and Herzegovina
1996–1999 Kosovo War
1999–present Second Chechen War
2001 Conflict in Macedonia
2001 Conflict in Southern Serbia

@Donzman



AA would not be in America had their Ancestors not been forced to immigrate. C/A's who are now legal residents and have given birth to their children in America and have been in America for some years now, would not be here had they not willingly immigrated. Their children would not have been born here had they not willingly let their children be born here. Still, the children they had are indigenous to a place in Africa or just Africa period.  Only difference between AA and C/A in this case is one came by force and one came willingly.

White people are not indigenous to America, Native Americans are the only ones who are indigenous to America. White people stole America from the Native Americans. Everyone in America accept the Mexicans are immigrants.

If several thousands of Asians, Malaysian, Chinese and Cantonese was stolen off the continent of Asia and brought to Africa to become slaves and 300 hundred years have passed, now they are mixed Malaysian, Chinese and Cantonese and they still live in Nigeria, would you then say they are not original Asians? Would you then say they are not originally indigenous to a place in Asia? 

I can already imagine what you are going to say about the Asian question.


Fusion of what past cultures and Ideas? Sense you know so much, you should have already covered that question instead of giving your vague, know it all response.

Sista,

OK I went back and saw your discussion.

So you are saying that quarrelling between Africans has hindered development drastically.

Can you give an example of this quarrelling?

Good talk, folks!  Wish I had Time to join in!   (^_^)

Keep it clean and remember:  Africa Unite!!!

Now is the time to M.ake O.ur D.estiny!!!

anton

but joinin in with AK47 u got on ur profile is the last thing africa nigeria need now. abeg hang the guns up for good

Sista,

This is a good example but I would just point out that this article was written by Cam Walker - a Liason Officer for Friends of the Earth Australia.

They have their own political agenda which I don't entirely disagree with even though I consider it unrealistic. Like many white Western journalists he's writing for his own people (Australians) and using the sufferings of poor African people to tug on their liberal heart strings.

At this point maybe we should consider whether the suffering of the many justifies the long term economic goals of a developing nation?

Does the ends (African economic power) justify the means?
 

Sista,

But in a wider context he is a white Australian so what the h*ll is he doing going to Africa when he should be evaluating the status of Aborigines in his 'own' country?

To be honest this kind of journalism is hypocritical and it can be seen as a reinforcement of a white liberal power structure in Australian society. He is only desiring - like so many white liberals do in the West - their own political preferences in place of the current republican/democratic/conservative ones. He is using his experience in Nigeria as a leverage to obtain this and conveniently ignoring Aborigines (Black people) in his own country. After all white Australians will want to sublimate their aggression against Aborigines into empathy with the suffering of Nigerians and so project the whole issue out of their continent ("look how them poor black people are suffering in Africa - I'm not a racist of course"). Remember that enviromental concerns amongst whites are inevitably linked to race.

The CIA World Fact Book puts the current GDP per capita for Nigeria at over $3.80 per day. This is only a mean average but it is significantly different from the figures quoted by Walker (which I believe he obtained from the Library of Congress).

 

The means is the majority of people going without until such a point has arrived where political and economic reform has reached a kind of critical mass and everyone in the nation begins to benefit, ie, everyone gets pulled up into a higher standard of living. It's like sacrificing the present for the future. It's basically putting your faith in capitalism.

@Paddy_lo

Have I ever said that slavery was right?. . . 

@paddy_lo

What are you talking about?. . .Nobody here was enslaved and neither was anyboy's parents still living so I don't get it. For all I know, my greatgreand uncle was sold into slavery too. Slavery is in the past bro., you need to realize that. Nobody who is living now experienced it so all this talk makes no sense.

@Donzman


Donzman, if history shows that for three hundred years your ancestors were enslaved, no matter how much you try to sugar coat that fact, it is going to take more than three hundred years to wash away the affects that 300 years of slavery has taken on the people who descend from those slaves. It is going to take a long time more so to wash away the effects especially due to the directness on behalf of white people who work to keep black people down. I told you this before, if you hurt my family, you hurt me. I don't care if you killed my ancestors and you didn't kill me. When you rape, murder, steal and destroy the history and ancestry of my people, you have done the same thing to me. I won't be forgiving those people who benefit from the hardship of my people so they do not have to apologize for what took place in the past. Also, an apology won't do because after they apologize, they will still have America which they gained from exploiting my people and killing off the natives, they will still have all of the riches they required from the exploitation of my people. I believe in an eye for an eye. I want their asses bankrupt with nothing to show for anything. They deserve to be in the poor house, all of the money and economical prosperity they have is due to the blood, sweat and death of my people. All that white people acquired was acquired dishonestly. Now, I live to see them living good while my people suffered and my people of today are lost.

@Paddy_Lo 


Thank you for your understanding. 



@Topic

Geez, I didn't know this topic was back on with discussion, is any one else not receiving their notifications from Nairaland for the new postings that come in? I haven't been receiving mines for a long time.

one drop of black blood makes you black, by the white mans law meaning that even my great grand kids(even if all marry only white) will get their share.
You cannot suddenly change a law

lol@ mamput

She wants a share of the loot too, 

one drop of white blood makes u evil! dnt yall think!

god bless white

gpd bless black