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Gerrard59:
China is actually a consuming nation, but the wealth to be at par with Western countries, especially the US, has not been attained. China currently consumes a lot of French and German goods. The consumption of these goods delivered huge profits to German carmakers and French luxury goods makers. Na why Bernard Arnault rise for wealth rankings. Additionally, to a significant extent, American farmers before the trade war by the US depended on China for continuous consumption. As the trade war continued, the Chinese diverted to South America where farmers are delighted and getting richer.

The Chinese have the potential to be a major consumer as the US provided more Chinese get richer. This is why the CCP is investing across high-valued sectors. However, the West is apprehensive because this erodes their influence and power. I applaud and admire the Chinese for their sheer hard work, persistence and determination. An instance is electric vehicles. Apart from Tesla, most Western carmakers never took it seriously, but the Chinese did. And should EVs become popular as envisaged, they (the Chinese) stand to benefit a lot. Ironically, Western nations are at the forefront of stopping this ascent because it will displace them from the top. Whether China refuses to be bullied is left to be seen.

The same applies to India. People have the means to consume when they have money and are at the apex of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. So, we cannot expect ordinary Indians to consume like Americans when they have not solved the basic needs of life.

Another thing that scares the West is so-called climate change. As the rest of the world gets richer, they will begin to copy Western consumption patterns. This has been noticed as China got richer. They burnt more fossil fuels and consumed goods regardless of whether it affected the climate. So, Westerners are antsy that should other parts of the world get richer as them, the planet is in big trouble because these people would consume just as they (West) did. That is partly why few elites are looking into other planets. Their fears are further exacerbated as the proportion of Whites dwindles while others, such as Pakistan, India, Indonesia and Africa, balloon.

If you can access this article's comment section: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/10/28/world/africa/africa-youth-population.html you will read the fears and apprehensiveness in them.



It would especially if the bulk of immigrants are from cultures which are antithetical to Western civilisation. All cultures are not equal. Some cultures are more equal than others. Carry Ibibios to Somalia and move Somalis to Akwa Ibom. In the next decade, Somalia will be a place people will look forward to visiting, whereas Akwa Ibom will turn to a terror-laden society. That is the difference in culture.

Also, people from different cultures tend to make a society unsafe even if that society is prosperous. Prosperity leads to increased safety, but homogeneity plus prosperity solidifies that safety. Norway is safer than France. South Korea is safer than the UK. Why? Both Norway and South Korea are prosperous and homogenous.

The future of an increasingly diversified Western world looks like Brazil, with social tensions here and there. It worsens if a significant proportion of the populace adheres to prehistoric beliefs that slow societal development and advancement.

In the future, I see more Europeans emigrating to Chile, Argentina, New Zealand and Uruguay so they live amongst their type. Again, if you notice, these countries are safer than most immigrant societies and communities in Europe.

Stuff is Africa can only develop if we invent stuff like solar and electric cars ourselves. We need to steer our youths into science and technology.
We need a Yoruba Elon musk and a Thomas Edison from Anambra

Apart from that, most of them live on junk food, especially the poor class there,this affects the quality of their DNA and reproduction. They are easily overwhelmed by diseases and harmful viruses because of their weather compared to ours...their lack of reproductive ability is their biggest challenge.

Philosopher1979:
Stuff is Africa can only develop if we invent stuff like solar and electric cars ourselves. We need to steer our youths into science and technology.
We need a Yoruba Elon musk and a Thomas Edison from Anambra

You want people who have not been able to provide adequate electricity to themselves to produce electric cars?

Y'all overate yourselves too much. Accept the position you see the black man because we no reach whites or East Asians. We cannot even develop and manage a city like Dubai, let alone produce electric cars.

creativehubb:
Apart from that, most of them live on junk food, especially the poor class there,this affects the quality of their DNA and reproduction. They are easily overwhelmed by diseases and harmful viruses because of their weather compared to ours...their lack of reproductive ability is their biggest challenge.

Bearing fewer children results from being wealthy and has nothing to do with nutrition, weather or diseases. Whites have the least communicable disease infection rates, followed by East Asians due to a superior health care system. They get infected with communicable diseases when they are in the tropics. Africans ought to have surpassed that stage if we had built a functioning and standardised health care system.

A good example is Singapore which is also in the tropics but has fewer cases of malaria, and the birth rate is also low. Japanese eat more nutritionally balanced foods than whites, but also suffer from a low fertility rate. Fertility rate has nothing to do with weather or type of food. Israel has the highest fertility rate among white-dominated countries because of conservative Jews who breed a lot of children.

This is measuring up to whites by blacks is amusing. Blacks cannot and should not measure up to white people. They have advanced beyond what you consider to be "development". They are not our mates.

Person wey never experience wetin be constant electricity go dey measure shoulder with person wey dey explore Mars.