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Primary Reason for West's Economic Dominance
Don Rizzle:
--- Quote from: King Tech Quadafi on April 11, 2004, 11:08:51 PM ---I always gave the credit to colonialism and the industrial revolution
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hit the nail on the head there, europe has had dominance over the whole world for over a thousand years its only natural that economic wealth will go hand in hand with this.
King Tech Quadafi:
dont know about no thousand years, the Islamic empire was more powerful well into the 1400,s when colonialism started at that time, same time the Ottoman economy started to become stagnated, and the ball was rollin from there
Loganism:
--- Quote from: Krayze-Eyez Killah on April 11, 2004, 07:37:07 PM ---You're dead wrong. Big Surprise.
"Those who say that all cultures are equal never explain why the results of those cultures are so grossly unequal." -- Dr. Thomas Sowell
Why is it, with all the wealth from Oil in the Middle East, there is still such a great deal of poverty, ignorance, and violence? Quit blaming your problems on others, and look at the root. Religious intolerance and the lack of democratic governments are the problem, not America.
Here is another quote to destroy your ignorant and feeble minded argument:
"In terms of natural resources, Africa is the world's richest continent. It has 50 percent of the world's gold, most of the world's diamonds and chromium, 90 percent of the cobalt, 40 percent of the world's potential hydroelectric power, 65 percent of the manganese, millions of acres of untilled farmland as well as other natural resources. Despite the natural wealth, Africa is home to the world's most impoverished and abused people. Of the 41 black African nations, only three (Senegal, Botswana and Mauritius) allow their people the right to vote and choose their own leaders. Only two (Botswana and Senegal) permit freedom of expression and criticism of government policies. In countries like Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Mozambique, Sudan, Chad and others, ethnic genocide has taken the lives of untold millions of innocent victims. Slavery is still practiced in the Sudan and Mauritania." -- Dr. Walter E. Williams
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"Third world countries are rich places, abundant in resources, and many of these countries have the capacity to feed their starving people, the people we always see digging through trash for food on TV and commercials. But, a government run by the rich, such as this one, and traditionally oppressive European states, force the third world into buying overpriced, unnecessary goods, while exporting huge portions of their natural resources."
Then when the countries try to do something to help themselves such as nationalize the banana fields, oil fields, etc, then we attack them and set up a puppet government that won't do such things to hinder our grab on more money.
infinite59:
--- Quote from: King Tech Quadafi on April 12, 2004, 02:24:24 PM ---dont know about no thousand years, the Islamic empire was more powerful well into the 1400,s when colonialism started at that time, same time the Ottoman economy started to become stagnated, and the ball was rollin from there
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Exactly, and it was the gold and silver trade that got the ball rolling economically.
infinite59:
--- Quote from: King Tech Quadafi on April 12, 2004, 02:24:24 PM ---dont know about no thousand years, the Islamic empire was more powerful well into the 1400,s when colonialism started at that time, same time the Ottoman economy started to become stagnated, and the ball was rollin from there
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Exactly, and it was the gold and silver trade that got the ball rolling economically.
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