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On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:19:14 -0500, Suburbanaristic
<Musselman@wohoo.com> wrote:

>I've often wondered this myself...
>
>**I've never been to Africa but I know that it's a more culturally and 
>politically diverse place than we in the West often give it credit for. 
>We say "African" as if it accurately, or at least adequately, captures 
>everything about that vast continent. I understand the complaint. 
>Liberals and conservative alike do it. We can talk about it at length if 
>you like. But...
>
>
>Why on Earth do Hillary Clinton et al. think that Africa � never mind 
>African "tribes" � are a compelling philosophical and political role 
>model for the United States of America? Africa? Africa? At least when 
>they invoke Europe as a public policy North Star they have in mind a 
>first world economy and government. But Africa?
>
>On what conceivable grounds is it warranted to say, "What would the 
>Africans do?" Even on the wishy-washy proverbial terrain Clinton is 
>usually dealing with � "children," "villages," etc � is there any 
>empirical basis for arguing that the African Way is superior to our own? 
>Maybe there are studies that show "Africans" are happier than Americans 
>� when the former aren't dying of malnutrition or medieval health care, 
>or desperately trying to emigrate to the West, no doubt. But even if 
>such studies exist, I doubt that any of the Africaphiles have that sort 
>of thing in mind when they talk about the ancient Wisdom we should 
>borrow from over there.
>
>Even more fascinating: why do so many people uncritically accept these 
>appeals to African wisdom?
>
>http://tinyurl.com/27vnlq

If you got out more, and learned some things about Africa, (More than
you learned from watching, "Tarzan", you might understand.   I have
friends from a number of African Countries, Nigerians, Sudanese,
Kenyans, South Africans, and more.

I realize that I have a head start on you, having trained people from
some of those countries to be truck drivers, but others I know outside
of being a trainer.

If we only associate ourselves with white rednecks, we are not likely
to know much about the real world, or even our own country.

Ron