[Warning: disturbing concent] Why do Africans do this?

[Titty_Twister]

@mbwakali

This! There’s a Mzungu professor who ‘concluded’ that Africans in general lack abstract thinking skills. He’s even written a book author of Racism, Guilt, Self-Hatred and Self-Deceit.

2014 blog post …
Very long read!
Morality and Abstract Thinking – How Africans may differ from Westerners from Amren.com | Halcyon Initiative

Excerpt:

Morality and Abstract Thinking – How Africans may differ from Westerners from Amren.com
How Africans may differ from Westerners

by Gedaliah Braun

I am an American who taught philosophy in several African universities from 1976 to 1988, and have lived since that time in South Africa. When I first came to Africa, I knew virtually nothing about the continent or its people, but I began learning quickly. I noticed, for example, that Africans rarely kept promises and saw no need to apologize when they broke them. It was as if they were unaware they had done anything that called for an apology.

It took many years for me to understand why Africans behaved this way but I think I can now explain this and other behavior that characterizes Africa. I believe that morality requires abstract thinking—as does planning for the future—and that a relative deficiency in abstract thinking may explain many things that are typically African.

What follow are not scientific findings. There could be alternative explanations for what I have observed, but my conclusions are drawn from more than 30 years of living among Africans.
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A public service billboard in South Africa. Note old tire and gas can.

My first inklings about what may be a deficiency in abstract thinking came from what I began to learn about African languages. In a conversation with students in Nigeria I asked how you would say that a coconut is about halfway up the tree in their local language. “You can’t say that,” they explained. “All you can say is that it is ‘up’.” “How about right at the top?” “Nope; just ‘up’.” In other words, there appeared to be no way to express gradations.

A few years later, in Nairobi, I learned something else about African languages when two women expressed surprise at my English dictionary. “Isn’t English your language?” they asked. “Yes,” I said. “It’s my only language.” “Then why do you need a dictionary?”

They were puzzled that I needed a dictionary, and I was puzzled by their puzzlement. I explained that there are times when you hear a word you’re not sure about and so you look it up. “But if English is your language,” they asked, “how can there be words you don’t know?” “What?” I said. “No one knows all the words of his language.”

I have concluded that a relative deficiency in abstract thinking may explain many things that are typically African.

“But we know all the words of Kikuyu; every Kikuyu does,” they replied. I was even more surprised, but gradually it dawned on me that since their language is entirely oral, it exists only in the minds of Kikuyu speakers. Since there is a limit to what the human brain can retain, the overall size of the language remains more or less constant. A written language, on the other hand, existing as it does partly in the millions of pages of the written word, grows far beyond the capacity of anyone to know it in its entirety. But if the size of a language is limited, it follows that the number of concepts it contains will also be limited and hence that both language and thinking will be impoverished.

African languages were, of necessity, sufficient in their pre-colonial context. They are impoverished only by contrast to Western languages and in an Africa trying to emulate the West. While numerous dictionaries have been compiled between European and African languages, there are few dictionaries within a single African language, precisely because native speakers have no need for them. I did find a Zulu-Zulu dictionary, but it was a small-format paperback of 252 pages.

My queries into Zulu began when I rang the African Language Department at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and spoke to a white guy. Did “precision” exist in the Zulu language prior to European contact? “Oh,” he said, “that’s a very Eurocentric question!” and simply wouldn’t answer. I rang again, spoke to another white guy, and got a virtually identical response…

Hio kitu aliambiwa na the two manzis wa Nairobi ilimuuma sana. They were right! Unfortunately, for the Ogas what they said was ubonobo first class

[Nyamgondho]

@Kosmic Karai

I’d say Kenyans are more educated than Indians yet you never see them behave in this sickening way.

Indians do unfathomable things including raping in mobs. Hujui wahindi

[RV_Pundit]

@mwembeno

Nyinyi watu hushtua. I have never understood your thought process. [COLOR=rgb(247, 218, 100)]You see one video of someone doing something stupid and generalize all Africans into one basket. You quickly conclude that such behaviors are instinctually African because of some inferior genetic factor. You haven’t compared with other races. Nyinyi watu hamjawahi ona mob justice ya Waarabua ma Wahindi and see how barbaric those people are.

This is the way the vast majority of Africans have been conditioned to think i.e from a position of inferiority.

People who have formed a world view based on the negativity directed at black people.

[uwesmake]

:D:D:D:D:D elders is something wrong with me ama? coz nimecheka throughout the video

but nataka madem wa mchele waongezwe kwa hio list ya lynching

[LeVoyeur]

@Ngimanene na matharo

@johntez addi gaza msafi fate ndio hii

nimalisi hio musenge.

[mwembeno]

@mbwakali

This! There’s a Mzungu professor who ‘concluded’ that Africans in general lack abstract thinking skills. He’s even written a book author of Racism, Guilt, Self-Hatred and Self-Deceit.

2014 blog post …
Very long read!
Morality and Abstract Thinking – How Africans may differ from Westerners from Amren.com | Halcyon Initiative

Excerpt:

Morality and Abstract Thinking – How Africans may differ from Westerners from Amren.com
How Africans may differ from Westerners

by Gedaliah Braun

I am an American who taught philosophy in several African universities from 1976 to 1988, and have lived since that time in South Africa. When I first came to Africa, I knew virtually nothing about the continent or its people, but I began learning quickly. I noticed, for example, that Africans rarely kept promises and saw no need to apologize when they broke them. It was as if they were unaware they had done anything that called for an apology.

It took many years for me to understand why Africans behaved this way but I think I can now explain this and other behavior that characterizes Africa. I believe that morality requires abstract thinking—as does planning for the future—and that a relative deficiency in abstract thinking may explain many things that are typically African.

What follow are not scientific findings. There could be alternative explanations for what I have observed, but my conclusions are drawn from more than 30 years of living among Africans.
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A public service billboard in South Africa. Note old tire and gas can.

My first inklings about what may be a deficiency in abstract thinking came from what I began to learn about African languages. In a conversation with students in Nigeria I asked how you would say that a coconut is about halfway up the tree in their local language. “You can’t say that,” they explained. “All you can say is that it is ‘up’.” “How about right at the top?” “Nope; just ‘up’.” In other words, there appeared to be no way to express gradations.

A few years later, in Nairobi, I learned something else about African languages when two women expressed surprise at my English dictionary. “Isn’t English your language?” they asked. “Yes,” I said. “It’s my only language.” “Then why do you need a dictionary?”

They were puzzled that I needed a dictionary, and I was puzzled by their puzzlement. I explained that there are times when you hear a word you’re not sure about and so you look it up. “But if English is your language,” they asked, “how can there be words you don’t know?” “What?” I said. “No one knows all the words of his language.”

I have concluded that a relative deficiency in abstract thinking may explain many things that are typically African.

“But we know all the words of Kikuyu; every Kikuyu does,” they replied. I was even more surprised, but gradually it dawned on me that since their language is entirely oral, it exists only in the minds of Kikuyu speakers. Since there is a limit to what the human brain can retain, the overall size of the language remains more or less constant. A written language, on the other hand, existing as it does partly in the millions of pages of the written word, grows far beyond the capacity of anyone to know it in its entirety. But if the size of a language is limited, it follows that the number of concepts it contains will also be limited and hence that both language and thinking will be impoverished.

African languages were, of necessity, sufficient in their pre-colonial context. They are impoverished only by contrast to Western languages and in an Africa trying to emulate the West. While numerous dictionaries have been compiled between European and African languages, there are few dictionaries within a single African language, precisely because native speakers have no need for them. I did find a Zulu-Zulu dictionary, but it was a small-format paperback of 252 pages.

My queries into Zulu began when I rang the African Language Department at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and spoke to a white guy. Did “precision” exist in the Zulu language prior to European contact? “Oh,” he said, “that’s a very Eurocentric question!” and simply wouldn’t answer. I rang again, spoke to another white guy, and got a virtually identical response…

Umeffi tu! Typical racist who was looking for excuses to justify his evil racial prejudice and white supremacism. From the tone, you can clearly see he already had preconceived prejudice before conducting such an unintelligible study.

[Nameberry1]

@mwembeno

Umeffi tu! Typical racist who was looking for excuses to justify his evil racial prejudice and white supremacism. From the tone, you can clearly see he already had preconceived prejudice before conducting such an unintelligible study.

Yes he was trying to substantiate his negative stereotype about us

[kooob]

@mwembeno

Umeffi tu! Typical racist who was looking for excuses to justify his evil racial prejudice and white supremacism. From the tone, you can clearly see he already had preconceived prejudice before conducting such an unintelligible study.

True. He is a European professor who is hell bent on proving africans cant think abstract concepts by asking local idlers. He should have gone to African university and asked literature students and professors.