Poorest European Countries/Richest African countries

[Filuwaúrdjan]

That depends on where you live because of high inequality gap. If most people here moved to South Africa, I would guess they would go to the best and safest neighborhoods, which look very appealing and not really much different from most developed places in the world.

Even those are appallingly violent from a European perspective. And I suspect also that people who have grown up being able to go wherever they wish in reasonable safety would feel restricted, even constricted, living in a society where that is not the case. Big cities in the United States in the 70s and 80s were disturbing enough in that sense for visiting Europeans.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

In what way? Do racism magical cause money to materialize in people's hands?

Well, in the history of Africa, quite often.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Well, think about the demographic and economic effct that a certain industry may have had on Western Africa. Said industry didn't just impact the people who were transported themselves, but on the whole economic ecosystem of the region, and that was a major long term impact.

The same... industry... had an impact on other parts of the continent further east as well - a little less intense, but it went on for longer. In both cases it also contributed to long-term centrifugal tendencies (that outlast the... industry... itself, because this is the sort of thing that can't be put back in a box) as certain petty states became the predators of other petty states and peoples.