Afro-Centrism: Making Me Explode With Rage Since Gradeschool

[grumbler]

Cleopatra? Cleopatra was Greek (and had more than enough nose to prove it, if her coins are to be believed) and was born 250 years after the Macedonians had conquered Egypt for themselves and stablished a Greek dinasty. And the Ptolemies married amongst themselves, so she was probably as Greek as Ptolemy I Soter.

She was not Greek. She was a Macedonian, ffs. Why do people insist on confusing the two?

Actually, she was part-Greek, part Macedonian, and part Semetic.  Both of her parents were illegitimate children born to non-Macedonian women.  By the time of her reign, the blood of the Ptolemies was running thin in the royal house (and during all those late reigns, of course, it was often just running).

[The Brain]

Africa could sink in the ocean and the world wouldn't notice. This says a lot about both Africa and the world.

[garbon]

Africa could sink in the ocean and the world wouldn't notice.

Disagree. I  would say that this statement says a lot about you, however.

[The Brain]

Africa could sink in the ocean and the world wouldn't notice.

Disagree. I  would say that this statement says a lot about you, however.

Obviously satellites and seismic instruments would pick up the event and we would actually notice.

[garbon]

Obviously satellites and seismic instruments would pick up the event and we would actually notice.

I stand by my statement.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

I've heard theories that even Michael Jackson was black.

[Neil]

Africa could sink in the ocean and the world wouldn't notice. This says a lot about both Africa and the world.

That's not true.  Africa has many valuable natural resources, many of the world's remaining large mammals, and has something of an emotional value as the cradle of the species.

Now, if the human population of Africa were to be wiped out, people would notice.  However, it'd be more of a 'Thank god that's over with, let's get some real people into those empty lands' sort of thing.  Of course, it'd be better to make it a nature preserve.  Really, Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe and most of Asia should be nature preserves.

[Valmy]

Presently Africa is sparsely populated enough you could make most of it a nature preserve today.

Unfortunately the population is expanding at a rapid rate, but I think it is slowing down and hopefully that can continue so most of Africa can be preserved and does not turn into another Europe or the Eastern US.

[Neil]

Presently Africa is sparsely populated enough you could make most of it a nature preserve today.

Unfortunately the population is expanding at a rapid rate, but I think it is slowing down and hopefully that can continue so most of Africa can be preserved and does not turn into another Europe or the Eastern US.

Too many people.  The number of humans must be reduced into the double-digit range.

[Habsburg]

Cleopatra? Cleopatra was Greek.

Thank you. 

[Razgovory]

Africa could sink in the ocean and the world wouldn't notice. This says a lot about both Africa and the world.

It would make shipping cheaper.