Discussing Issues in Africa
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I knew a guy that ran a landscaping (go figure) business. He needed labor so he went to a broker who promised legal daily workers. They were all Hispanics. The only stipulation was that he couldn't work the Hispanics with the blacks. When he asked why the broker explained it this way: When the Hispanics are told start time is 7:00am they show up at 6:45 and get their tools and mowers ready. They start at 7:00. When the blacks are told start time is 7:00am they show up at 7:00 and get their tool and mowers ready and get started at 7:15. The Hispanics will migrate to the black's timeline, not the other way around.
A generalization and stereotype? For sure but we all know generalizations and stereotypes are rooted in displayed behavior across ethnic groups.
A generalization and stereotype? For sure but we all know generalizations and stereotypes are rooted in displayed behavior across ethnic groups.
black dog
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While running John Dension's Irrigation dept he hired all the colors from Africa and from every country south of the rio grande. The rules were simple for all of the hourly workers, get along or you will be unemployed and will be be on a plane ride home by tonight. Most of his spanish workers were H2B workers. I never saw any problems between them all.
Kinnakeet
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They dont own a watch so they cant tell time
Kinnakeet
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Negros see things in a different way
Abandoned Shopping Carts, Litter, and the Decline of Black America
The black community’s disengagement from ordinary acts of civic responsibility is harming America as a whole, but mostly, it’s harming blacks. To save their communities, blacks need to reengage with what was once normative polite conduct across American society. To appreciate this point, consider the tales told by abandoned shopping carts and litter.
Shopping carts were invented in Oklahoma in 1937 and changed the face of retailing. No longer were customers limited to what they could carry around the store. Now, they could leisurely stroll through the store without having to worry about how much they could fit in their cloth bag or how tired their arms might grow. Today, we’re largely indifferent about carts because the idea of them is so ingrained in our shopping experience that we can’t imagine a time when they didn’t exist.
As functional as carts are for the shopping experience, however, there’s a different function that they serve that is equally important, but in a completely different context.
Shopping carts serve as a great proxy for observing conscientiousness. What one does with a shopping cart tells a lot about a person. Most stores that have shopping carts have a bin for you to return them, so you don’t have to go all the way back to the actual store. But here’s the thing about shopping carts. You get no compensation for returning them. Nor do you (normally) suffer any consequences for not returning them. The only people impacted by your returning the cart to the bin are others. Returning it is just the right thing to do.
As such, most people return their carts to the bins as one would expect a normal person to do. But others simply leave them in the next spot or put them on the curb next to their car. There are consequences of such behavior, of course, but rarely for the person who left the cart. The cart can take up a space, so someone else must get out of the car and move it to park. It can start rolling in the parking lot and hit a car or a person. Employees must go around and collect those stray carts and return them to the bin or the store.
Another such measure is littering. Littering is another of those little things where the cost of doing the right thing is usually minor, while the consequences for the individual who fails to act are generally nonexistent. Meanwhile, litter has negative consequences for the community, ranging from the cost of pickup to aesthetic issues to clogging drains and polluting waters.
Whether it’s leaving a shopping cart in the middle of a parking lot or throwing trash on the street, both are among the most basic measures of citizenship. Doing what’s right typically takes but a few seconds of the person’s time, and they do so even knowing that it’s rare for anyone to suffer immediate harm if they don’t act.
It’s instructive when one notices that people aren’t taking those few seconds to do the right thing. It’s like the old saying, “If you want to know someone’s character, watch how they treat people who can do nothing for them.” We’ve all seen people who are rude to waiters or store clerks, and usually they’re self-centered jerks. Same thing with shopping carts and litter.
Across the country, every day, you see communities covered in litter and innumerable shopping carts that were not only not returned to the bin but were outright stolen. Here’s the thing: Shopping carts and litter are just the most benign signs of conscientiousness and citizenship. The lack of such betrays itself in far more malignant ways as well, and we’re seeing that across the country, particularly in videos: Spirit Airlines airport counters. Six Flags parks. Carnival Cruise Line ships. Seemingly every restaurant chain in America. Malls. Schools. Subways. And of course, street takeovers. This bad behavior seems to be everywhere, and one segment of society is perpetuating most of it: Blacks.
It appears to be the case that for a very large segment of black America, the ideas of conscientiousness and good citizenship are simply nonexistent.
This might sound like a peripheral issue, but in reality, it’s anything but. It’s what’s called the Tragedy of the Commons, individuals acting in selfish ways that harm society as a whole.
Agree but that doesn't fix the inherent problems of rudeness, laziness, and "I don't care about anyone else" attitudes. Shopping carts are just the physical display of the issues.
black dog
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This Clip, ArchCast and Sargon [ Carl Benjamin ] Discuss the African Woman's Video
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In this video, I explore alternate temporalities from the western linear model of time characterized as mechanical and extractive. Instead, I explore traditional African worldviews. The idea of African concepts of time is something African philosophers have been debating, critiquing, expanding, and questioning for decades, and I give an attempt at a shallow literature review.
Something I forgot to mention in the video:
When Mbiti said he focused on African society before the influence of modernity, he was likely marking a boundary between what he saw as “traditional Africa”, rooted in indigenous religion, community, and a cyclical understanding of time, and the “modern” world which to him as a theologian he probably saw as shaped by colonial contact and Christian missionization. However, as we know, African scholars have critiqued this framing (and so do I) because it constructs a myth of a pure, untouched “traditional Africa,” arguing instead that African life and thought were never static, and that modernity itself was co-produced with Africa.
over 100 yrs of Western Colonization could not MODERNIZE these back wards people [/MEDIA]
Something I forgot to mention in the video:
When Mbiti said he focused on African society before the influence of modernity, he was likely marking a boundary between what he saw as “traditional Africa”, rooted in indigenous religion, community, and a cyclical understanding of time, and the “modern” world which to him as a theologian he probably saw as shaped by colonial contact and Christian missionization. However, as we know, African scholars have critiqued this framing (and so do I) because it constructs a myth of a pure, untouched “traditional Africa,” arguing instead that African life and thought were never static, and that modernity itself was co-produced with Africa.
over 100 yrs of Western Colonization could not MODERNIZE these back wards people [/MEDIA]
Hessian
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“Milling Around” is the activity one engages in when one engages in no activity at all - and in an egregiously aimless form is particularly common among Third Worlders."
In other words...much of Africa is dominated by people reenacting Seinfeld or Friends....but it is actually real life to them. I wonder which tribe gets to be Vanderlay Industries?
In other words...much of Africa is dominated by people reenacting Seinfeld or Friends....but it is actually real life to them. I wonder which tribe gets to be Vanderlay Industries?
Italians have a word to describe those who mill about. In that culture, the milling about is always done by males.