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No actually, you measure culture by propriety. Lets look at the most prosperous nations in history. Oh look at that its a list dominated by Western Culture civilizations. Oh are where are the Arab nations? Sitting along the bottom with the African civilizations. But we can just continue to refuse to ignore any possible correlation here. I mean doing so has just worked out so well for the world so far.
Oh but the Arab nations want to continue to blame western culture for holding them back. I mean its just could not possibility be that Arab culture is holding itself back. No need for reform here! If they can wipe Western culture off the planet Arab culture will prosper again!
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You're an idiot. If you had any sense of history you would understand just how devastating colonialism was to Africa and the Middle East. It's not that once colonial powers left everything went back to the way it once was.
National borders were arbitrarily drawn, dividing similar peoples and creating artificial distinctions. Infrastructure was built that was designed to prevent regional trading (all the railroads led to ports). Farmers were forced to grow cash crops that destroyed the soil and left them without sustenance. Brutal regimes killed hundreds of thousands. Of course, that was 50+ years ago. Then the IMF and World Bank came around and gave crippling loans to desperate governments, knowing that they would never be able to afford the interest.
I'm not a post-modernist, but to say that Africans and Arabs don't have culture as defined by your arbitrary definition is simply fucking retarded.
Also, let's forget entirely about Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan and all the other Arab nations that enjoy relatively high standards of living with less of the religious fundamentalism. Even Iran, the predominantly Shiite outsider hated by Arabs is lumped into the group and given a bad rep when most of the population is quite progressive, but ruled by Ayatollah's.
oh whatever. lol at the above
SHOW THEM MOZLEMS WHOS BOSS
edit: MUTHAFUCKAAAASSSS
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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