Why did European colonists leave behind such terrible, poorly-built "roads" that fell apart once they left Africa? What kind of sick joke was this? Why are Chinese roads in Africa so much better than E*ropean ones?
Why did European colonists leave behind such terrible, poorly-built "roads" that fell apart once they left Africa...
Jace Baker
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Dylan Cook
Can't africans just build their own roads?
Jackson Ortiz
Let's see how chinese roads operate in 60 years without maintenance Chang
Anthony Cooper
>Why are Chinese roads in Africa so much better than E*ropean ones?
A passion for quality gravel
Luis Gomez
They neglected them and destroyed them on purpose
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John Allen
After Europeans stole all of their resources? How?
Noah Nelson
Europeans actually left behind excellent infrastructure so they could properly extract natural resources from their colonies. The Africans let the infrastructure they left behind fall apart. Here's a documentary on it.
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Ryder Lopez
YOU HAVE BEEN VISITED BY THE SCOLDING CHINESE MAN OF TIGHT SCHEDULES AND INCOMPETENT AFRICAN WORKERS.
TRUCK FUEL AND GRAVEL WILL COME TO YOU, BUT ONLY IF YOU POST "THANK YOU, LAO YANG" IN THIS THREAD
Adrian Collins
I don't see them getting their project done unless they overthrow the government and build the shit themselves like the euros did.
Jackson Rodriguez
Look at these larpers
Joshua Scott
They're trying that now. They lent Africa more money than they could ever pay back, and of course the African government was too retarded to see any problem in this, took the loan and is now about to default so China will own their largest ports.
Aaron James
what happens if the Africans refuse?
Asher Thomas
Good question, I don't know enough about international trade contracts.
It would be interesting to see what happens if they try to skip out on the debt though.
Austin Ward
I don't think you know what a larp is
Jaxson Jones
European roads were either private ones to company mines,plantations and so on and so forth. That means that roads to them were built CHEAP to cut costs.
Colonial roads funded by native taxes weren't made fir local climates, building good roads isn't imperative since companies owned by Europeans make more money from road repairs of weak roads.
Easton Thomas
You mean like almost EVERY country on the globe ?
When will you stop pretending you're some expert ?
David Morales
Empire of Dust is an extremely shitty doc about Chinese African interaction, history or just about anything.
Ryder Roberts
>that fell apart once they left Africa?
Yes, I wonder why that happened when, and only when, the Europeans were gone. What changed? It's a mystery.
Jaxon Gonzalez
Maybe its the difference between 200 year old roads and 3 year old roads?
David Torres
What's wrong with it? Because it's purely anecdotal?
Matthew Long
>stole all of their resources
Yes, because that's totally how it works. Plantations just... stop working, right? They just suddenly dry out, don't they? Because there totally is a hard limit to the supply of coffee, tobaco, rubber, tea, cacao, cotton, avocado's and all that other valuable shit that Europeans grew in Africa, right? And all gold and diamonds just disappeared overnight, which is why dictators bribe foreign companies and regimes with their own shit, right?
Kevin Morgan
Then explain South Korea. Upon gaining independence, it was poorer than Kenya. Now it gives Kenya's former colonial overlord a run for its money.
Jaxon Evans
Not only will they own their ports , they also get influence in the UN as the african countries will always vote in their favour.
Christopher Roberts
> Europeans stole all the resources of Africa
Jordan Carter
Simple math: Asians > Africans
Lucas Morgan
he doesn't need gravel for roads, he needs railroad gravel