Germany isn't civilised? If you're claiming that what happened over there could not happen in the USA, you're wrong. Let's just leave it at that. As for hiroshima and vietnam - nuking innocent people/napalming innocent villagers is never civilised.
I don't know every african out there, that's true. But I have been to less civilised countries, and I know for a fact that out there, people are far more caring than they are over here. There's this story I've heard that might illustrate what I mean.
One day, a reporter from Belgium was walking around in a third world country. He was there making a documentary. And, as if often the case when you're a westerner, he had been bothered by the local population, who were trying to sell him things, all day long. So in the evening, when yet another kid was trying to sell him chewing gum, he had finally had enough. So when the kid asked him if he wanted to buy some chewing gum, he just told it off by saying: "No. I dont have any money".
This kid, who probably would probably never own as many as what this reporter made in one day, then felt pity on this guy, and gave this guy one of it's few chewing gums.
That's african hospitality. And that's what we no longer have. Go into an african town, and chances are good that almost everybody you meet will invite you into their homes, feed you, let you sleep over, and share what little they have with you.
Somebody once said that you can measure how civilised a society is by how it treats it's weakest members. I think that's the best way to look at it. And that's why I say that their society is perhaps more civilised than ours is.
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