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What comes to mind when you think of Africa?

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RaDicAL_T
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I have to write a paper and the topic is: What comes to mind when you think of Africa?" All your input is apreciated.
Mar 23 2009 1:04PM
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Aaaron.
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have you ever had ethiopean food?
Mar 23 2009 1:06PM
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SKIDUBAIGUY
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Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
Mar 23 2009 1:07PM
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speightphoto
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desert, rainforest, and poverty
Mar 23 2009 1:10PM
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skiminnesota
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Lions, Elephants, Cheetahs. 
Mar 23 2009 1:17PM
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Commonwealth
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Honestly, civil war and AIDS.
Mar 23 2009 1:18PM
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Commonwealth
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Oh, and genocide.
Mar 23 2009 1:18PM
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PopsicleStand
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^second those things with the scourges of third world countries.

also, gold, advanced ancient civilization, diamonds.
Mar 23 2009 1:20PM
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Scolson
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Mar 23 2009 1:24PM
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spruitm
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black people
Mar 23 2009 1:26PM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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I went to grad school with a girl from Malawi and my gf goes to school with some people from Ghana - to be honest with you before I met these people i had the same stereotype of africa as most other people.  people dancing around a campfire in nothing but a loin cloth with crazy piercings and body paint...living in villages without electricity, running water, real buildings, etc...hunting wild animals on the sahara desert to feed the tribe...ya know, shit like that. 

it was really interesting to meet people from the continent to be able to ask them about shit like that.  they all laugh and basically write it off -  "Yeah, that's what everybody thinks about Africa.  It's really not much different from the US, Canada, or Europe. Sure there are places that are very poor and underdeveloped, but not everything is like that."

Mar 23 2009 1:27PM
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Beans13
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[IMG]www.rowdy.dk/pics/ace-spades_space-aids.jpg[IMG]

Mar 23 2009 1:31PM
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Beans13
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aww fuck

I dont know how to post pics on here- just follow the link i guess.

Mar 23 2009 1:32PM
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kris.....
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im not even going to say somthing cause u know ill get in trouble some how for saying the N word or the K term lol

Mar 23 2009 1:32PM
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Beans13
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Mar 23 2009 1:41PM
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hartig
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exactly what i was going to post
Mar 23 2009 1:43PM
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Beans13
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haha

i saw it somewhere else today and this thread reminded me...

its too good not to post!

Mar 23 2009 1:46PM
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stonedTEX
Posts: 256 - Karma: 31
human suffering in general and the realization that the world has the potential for so much good and evil and needs no reason for ether.
Mar 23 2009 1:48PM
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mattmonahan88
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Toto!
Mar 23 2009 1:48PM
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Benedetto.
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southern africa has some rich ass cities
Mar 23 2009 1:50PM
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Hannah.
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man i wish i had that easy of a open essay
Mar 23 2009 2:00PM
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gmack24
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UGANDA GENOCIDE
Mar 23 2009 2:17PM
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fsscott
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and

mainly this

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Mar 23 2009 2:17PM
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DJ_i_2727
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Toto
Mar 23 2009 2:29PM
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Sufferboy
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starvin marvin
Mar 23 2009 2:34PM
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dex.
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BUFFLO SOULJAAAA
Mar 23 2009 2:35PM
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line1260skier
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-neither have they
Mar 23 2009 2:41PM
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WIfreeskier
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giraffes
Mar 23 2009 2:46PM
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doublexl
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sorry dude, but i gotta say, thinking Africa is still that undeveloped is so ignorant.
this is in South Africa
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Mar 23 2009 2:49PM
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wh@t
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South Africa, my hoooooooome! that the spear chuckers fucked up.

no hate k-rob.
Mar 23 2009 2:51PM
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Beans13
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LOL
Mar 23 2009 2:52PM
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mellifluous
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lions and the colour orange. :)
Mar 23 2009 2:54PM
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Microcosm
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I think:

South Africa => Durban => Surfing:
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Mar 23 2009 2:57PM
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stonedTEX
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and who said apartheid was all bad
Mar 23 2009 3:00PM
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Yeezus
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i think of poverty, desert, aids, war, animals, nile river, and last but not least black people, oh yea and slavery
Mar 23 2009 3:05PM
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Commonwealth
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Well there, Mr. Intellectual, if you read the rest of his post he says that he no longer believes that stereotype, and that his African friends told him that they have cities like the US, Europe, and Canada.
Mar 23 2009 3:11PM
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MasterDebater
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yes there is the developed part of of Africa, but there's also the 3rd world part. to me, blood diamond, child soldiers, disease(not just aids) and lion king. plus all the shit that goes down in southern Africa, like shark attacks.
Mar 23 2009 3:25PM
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WhiteBurd
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game farms
Mar 23 2009 3:27PM
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WhiteBurd
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and tarzan and the disney movie with the huge gorilla
Mar 23 2009 3:27PM
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Shpadoinkle
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:-(
Mar 23 2009 3:49PM
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DirtyDan
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AIDS
Mar 23 2009 3:49PM
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yuck
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i think of lions and weird trees.

strangely enough, child soldiers and war and disease didnt cross my mind till i read through some of the thread.
Mar 23 2009 3:53PM
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laxstar
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OH MY!!!! but i think the child soldiers would be a good topic
Mar 23 2009 3:55PM
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doublexl
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i read the whole fucking post, idiot. but to think that the entirety of Africa is still tribes is definitely ignorant.

i dont know a whole lot about Africa, but i didnt have to meet people from there to realize they arent "people dancing around a campfire in nothing but a loin cloth with crazy piercings and body paint...living in villages without electricity, running water, real buildings, etc...hunting wild animals on the sahara desert to feed the tribe".

and by the way, saying things like, "Well there, Mr. Intellectual", just makes you sound like a fucking moron. especially when im not trying to say anything "intellectual".


Mar 23 2009 4:05PM
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Aaaron.
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neither have they
Mar 23 2009 4:07PM
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sick-as-aids
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honestly i think of skinny little black kids coverd in flies

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Mar 23 2009 4:07PM
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OhMyBosh
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I know its ignorant for people to think all of africa is a desert or whatever... but whenever i think of Africa i just get an image like in one of those typical ads wanting people to donate stuff... some crappy mud huts with fly covered black skinny kids.
Mar 23 2009 4:12PM
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sklermang
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cows as $
Mar 23 2009 4:17PM
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Jib-Ninja
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Dave Chappel
Mar 23 2009 4:22PM
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wnab21
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AIDZ
Mar 23 2009 4:31PM
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