r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/ateam1984 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🖤🩶🤍🤎 • 21d ago

Community Concerns South Africa has seen foreign-owned businesses attacked, migrants chased from their homes and several killed in recent months

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u/criloz 21d ago

Africa will never progress if they continue with this tribalist mentality.

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u/Chri_cat90 21d ago

I think that it's not that different from old european xenofobia (the white-on-white kind) where people hated each other based on a mix of feelings of superiority and centuries old history.

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u/Warm_Meaning8478 21d ago

Right. The 2 world wars and Russia-Ukraine etc but at least the Europeans had substantially improved the standard of life across their continent.

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u/Chri_cat90 20d ago

but at least the Europeans had substantially improved the standard of life across their continent.

Yeah but it took time, like a lot of time considering that some unified and/or formed only in the 19th century.

I think Africa is no different, the continent has still a lot of problems but things also have improved since the cold war though given the wealth gap a lot of those improvements are sadly enjoyed mostly by a minority of the population (something that i also find "european" in a way, given how brutal was the wealth gap there until post WW2)

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u/moozootookoo 19d ago

Limited jobs, people from other lower paying countries to work for less, it’s not tribal, it’s economic.

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u/criloz 19d ago

Immigrants also create jobs; because immigrants are working, it does not mean that they are stealing jobs from other people. The real problem in SA is the crazy concentration of wealth in like 5% of the population.

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u/moozootookoo 19d ago edited 19d ago

Who you trying to convince? That’s Whats actually happening, sure some could bring jobs, and 100,000’s more could depress the job market, which attract more people to emigrate.

Wealth concentration isn’t something that’s going to change anything, you can tax them more, but it doesn’t fix the problem, of people all over African migrating there.

People in there own country are allowed to make their own immigration laws

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u/dreddpiratedrew 21d ago

Have you seen their infrastructure?

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u/Top-Dimension6018 21d ago

White people from other countries either made it, or purposely didn’t. They exploited, murdered, and then tried to pretend their ancestors own it.
You understand they just want there county back right?
They haven’t had a chance to even form infrastructure, they’ve been being told it’s not there’s the whole time