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Anarchy Brings Low Telecom Prices In Somalia
AlanKHG writes "As Somalia has been without a government for 13 years, its telecom market has gone unregulated. In that time, the service has become some of the best in Africa. On the other hand, some of the downsides of a society without government are visible, as the country is divided by warring factions and the roads have gone completely unmaintained."
Congratulations on such a well-crafted troll. But as anyone with an IQ above 70 will tell you, you are grossly incorrect, since IQs below 90 occur only in the retarded.
My take? In short: the guilty factors are cultural and historical in nature, not biological. Perhaps African society doesn't fit the mold of Western-style government as well as others do, but it's hard to blame them for that. In fact, I suspect the main reason Westerners look at Africa with contempt and pity is that Westerners have a habit of compulsively judging other societies by their own, homegrown, metrics. Blood revenge is a horror to you or me, but perhaps not so to those who were raised in a culture that values it as tradition and honor. Many Africans, for their part, would denounce our society's consumer fetishism and perceived soullessness.
And you can trust me because I'm Japanese with a high IQ.
Like you said, "by Western standards." Perhaps a better question for you to ask is why you insist on applying Western standards to the African continent.