New Guinea VS Subsaharan Africa

[pinguino]

Some are still cannibals

So?

[Anglojew]

So?

So some are uncivilised

[pinguino]

So some are uncivilised

Certainly. You find some cannibals both in New Guinea and in Sub-Saharan Africa, but that's not the point. The question was which region will develop faster, and why.

[Anglojew]

Certainly. You find some cannibals both in New Guinea and in Sub-Saharan Africa, but that's not the point. The question was which region will develop faster, and why.

Africa probably. You can't really compare one (or two if you include Irian Jaya) country of a few million with dozens of countries with hundreds of millions.

[pinguino]

Africa probably. You can't really compare one (or two if you include Irian Jaya) country of a few million with dozens of countries with hundreds of millions.

Why not? Both groups came from the jungle in contemporary times.

[Ctwentysevenj]

There is a major problem of violence against women in Papua New Guinea. There was a program on the ABC, Australian television regarding this issue. As in Africa, there is an issue with tribalism. Africa, despite billions in aide, most sub saharans live in extreme poverty, ravage by tribalism and war, with no hope to develop. Many still live in mud huts. Throughout the vast area of sub sahara, not one country has any advance manufacturing industries, even basic manufacturing like making plastic bottles. Just read a book on railways, and the railways of Ghana and Nigeria, have fallen into total despair. All of the railway infrustruture, of course built by the Europeans, is totally stuffed. Their railway system was not a sophisticated one, but they could not even maintain their respective systems. Even Dr James Watson, one of the discoverers of DNA in 1953, admitted that sub saharans generally are less intelligent compared to most other people's. This maybe due to the environment they live in, I don' t know.