World's 25 dirtiest cities

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Gee, Lisa, I like you too. I have been in the Military and travelled the world, and I live right outside DC, so I call them as I see them. To critisize others DOES not make me a racist; this is the same tiresome rhetoric that CAUSES racial divide. Central and South America, subsharan Africa, India, and Indonesia/Malaysian archipeligos, among other places, are just as I described them. It is simply history that Europe and the Middle East - the Celts, the Greeks, the Romans, and the semitic peoples of the Middle East - have given us 2,500 years of culture in every respect; especially northern and western europeans. The new world was populated by stone age savages (Native Americans, to be politically correct) who hadn't even entered the iron age or invented the wheel. Subsaharan black africa never produced any culture of any sort - no writing, nothing. They learned iron making from the Arabs, but that is it. And no, the Egyptians, who did invent writing, were not black and Greece did not 'steal' civilization from them. The blacks south of Egypt did some of the things the Egyptians did, but they didn't invent them. Blacks have enslaved blacks in Africa from time immemorial, and there is STILL SLAVERY TODAY IN AFRICA. They engaged in commerce with Europeans by selling them people they had enslaved. Free southern blacks, for example, owned slaves, and fought for the confederacy. Not to mention constant wars in Africa, with even children killing others and cannibalizing them today; remember Rwanda. (Look at the disaster of Mugabe in Rhodesia, oh, sorry Zimbabwe). He completely destroyed the "breadbasket of Africa" built by white settlers. Now, you will note that, unlike you, I did not call you names, I just layed out the facts. Not liking the facts does not change them, nor will calling me names help your case. Bob Anderson

3-19-2008 @ 9:13AM

Kenny said...

The problems that many of these developing countries face today are no different than the problems European cities, and countries faced in the past (remember the plague?) Europeans were fortunate in that they have had a head start in developing sanitary, and health codes that have greatly enhanced the health and well being of their populations. If you were to read the description of sanitary, and health conditions of European, and American cities written by travelers in previous centuries, you will see that western societies are not too long removed from the conditions faced by developing societies today. It is indeed a sad commentary on our lack of love and compassion for other members of the human family, when we use a survey such as this to try and prove western and European "superiority" and speak so harshly, and ignorantly of other races, and societies , while conveniently forgetting our own past.

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