 photomstr
Male, 50-59, Canada
 767 Posts
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Saturday, July 21, 2012 1:26:02 AM
First Nations is a crock . . . they were nomads living off the land. They had no concept of land ownership. Kinda like the so called palestinians . . . |
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 8BitHero
Male, 18-29, Europe
5417 Posts
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Friday, July 20, 2012 9:50:57 AM
Cool cool. |
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 SarahofBorg
Female, 18-29, Eastern US
3526 Posts
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Thursday, July 19, 2012 8:38:16 PM
There's also reason to believe we're all ethnically Jewish too. |
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 5Cats
Male, 40-49, Canada
16887 Posts
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Thursday, July 19, 2012 1:41:21 PM
She's not from Africa. She's a Pole dancer.
@MacGuffin: I see what you did there... |
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LordJim
Male, 50-59, Europe
2401 Posts
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Thursday, July 19, 2012 9:47:42 AM
We all trace our ancestry to Africa, so in that sense, yeah.
As to why some parts of the world seem to have all the good stuff, 'Guns, Germs and Steel' is worth reading. |
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 tryit0nce
Female, 18-29, Canada
100 Posts
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Thursday, July 19, 2012 9:31:40 AM
@patchouly -> There are developed areas of Africa too. There would still be First Nations tribes living a basic hunter/gatherer life in North America today.. if we hadn't killed them all, or forced them to assimilate into OUR culture. Just sayin'. |
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 McGovern1981
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
10187 Posts
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Thursday, July 19, 2012 9:05:44 AM
@carmium
It was different for anyone else? Africa has alot of untapped resources. |
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 carmium
Female, 50-59, Canada
4017 Posts
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Thursday, July 19, 2012 8:18:53 AM
Patchouly:
If life was hardscrabble and blazing hot, hunting and gathering, with maybe a small plot of root veggies, you probably wouldn't have much inclination to spend your spare time erecting temples or inventing vinyl siding.
Jus' sayin'. |
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 patchouly
Male, 40-49, Canada
2955 Posts
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Thursday, July 19, 2012 7:31:40 AM
@ McGovern1981,
I often wonder about that when I see a documentary on the tribes living out in the jungle. Living in straw huts, throwing spears...Why haven't they ever tried to improve their living conditions? Why have they not improved, invented? What is different about them that makes them lack that urge to become better? |
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McGovern1981
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
10187 Posts
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Thursday, July 19, 2012 7:23:48 AM
As a population, people in Africa have far more genetic diversity than everyone else in the entire world. However many non-Africans have some genes from intermixing with Neanderthals.
And yet this happened....
Amazing. |
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patchouly
Male, 40-49, Canada
2955 Posts
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Thursday, July 19, 2012 6:38:37 AM
I think you guys are missing the point of the shirt. If a black person calls themselves African, even though they were born in Texas, their Mother and Father were born in New York and their Grandparents were from Detroit. Then they are American. If you are going to start going back to find linage, just how far do you go? Because if you go back far enough, we are technically all Africans. That's the point the shirt is trying to make (Of course, the shirt's argument isn't true but for the sake of explaining the shirt I'll go with it). |
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 jkfld
Male, 30-39, Midwest US
135 Posts
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Thursday, July 19, 2012 6:27:26 AM
"The Bible says modern people are the result of incestuous relations Cain and his brothers had with their sisters. Science says we are all descendants of Africans. I believe science." --Richard Dawkins, from the back of that shirt. |
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 Sistarose
Female, 30-39, Australia
371 Posts
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Thursday, July 19, 2012 4:38:42 AM
Ok we all share common ancestors who originate in Africa, for an explanation you could watch This video or just take my word for it. This has nothing to do with civilisations, just the beginnings of our ancestors migration. Having said that, it just means that is the most precocious douche bag t-shirt I have ever seen. I am sure the people of Uganda or Sudan will be impressed when she points out she is African just like them. |
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 taylor_stone
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
2476 Posts
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Thursday, July 19, 2012 2:47:02 AM
lol @ MacGuffin... I see what you did there...
that said, it seems she is an Atheist as well... Or at least interested in the Atheist point of view. Christopher Hitchens was one of the great minds of Atheism.
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 MacGuffin
Female, 30-39, Europe
2597 Posts
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Thursday, July 19, 2012 12:13:10 AM
She's not from Africa. She's a Pole dancer. |
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 markust123
Male, 40-49, Western US
3783 Posts
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012 11:48:18 PM
We are all fricans. |
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 auburnjunky
Male, 30-39, Southern US
8667 Posts
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012 11:18:07 PM
No we aren't. The cradle of civilization was somewhere in the Middle East. |
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 OldOllie
Male, 50-59, Midwest US
8711 Posts
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012 11:01:59 PM
Fortunately, my ancestors had the good sense to leave the world's ghetto and move north to a better neighborhood. |
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 lawndartsftw
Male, 40-49, Canada
1815 Posts
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012 8:26:31 PM
3% Neanderthal here, checking in.... |
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 birdz
Female, 18-29, Western US
77 Posts
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012 8:18:45 PM
As a population, people in Africa have far more genetic diversity than everyone else in the entire world. However many non-Africans have some genes from intermixing with Neanderthals. |
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 YANKmyDOODLE
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
662 Posts
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012 7:15:01 PM
bet she can't even read |
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 jendrian
Male, 18-29, Canada
2352 Posts
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012 7:07:28 PM
we are all actually pangeans |
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 Ani187
Female, 30-39, Midwest US
3806 Posts
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012 6:57:33 PM
I would wear a shirt that said that, Angilion. |
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5Cats
Male, 40-49, Canada
16887 Posts
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012 6:39:11 PM
My GF is a deist and not a pole dancer.
Well @LazyMe: She's half-perfect then! lolz!
vv What @Angilion said. "From Africa" does not equate to "African" after 100,000 years (or whatever the exact number is).
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 CaptKangaroo
Male, 50-59, Southern US
1198 Posts
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012 5:58:55 PM
I thought planking was over... |
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