Purely cohencidental

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[–]suckitreddit 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I think it's both. Crime causes poverty. And then poverty creates more crime. Crimes of opportunity, desperation, etc. But I respectufully disagree about your perspective on Africa because a look at its history shows that Euro/western conquerers destroyed, at least to some degree, their prosperity. King Leopold II killed 4 million Africans in the Congo for example.

[–]Truth_about_trees 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I will agree with you about the state of Africa, however, before significant Euro/Western interference (which did indeed cause damage like the relatively recent Benin Expedition) there was much damage done by Islam. That said, as I understand it, pre-European but post-Islamic Ethiopia was a terrible place of civilization full of ethnic racism and slavery. In this regard, even the more developed parts of the continent were as terrible as other places in the world at the time, without foreign or Western influence.