The Real Reason African Nations Can Never Mirror Britain's Success
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The story of how Jews, Lombards, Italians, Germans, French Huguenots, etc., came to England and laid the foundation for subsequent English practice, and later domination in several industries shows how vital trade and contact with the wider world is. When the movie "Black Panther" came out, I enjoyed it well enough, but I could never entirely suspend disbelief, because I know just how _impossible_ it would be for a totally isolated society to grown into a technological wonder. The opposite would happen: they'd regress and become more primitive, not more advanced. There is historical precedent for this. The earliest human settlers of the island of Tahiti, enterprising mariners who made astounding voyages across the world's largest ocean, found for themselves almost a paradise. With almost a complete absence of hostile forces, abundant food, gentle climate, and a direct line of descent from those enterprising voyagers, and freed from much in the way of material need, one might expect their descendants to have created a great society distinguished by its art, its crafts, its music, or something.
They didn't. And in fact we know from archaeology that the Tahitians _lost_ skills that had been known to their ancestors, including writing and pottery.
Isolated societies stagnate and then eventually regress, because they lack outside influences to stimulate growth and change, and they lack any way for outsiders to bring in new ideas and new skills -- which then inspire natives of that society to come up with their own new ideas and skills in response. The availability of some magical wonder resource like Marvel's fictional super-metal adamantium would not change this.
Not just "contact" and trade, but stability of institutions and liberty. Both are essential components for skilled immigrants to appear and transplant their skills into the new environment by working alongside, and marrying the locals.
You mean Vibranium...
not Adamantium😉
@@QuintenWhyte Yes, I stand corrected. Point's still the same though.
This was a perfect distillation of what was described in this video. It was well written, and I love how you used a popular work, of fiction, the Black Panther movie, to illustrate this point. It really highlights the inanity of the woke worldview that animates Hollywood, where all forms of inequality are erroneously explained through the lens of oppression. Thank you.
@@QuintenWhyte Or as it was called in some other forgettable Hollywood production: unobtanium...
It’s not only the technology, it’s the overall culture that allows to prosper. Rule of law is paramount
There was no rule of law before the thieving British invaded Zimbabwe?
Your rule of law includes owning slaves and working them to death for nothing?
Rule of corruption in Africa...and nearly every black-run country
Isaac Asimov wrote a short story about some people who gathered the world's technology knowledge and put it into a great book that was then sent backwards in time, so it could be discovered and used by people of the past, hopefully changing history and making the world of the present a super-enlightened place with tremendous scientific and technological achievement. Nothing changed. Apparently people have to be ready for new ideas. Entrepreneurs have observed that many useful ideas are invisible to most people, and when they awaken, ideas seem to pop up all over the place.
@@wdd3141 what is the title or name of the short book?
100 Christians killed in Nigeria during Christmas for the fun of it. Gee...I cant figure out why that part of the world is among the least evolved and developed.
This was in the news for one day.
@@rectorkirk1158 - I didn’t even see it.
And what is the difference between that and the Muslim villagers the westerners killed in Iraq and Afghanistan for fun. The British government still never sent a British soldier who killed a young Kenyan new mother while stationed in that country, and went on a bragging mission. And why is Julian Assange still being held prisoner? he exposed both the British and American atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan. And both countries want him dead. Its now like holding on a feather after the chickens have escape.
But but, islam is a religion of peace!
Islam
In a globalised world, the Japanese can afford to be homogeneous because skills are learnt from anywhere today. Zimbabweans can farm, they just won't.
They did farm until Mugabe.
@@CanadianMonarchist After seizing the white-owned farms, they could've at least been proactive & start farming.
Zimbabwe? It’s literally all of them.
@@CanadianMonarchist Did Mugabe prevent black farmers from farming? I think it was a lack of "depth perception" by Mugabe. Mugabe wanted to be Hitler with Gukurahundi so between genocides, land grabs & sanctions, farming industry would've had a hard time regardless of which race was farming.
@@KwatuistM Someone else on here says Mugabe confiscated the land of Black farmers.
I often think to myself that many if not most of the problems in the world would disappear if they would just follow the sage counsel of practical thinkers like Thomas Sowell. The world will be a truly dark place when he passes. God bless that man.
His research should be taught in our schools. We all should know why that hasn't happened and most likely never will. We are being judged now by God for our short sightedness. Verily.
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Don't say that about living healthy people. You should delete that part .
@@itsnotatoober Sowell is 90 years old. No one is immortal. Nothing wrong with saying what TinMan2u said.
His books and essays will live on to the end of time.
They cant mirror Britain's success but they can bring Britain down to their level.
The British were colonizers who rooted and enslaved their colonies. They are still benefiting from all that.
Bar wasn't set very highest in the first place , Murder ,plunder, run
@@HaleyChain-vw8rr Britain gave you the modern world, so yes the bar was set extremely high
Nobody is bringing Britain down except Britain you people are the ones who have been engaging in atrocities all over the world and destabilizing the whole entire planet as you keep causing wars and giving arms to brutal governments. The reason you have Julian Assange in custody he exposed your evilness. And you badly want him dead.What do you expect when wars you cause happen? Citizens get displaced end up as refugees,you made your bed sleep in it.
@@woodwyrm don't forget the air that I breath aswell'
Those who succumb to *_envy_* destroy all those who demonstrate greater merit and ability. Those who admire great merit and ability thrive due to their trusting and grateful nature.
*_ENVY KILLS!!_*
And it's close cousin hatred comes with its own severe penalties...
@jimhughes1070 While I can readily imagine many legitimate reasons to hate others for their bad behavior.... how is *envy* as a destructive motive ever justified?
@@davidhunt313
I got straight A's in English.... If you reread my reply. Which was made with the intention of backing up your original point... Envy is wanting what someone else has... Also called being "covetous".... Strictly forbidden in the Ten Commandments for a reason....
"Loving your neighbor as yourself"... Is the opposite of hatred...
Hatred just like envy will bring about punishments in one's life... Of course normally it's just written off as more "things" that they hate... Mostly because they're stupid and unlearned... We live in a cause and effect Universe... Jesus said Check your motivations because
even those can bring you into judgment...
And therefore punishment... And I'm not talking about some far off day in the future... I hope that clears it up my friend
@@davidhunt313 also your original post is brilliant!! 👍🥰... I think I may have just been too far off of the original topic 🙏🧐
@@jimhughes1070 You claim to have received straight A's in your English classes, but you make a junior high school mistake when writing "And it's (sic) close cousin hatred...". If you'd dropped the apostrophe, I might have believed you.
The educated and the skilled flee.
Those left behind suffer from systematic corruption and tribalism
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The anglosphere colonies inherited rule of law, private property rights, mercantilation, the key British values which enabled their success unlike other European colonies and the African and Asian territories were largely left to their own self rule and maintain cultural norms.
Its too bad the Anglosphere has been regressing on rule of law, private property rights, and as well as business acumen. Just look at what has been happening to the Anglo nations since the end of the cold war. A real shame to what they could have been.
@@JKTProductionzIncNCoits not over yet
I am not so sure about that. Caribbean countries where Spanish is spoken are far more developed and industrialized than the Caribbean places owned by the British, places that without tourism, due the natural landscape, probably wouldn't even be inhabited..
@@ReinoldFZ so then, Hispanics are better at stuff than Africans then? Well done Sherlock for not missing the clues😄
wow we are so dumb - we didn't have laws until the white man gave us - oh great white man
We didn't have trade until the white man showed us how!
Sick of this pure racist view!
Thank God for the British Empire. ✝️🇬🇧
These immigrants intergrated unlike a lot of rubbish these days.
These immigrants were Europeans, not Africans, middle eastern, Asians…
And they didn't integrate immediately. The Asian and immigrant ghettos of London had Flemish lace makers, Jewish tailors, hugenots etc throughout the 18th and 19th century. Yes they integrated but it wasn't instant.
So we have the Indians from Kenya and Uganda to thank for all those corner shops that opened all day on a Sunday. Again, they didn't integrate from day one.
Yes. They had to survive. Wellfare was not invented back then. It is now, that they come and get housing and scooling. Back then they had to rely on themselvs. Humanity and diversity did not count much.
Always outstanding information. Thank you, Dr. Sowell.
The removal of skilled people from vital industries is peak stupidity. I understand their reasoning, but to replace it with either poorly skilled, unskilled, or as the intro noted, with nothing at all, only serves to hurt the greater populace and the development of the nation.
Exactly!
I told my Afrixan friend...it does not .always sense to give blks land without the skills ....
I agree with everything you said with the exception of "I understand their reasoning".
I don't, as your very well laid out argument demonstrates that whatever it is they're trying to achieve, is not a good idea.
But I suppose it comes down to the fact that just because something is explainable, does not mean it has to be logical. In this case, ideology was chosen to overrule logic and common sense.
They're reasoning is simply, "If we can't have it and control it, no one will."
Sorry, *their*.
I've also met successful black farmers in Zimbabwe who also had their lands taken away at the same time the white farmers did so this land reform nonsense by Mugabe was bs. People don't tell you this.
Yeah the reality was it was a wealth grab, Mugabe was a lot more ruthless and selfish than many give him credit for.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and that particular human frailty knows no social, economic, geographic, or genetic boundaries. Verifiable.
@@osier769 and it happened when he was about to be driven out of power by an opposition party. Bear in mind he was in Power from 1980 and had no issues with white farmers until 2000 because they were paying taxes to his corrupt government.
After the Mugarbage regime stole the land and many farmers fled, the government tried to entice them to return. "We're disappointed that you fled from our heavy-handed confiscation. After we stole your land, ate your livestock, and sold your farm equipment for scrap, we're puzzled that you left. But we're hungry now, so we forgive you for leaving. Please come back, start over from scratch, and feed us."
That is because the nature of their soul was white.
Platitudes of colonialism and racism have been repeated ad nauseum by states and authorities to excuse their continuing incompetence and failures. The most outstanding examples of misgovernance and mayhem are in Sri Lanka and Africa; the best example of a nation state rising above its dependency is Singapore. The rest fall somewhere in between, mostly on the lower rungs, as "national unity" is usually based on eradicating minorities and the traditional merchant class, and effecting state economic policies that punish entrepreneurs, foster corruption and cronyism, as elections are rigged and manipulated to ensure dominance by a single party, often a single ethnicity and religion, under corrupt prime ministers and presidents.
To understand a conditional hypothesis, an individual needs to posses intelligence equivalent to about 90 IQ points. You will never have a non-corrupt democratic system of governance with a population unable to grasp the logic used to process empathy itself.
You somehow forgot the only success story of Africa, Mauritius
@@varoonnone7159 Thank you for the reminder.
@@varoonnone7159 "The local population was forcibly expelled in 1965" It's a British success story, not an African one- if they would have practiced the same politics as South Africa it likely wouldn't be a success.
@@iridium8341 Singapore is a city state comprising mostly Chinese (although of different locales and dialects), Malays and Tamils. This ethnic mix is hard to contain and restrain their most basic impulses but the government maintains so by policies which prevent balkanization. When the race riots broke out in Malaysia 1968 it spread to Singapore but was quickly quelled and news of the riots in Malaysia prohibited.
While the surrounding countries as Malaysia and Indonesia enacted high import tarrifs to ostensibly protect local industry, but in truth fostered ill-managed monopolies, Singapore became a duty-free entrepot for Southeast Asia, at first second only to Hong Kong then later to èxceed it and become the second busiest port in the world.
In the early 80's most of Singapore's quays and waterways were fetid sewers overlaid by a carpet of small boats, and the environment in some places stank with litter. All this was cleaned up, heavy fines and public humiliation for littering and such acts as not flushing public toilets, and Singaporean became disciplined to clean surroundings.
"Singapore had a GDP per capita of USD 82,867 in 2022, compared to USD 56,954 a decade earlier. This compares to the average for Asia-Pacific of USD 8,369." Compare to the USA GDP per capita in 2022 of USD 76,343.25.
It is success such as this that makes Singapore the jealous envy of its neighbors and a model for development and governance as PRC government cadre routinely come to listen and learn.
I am not from Singapore, I find it overly regulated and the life there boring, but my personal likes and dislikes cannot refute that Singapore is an singular, outstanding example of post-colonial success. Comparing that former jewel Ceylon (Sri Lanka) to Singapore goes to show how far most have fallen. I think residents in many US cities like LA, San Francisco, Baltimore, Chicago - the list goes on - would gladly trade circumstances. And you?
An interesting story, not apocryphal: In the late 80's or early 90's a German manufacturer threatened to pull out if its conditions were not met. The Singapore authorities answered by saying, go ahead, the workers are better employed elsewhere.
We are going the opposite way in USA from earlier England. The USA has fallen into DEI and racial quotas instead of meritocracy. Same with the farms in South Africa and Zimbabwe. These two countries were once food exporters, now they are starving. A harbinger for America.
"Let's eliminate our experienced, productive, successful farmers due to their melanin deficiency and replace them with people who don't know one end of a plow from another or which end of the cow to milk. What could possibly go wrong?"
I fear you are correct , and now with the borders open.......
Just waiting for a DIE employee to invent the warp drive! Sometime never.
The same in the UK which is in serious decline.
That is correct.
You know you are watching a synthetic video when a reference to Odessa, Texas is illustrated by stock footage of the seaport at Odessa Ukraine, and when a Thomas Sowell video uses a video clip of Lombard Street in San Francisco to illustrate Lombard Street in London. Fake illustrations damage the Thomas Sowell brand.
nobody cares about the pictures, it's the narration we care about
Fair point. Not a huge big deal, but still kinda disappointing.
It is a big deal. Thomas Sowell is worth our time because, unlike everyone else on the internet, facts outweigh narratives.
What disgusts me most online is not people with whom I do not agree, but those who reach good conclusions yet degrade, depreciate, and adulterate the message with concoctions of false facts and logical fallacies.
@@dannypgrizzleagree wholeheartedly. One addition. Illogical fallacies.
That's the reason food is so expensive there. Zimbabweans migrate to South Africa, where farms are also gone to waste. Food is extremely expensive and people are begging or dying of starvation. But in the old days under the previous governments, food was abundant and extremely cheap.
Yup they thought by merly owning the land it would generate wealth like magic ,,that's why they will eternally poor
@@philosopher1ain their minds the land was important, everything else was an afterthought, they didn't expect that large area commercial farming was difficult to maintain.
An excellent analysis of history.
Is there a part 2 to this?
You explained how Britain succeeded, but I missed how Africa failed.
they didnt do what britain did
The introduction explains that. England kept the capable ppl and learned from them. They bekame part of Britain.
Zimbabwe kicked out farmers and now we read news about famine in the former breadbasket of Africa. Zimbabwe did not learn from the white farmers. They chose another path.
The takeaway from this is that value-adding to raw materials by processing to a finished product is an effective way to generate wealth across a nation.
You need a market to purchase your finished goods. Otherwise if you don't control the rules of trade, you aren't moving forward.
To condense a whole series of events over several centuries into a logical and entertaining narrative is brilliant. What a brilliant mind.
What's worse is once they get these farms for free, they refuse to sell it to the people currently operating it as their own contribution to punishing them. In turn they have to start over and many of them leave for countries with better prospects where their rights are protected. This results in loss of local jobs held by black people but also lost of services and the land and property are neglected.
Once again, many thanks Mr Sowell. I am one of so many of your grateful admirers
The world we know is a fallen world.. people in the United States and Europe haven’t had the full fallen world experience in a while but it’s coming..😢
Thomas is a great hero of mine and the greatest president the US never had...
In this video he touched on the foreign investment that helped stimulate the advancement of Britain,as he said it was attractive because of the stability of the governance and the rule of law that applied to everyone..... this tied in nicely with his explanation of how Britain became the biggest Empire the world has ever seen.....one , although being a colony of a more advanced people ( Roman) it left new ideas and technology behind.
Two, not having land borders like the rest of Europe more time was spent on developing a coherent society than having to protect land from envious neighbours.
Three, the people who found themselves in unsafe or dangerous situations in their own lands found the rule of law and pretty tolerant society attractive, which brought diverse skills and influences into Britain.......
Four, being a ship going nation using the Sea to transport goods the development of new Ship building Technology created more investment and encouraged exploration and trade...........so basically not having to invest in Border defence, having a trustworthy legal system and accepting groups of talented refugees is the first step to Empire building........it all fits....
didnt they say they were begging white farmers to come back not less than a year ago ? I mean pick your ideology and stand by it ! This flip flopping on major issues is just too chaotic and chaos breeds a lack of confidence for investors both local and foreign. Zimbabwe will remain a basket case if it can't decide what its going to do.
The title of this video is totally misleading. It's all very interesting but what's it got to do with Africa?
This video explains some of the success of England. But I don't see where it provided an answer to its own title.
There is no answer for Africa, not in this Age.
Click bait.
With all the time and resources spent on the africans like education. Why isnt africa the richest un the world. Blaming others.
What time and resources you’re referencing????? Africa is the most exploited real estate in recorded history both human (slavery) and natural ( see DRC) Are you a twin?
Blame it on geography, see "Guns, Germs, and Steel." Anything invented, or developed along the path from Cornwall-Babalonia-Persia-China-Japan would find its way back and forth and to the ends. Domestication of animals, iron making, the stirup, the wheeled vehicle, planting and tending crops- all these had a land bridge to allow them to spread.
Compare this with the Americas, Africa, and Australia, wihch did not have the possibility of this exchange of knowledge.
The Americas have iron ore, limestone, and coal. What pevented the Incas, Aztecs and Ute Indians from making iron and then steel, building ships, and then taking over land in Europe? Why was it the other way around? Why were the New World animals like the bison and moose not domesticated the way the Eurasian goats, sheep, horses, chickens, elephants, and cattle were? For one thing, the New World drew bad cards for domestication of animals. Further, they were cut off from the Cornwall to Japan exchange until Columbus arrived., bringing with him diseases to which the Eurasians and Africans had adapted by Darwinian selection over the ages.
In the case of Africa, there was and is no easy water transport similar to the Missisippi-Missouri, Hudson, Rhine, Danube, Volga, Yellow and Yangetze Rivers. As with domesticatable animals, a bad hand was dealt for geography.
Brilliant and educational episode 👏
What did any of this have to do with Africa?
Many African nations today are consumed with tribalism, racism and xenophobia. Unlike the process which took place in earlier England.
African hate for foreigners and other tribal Africans. For example expulsion of Indians from East Asia
What sucess nowadays? poverty, homelessness, Political leadership corrupt, lost all the Commonwealth Countries - don't call that sucess mate.
The title of this video is the easiest question in the world to answer. Because their African!
Thank you very much..
Funny you berate us yet I know you have invented nothing yourself.
@@hoverboyfew of us have but we have no trouble in learning from others
@@hoverboyPeople who cling to their race only do so because they have no personal achievements to boast. Don’t be bothered by them, they’re what you call losers.
I didn't hear any explanation for why East Asian countries were capable of maintaining and building on their colonial inheritance while African nations cannot.
You sound like sourpuss "heavens of murgatroyd" 😂😂😂
"building on their colonial inheritance" wow we asians had no culture, no morals, we were animals and then the white man came and taught us to become human! wow!
The racist arrogance!
Please pray for the Afrikaners/Boere in South Africa! We need your prayers and support. May God be with us all.
Immigrants brought know how. Some times they were kicked out of England but later on they were accepted and integrated. The African countries seem to be at the stage where talented immigrants get kicked out and their know how isn’t sufficiently spread to carry on without those immigrants.
"Never" is a strong word and Thomas didn't use that word.
@@ithecastic Clickbait? Not really. Whoever wrote the title was expecting that intelligent people can connect the dots. I certainly did.
"Thomas didn't use that word." True that; title should have been "The real reason African nations have never mirrored Britain's success."
@@SplashJohn Go on then, if you've connected the dots please explain to me the relevance of the title because I can't see it.
@@SplashJohn right, as “Can never” is different from “Have never”. Supposing that could change a century from now, history teaches us how the hold on global power shifts from region to region.
The reason Africa cannot reach Europe's success, is because Africa does not plunder Europe to gain and sustain success. Tell the whole truth Sowell, and stop this delusion of European success.
As an Englishman I'm descended from the creators of our modern world, you have NO chance of comparing with us.
Try a lower target.
Doesn't hold much weight in this argument but as long as you get your 8 hours 👆
Africa had civilizations even before the European continent. So yes, there's a chance.
As a Greek, feel the same.
On second thoughts, most Europeans can claim that.....and proudly.
Your’ country is going to fall to the Muslims because you left the God of the Bible, and don’t have the right to bear arms. Good luck.
Thank You Sir ! Have a Blessed Day All !
I agree with this analysis very much. The Dutch society has been open to foreigners for centuries and it has delivered enormous growth to the country. Even people like John Locke and Voltaire spend time in Holland and wrote great books there. Descartes lived in Holland for 20 years and wrote most of his famous books there. Spinoza was born in Holland but from Portuguese descent. The list is endless.
All that yummy Gouda cheese ;) (Religious freedom is nice too.)
Are you saying that African nations are similar to England before foreigners came and shared their science (including financial science) and technology with the English? But the African nations chased out their foreigners before absorbing that knowledge, whereas the English absorbed it first before kicking out its foreigners?
That's probably a good inference from this presentation, but the connection wasn't made.
Yes. And that's not racist that's a fact. My mother was born in south Africa and says it is like a whole different country today. Not because whites and Indians and Jews and ect were chased or kicked out...but there was nobody with experience to fill the void. And its CORRUPT AF!
That is one consequence of rule of law, low militarization and stability which contributed to success that he said, not the whole source of it.
Thats wrong apart from Zimbabwe and South Africa, the colonialists were in other African countries only to extract resources and ship them out. As a result, they never built industries that add value in these countries. they only extracted and shipped them out. Thus, there was no way of transferring skills because it was just an extraction model.
@@mola3845 Same happend to China, but they managed to rise up.
Natural ability cannot be discounted. Sub Saharan Africa didn't manage the written word, the wheel or anything more impressive than a mud hut until colonisation. F-
Necessity is the mother of invention
Is it a coincidence that most black majority former colonies (Jamaica, Haiti, South Africa, Western Africa etc) are sh*tholes where as most White majority former colonies (America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand etc) are thriving first World countries?.. I think not.
Nigerians in Britain excel way above the native White Brits in school and universities .
Er the Benin Bronzes show excellent knowledge of forging and casting as well as artistic merit.
There's always an exception to every rule
I guess the point of this video is that African nations don’t have immigrants bringing in their skills, which causes their technology to lag behind?
They don't need them because they invented everything along with discovering everything... apparently.
Then how come black Americans haven't overtaken their African counterparts?
@robertstallard7836 I have no horse in this, but when does anyone leave gradually?
you will not englands immigrants were from other parts of europe . europeans worked for their benefits africans didnt and still dont
If only this was taught at all schools for students to learn that we can all learn something from our neighbour. Wisdom shared serves all mankind.
??? This video had nothing to do with the title. What's going on?
Actually, Africa has mirrored Britain's success in one sphere. Africa has had wins in cricket.
Former colonies adopted cricket as a national sport, even after colonialism. Africa, India, Pakistan, Australia, West Indies, all love cricket and give England a run for their money.
"Stability of government and dependability of laws" attracted business and helped the commerce.
African governments are unstable precisely because they are colonial constructs and work for the interests of organisations like the IMF.
It goes to show that when you seek to control everything to not accumulate growth, then you regress a revolutionary person or influence to take hold of the society to spur it more into advancement and progression in ways that will help all in livelihood for further growth and prosperity
In a sane America ... Thomas Sowell's writings would be taught to ALL children !
I don't think many African nations want to mirror Europe's success. Maybe the earlier leaders of recently post-independent African countries of the 1960s thought they could emulate Europe's success but they've since grown disillusioned after the independence euphoria. Most people in Africa now would just like a country that works, nevermind intricate billion-dollar industries like those of Europe. Most Africans are just focused on food & shelter, if a country can provide that, we need nothing else. Emulating Britain is just out of reach. Emulating Rwanda or Ghana is something Africans should focus on.
The African economy from the 14th century on and probably before that was based on slavery. Mansa Musa one of the richest men that ever lived used slaves to dig mines. He also bead captured and sold slaves. This was before the New World was known. However.
So when the Brittish came to Africa and forced the end of slavery in about 1820, it caused problems because they were reliant on slavery. It would be like taking away all of our computers. It just took a long time to rebound from the removal of slaves.
Utter nonsense!
"Africa can never mirror Britains success". Some great nations of old where this arrogant, deciding the faith of others because they thaught of themselves as supreme while others struggled and all the indicies favoured them but where are they today???
Just look at South Africa when the ANC took over!
Interesting look at some of the history of Britain's slow advance. But this doesn't reflect the title of this video. Where is Africa mentioned, and what are the parallels?
There is no parallel. Strange title for the video.
Polarizing titles are like sex. They sell.
@robertstallard7836 It's good that folks like you are here to break down the point of the video. It seems many people miss the point of this great video.
@robertstallard7836 " The point is that it took a long time, and the learning of skills from other people, for the British to become successful. " Assuming the total validity of your interpretation, that still doesn't rule out the Africans, given sufficient time, matching the success of the English.
That is, you still have no interpretation of the video that makes sense of the title, which offers an explanation of a presumed fact which it never delivers.
At the end of the video, we still haven't a clue why Africa "can never mirror Britain's success".
The English kicked out the Jews, and yet still succeeded. They kicked out the Lombards, and yet still succeeded. They restricted the Flemish, and yet still succeeded. Why can't the Africans kick out the Europeans, and yet still succeed?
They sure haven't had three centuries since independence.
@@meofamily4Although you are right in pointing out that this doesn't mean that Africa will never succeed as we can't realistically tell what will unfold within due time, It is clear that the British eventually learned that they needed to do what these industrious outsiders were doing to replicate their success. They may have kicked they out but they still learned their lesson. And some African countries still have not. That is the takeaway.
Actually, it kinda does. The “preface” news story shows the corruption and injustice of Zimbabwe’s government reneging on an offer to attract white farmers, and then evicting them and giving it to a politically-connected black. I am willing to bet very large sums of money that those white farmers were foreigners (probably European) who were expert at what they did. If allowed to continue on the land, their expertise would have made it a success. But because of Zimbabwe’s racism and xenophobia, they bit off their nose to spite their face and handed the farm over to a black from the Prime Minister’s office.
The juxtaposition with England’s willingness to allow expert foreigners to operate commercially in their country is stark. Because England wanted financial success and commercial preeminence and wanted their country to prosper, it didn’t matter who came from where as long as prosperity was achieved. Zimbabwe’s racist and xenophobic government will drive it to financial ruin. Currently Zimbabwe’s inflation rate is in excess of 200% and its per capital income is less than $1500 a year.
In Roman times in England it was thekeading creator of wool and woollen products.
The Venetians built the English financial system right after building the Dutch economy
Thank you
That's San Francisco. Please hire competent interns.
From where? US universities? You have to be kidding.
Telling the truth without discussing the core of the issue, isn't clever. It's cowardice and obfuscation. Here: average IQ. The reason is average IQ.
The reason why England was the home of the industrial revolution was that they brought in the Huguenots, under the special protection of Queen Elizabeth, who were basically the inventive and artistic talent in France. France was left behind because they persecuted their talent out of the country because of the Catholic Church. Later those people's descendants came to America. Lessons: Meritocracy is the only answer to a successful society. Tolerance and diversity attract talent. Victim mentality is how you end up at the bottom.
Did you know that Isambard Kingdom Brunel was educated in France.
No mention of Britain benefitting from colonizing and exploiting other territories?
What has happened to the ‘bread basket of Africa’?
We where sanctioned by the west
So basically the same reason why there are so little successful blacks in the states
What has this got to do with the future of African states?
Africa will eventually get it right.
Also many of the inventors and new industry leaders were puritan protestant's from Scotland and Ireland that were excluded from the medieval land ownership system and economic activities popular with the aristocracy and the church. Banned from the banks they invented shares. Banned from serf farming they were tax free; since that was the main point of taxation. Banned from Wheat and barley the developed Maize, squash and cotton. banned from the best ores they developed remote low grade deposits while finding canals & rail to get their ore & clay products to market. The Puritan gift created capitalism. Exclusion created their independence.
I would leave if I were a white South African
As a British woman I have always recognised the importance of immigration to this nation of mine. Fresh blood as it were rejuvenates a nation. Immigration brings in fresh ideas and can act as a catalyst to advancement. I still believe that we should encourage immigration. But there is a difference between immigration and economic immigration and we should be cautious has to how we manage immigration which at the moment we are not. Come here and metaphorically sit on my sofa, propping your dirty boots on my coffee table and I will ask you to leave and probably not very politely but come here and ask can help you make the coffee, I will invite you in and invite you to take a seat and stay and keep me company, we will get to know one another and find we have much in common. Not rocket science, just courtesy.
The western world is under threat.
Africa in general won't be an economic success for Africans until they sort out who they are, believe in themselves and begin to do for their own. Most of the nations in Africa are within borders drawn and enforced by outsiders. The result of that is the tribe remains the focus of loyalty where there is any and corruption the order of the day. There is no firm belief in the benefits of the rule of law or the equal and fair application of that law to all within the nations of Africa.
Even Sowell lost. He lost culture war to the hip hop types.
That was an interesting segment about the development of England's economy, but I did not hear a word that connected it to the nations of Africa, nor the title of the video.
Africa doesn’t have a City of London
This gentleman is over-rating the British success. I live in the UK, and I can guarantee him that today the UK is fast headed towards becoming a failed country. It is becoming an increasingly insignificant country, and the only thing it can do now is wistfully look back on what was once a 'great' empire. Thomas Sowell TV is over-attributing success to particular traits of people. In actual fact, if you look at the vast span of modern human history, different regions have had advanced civilizations at various periods of time, and then declined. Modern human civilization in fact mostly began in the Middle East (Egyptian civilization, Babylonian civilization, etc.), then moved to the lower regions of Europe (eg. first Greece, later Rome, etc.). At the same time, civilizations developed in the East, Indus Valley, China, etc. Many of these were advanced civilizations, and during much of this period, Northern Europe (including the UK) was mostly inhabited by a primitive people (the word 'Barbarian' for instance comes from the primitive Barbarian people, who were mostly German tribes who invaded and destroyed the Roman civilization).
Also, if you look at human history for the last 5000 years or so, it was the Chinese and Indian regions that were the most advanced and wealthy for a significant period of time. It is only in the last 500 years or so that the European countries went on to acquire the 'civilized' nations tag - first led by Spain, Portugal, etc., and it was literally only for about 200 years that the British empire ruled the world - literally a blip in human historical terms. But that has now come full circle. The British Empire is finished, the UK is fast declining (and headed the way of countries like Greece, Italy, etc.). The next couple of hundred years will almost certainly be dominated by the Asian countries, ie. China, India, Japan, and even Indonesia - and of the course the USA which is likely to remain a superpower in the foreseeable future. Given current trends, The UK and Europe generally are frankly going to be somewhat irrelevant in the coming decades, unless something dramatic or revolutionary happens with potential to trigger a new round of innovation and enterprise in the continent. As things stand, Europe has become obsessed with developing a Welfare model (lots of generous benefits and handouts and state support - no questions asked), without having the means or resources to support it. That has resulted in increasingly heavily financially debt-laden States with no incentive for new enterprise or innovation or wealth-generation, and there is a real risk of the entire edifice just crumbling (as they say in the UK - 'eventually the magic-money tree runs out!). Fortunately, the US hasn't fallen down this trap, and still is a nation that rewards risk-taking and effort rather than idling & 'life-style' - and that's why it will continue to be a business/innovation and wealth-generating country for the foreseeable future.
I’m confused on how the news excerpt about a singular event of recent times (within 100 years) relates to a widespread (more than 100 years ago) history of British cultural and industrial development. What is the intended meaning of the title?
people think that maybe britains success was all its own doing. fact is none of it could have happened without cooperation. it was/is the europeans greatest strength. and it exists nowhere else in the world, but the western world.
What the heck has this to do with african nations??
Listen to the first minute of the video and contrast with remainder concerning England.
I have always thought the issue would play that our culture and corruption. Not race. Like Dr. Cell is pointed out places like South Korea or Singapore or Finland are very wealthy because they do the right things for the right reasons.
They do the right things for the right reasons...I have a feeling you ignore the fact that just because you don't know everything that a person or nation does, does not mean it hasn't happened. All nations are corrupt in some manner because humans are in it and run it. Some just are far better at hiding it than others and wealth is not a indicator of moral and societal health.
Culture is a product of human activity. It stands as evidence that the races are different. People need to stop ignoring this.
@@joriankell1983 The races are different? Race has nothing to do with it and that should be the most obvious thing before typing what you did. Europe is divided into how many cultural groups despite at this point, everyone being intermingled with one another, yet still the cultural differences keep them separate, even among those not native to the land.
You can have two groups not living far from one another and have their own culture and there be no difference between them other than that. Culture stems from many things, beliefs being one primary factor and that followed by traditions, location, ect. Human beings can assimilate to any culture and there be no difference other than genetics. Most cultures today wouldn't exist without intermingling and at times, migrating after such.
Race is a construct that divides just as much as nationality. It helps identify certain aspects of each person, but usually only leads to classification to relegate their position in the world to another.
@@blumiu2426 then explain to me why everywhere in the world, without exception, whether a minority in a city or the majority of a nation, that black people are universally impoverished, their governments are corrupt, and crime is rampant? DESPITE having different cultures in different places?
@@blumiu2426 btw. Genetic differences can be measured. Let that sink in: genetic differences can be measured. We are not the same.
Same shit, different day!
The connection to African nations appears to be implied; I don't recall Sowell having explicitly stated that the conditions existing in Britain did not exist in Africa.
I knew something was not right when I saw the president of Zimbabwe in that picture. White people hate that man and his country. Their obsession with this tiny African country is psychotic😂
So where does Africa come in ? , the problem with this kind of thinking is assuming that all countries will follow the same path to economic success, even though history tells a different story, people still cling to their history
How can economic success he possible when the global economic system has been designed for a few to profit off the poverty of the global south?
The Lombard St shown in the video is in San Francisco, not London.
This is why government has become a hindrance government still wants the bulk of the people in the cities even though most of our power is diesel and gas, so small plants could be distributed every 40 miles or so, leaving sprawling land for food production instead of forcing everyone to go to the middle of dead land cities Which forces the lower income just stay in their poverty because they’re forced to spend gas money to go to work
Embracing innovation and capitalism were key with the promotion based on merit and skills over religion and nepotism. Plus rule of law and the sanctity of ownership.
In short, the exact opposite of socialism.
One sentence...Lo Eye Que.
@2:17 the video talks about Lombard St. in London but shows cars going down Lombard St. in San Francisco LOLOL
He didn't use feelings for what he thought
Because we are not British, we are not an island and we are not homogenous simple
I would not say that Africans can "never" mirror England's success. After all, the British Isles were in the receiving end of technology imports for thousands of years before they became exporters.
Only in comparison to western nations. Compared to einstein Im an idiot.
Mr. Sowell explains in detail why and how England achieved its wealth and power, yet he
never mentions the name Africa once let alone why the African continent has not produced
a similar nation! This video is not properly titled, in my view.
People not just blacks think success is an accident or good luck. That is seldom the case in my view. Regardless of the business it’s the owners effort and dedication that creates the business and if the have the right skills and ability it will be a success. Many try and fail but that’s just the way it is. We are talking about the successful ones. Most successful businesses seldom do as well after the original owner sells or passes away. Businesses not industries. Same is true in Africa. Those farms were created by the settlers and don’t stand a chance to survive when given to someone who lack knowledge. If they had the abilities they would already have their own farm or business anyway.
Yet people always blame others for their shortcomings. The Arabs, Chinese, Egyptians, Ottomans, etc all had early advanced empires that lasted for centuries. Should they apologize for it? Of course not! Now we are in a time albeit changing where European cultures dominate seem to be dominating. Why should the apologize for it. Everyone points out the unfair, savage and inhumane practices of the past. Don’t think Europeans (Caucasian’s) invented that. Just look back in history.
Britain's industrial advance didn't come from t'southeast and that London, it came from t'North and West, from rain and grit and grim, for 'tis grim up North 'appen.😉
Culture matters. Read the book written by African started men.
And there's the IQ thing.
Isn't that Mnangagwe on the screen? He claims that he didn't know about the Ndebele massacres after independence. And yet he was Mugabes head of ZANU intelligence.
You can make several deductions from my comment.
My country is riddled by nationalisation and corruption recipe for complete economic disaster
Oh look the biased newsroom Afrika. 🚮🙄😒🙄
I wonder if there is a meaningful difference in England's relation to European powers and African nation's relations to European powers?
Had one ever enslaved or subordinated the other? 🤔
This is clickbait I didn't want to read about the industrialization of Britain I wanted to read about the failure of Africans