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i hate problems. everything should work out perfectly all of the time

Someone said "Are you really so stupid to think that Africa has the same technological advances as us? If they did they would probably have clean water and not live in houses made of sticks and mud. Get over yourself and stop being so ignorant."..... Below is a tiny collection of images of the Africa they refuse to show you..

ches

I’m sorry you’ve been made to believe that the whole of Africa is poor, I really am..

shez-a-b0mbshell

Reblogging for those of you who think Africa is only what the media and movies portrays it to be

teddybearnova

This fucks me up because it’s scary to think that we can be showed something all our lives and not even know it’s a lie

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And that my friend is the power of propaganda, indoctrination, and media

the-collecting-turnip-deactivat

Are these pictures of South Africa or of Africa as a whole?

fgsshinyhoard

@the-collecting-turnip From top to bottom:

1. Port Elizabeth (South Africa)

2. Unknown

3. Nairobi (Kenya)

4. Pretoria (South Africa)

5. Aburi Botanical Gardens (Ghana)

6. Cape Town (South Africa)

7. Pretoria (South Africa)

8. Harare (Zimbabwe)

9. Windhoek (Namibia)

10. Windhoek (Namibia)

To @kushandwizdom this is a rather unfair portrayal of Africa as a whole since half of these are literally just South Africa. So Instead to add to this post and better dispel the myth of Africa as the vast wasteland of poverty most people think, I found a much more mixed collection of pics from various countries.

Luanda, Angola

Agadir, Morocco

Lagos, Nigeria

Cairo, Egypt

Port Louis, Mauritius

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire

Algiers, Algeria

Tripoli, Libya

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Tunis, Tunisia

So, there, a much better case demonstrating the various major cities around Africa showing it isn’t some technologically backwards continent, but actually pretty up-and-coming in the world of commerce.

hockey-trash

I once was talking to my Ethiopian manager about ignorant people asking her dumb shit about her life before she moved to the states…

the worst story she told me about was when she told a fellow student (at a fairly prestigious university) about a concert she went to back home. The other student responded with “omg you have music there!?” 🤦🏾‍♀️

cricketcat9

Rebloging, because we need to see these pictures.

As for stupid questions: “do you have grocery stores in Ecuador?”

justgot1

These are great!

A redneck neighbor once asked my mom (in the 80s) if they had cars in Peru. Sigh.

This is the product of poor world history in school & little current affairs coverage outside Western Europe, except for catastrophes, so all we see are the war torn, poverty stricken, disaster-affected parts on the news. And racism, of course.

lettingitoutabit-deactivated202

I bet most Americans who think that African countries are just completely poverty stricken have no idea what the US looks like in its poorest areas, not everywhere in the US is nice suburbs or unrealistically large apartments on tv

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Los Angeles, California

Hartford, Connecticut

New Orleans, Louisiana

Camden, New Jersey

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

McDowell County, West Virginia

Flint, Michigan

Washington, D.C.

goingtiny

Do you see the world as it is, or as someone told you it is?

hogwartsconsultingtimelady

This photoset proves you can make anywhere look great or terrible. It’s all framing and more people should know about that

gamebird

Worth a reblog. I don’t think the US version was on there when I first reblogged.

petermorwood

@dduane told me about being in Dublin Airport as a transatlantic red-eye unloaded, and hearing American voices complaining that (a) the Terminal Building wasn’t thatched and (b) the ads for high-speed broadband represented cultural imperialism.

fuckinfreddie

shout out to the people who never unfollow me for some reason even when i never post anything relevant to their interests

cristalplanetheart

meanwhilepoetry

“Why do you not fear me as the others do” asked Ares, “do you not know that I am the God of tragedy and pain?”

Aphrodite’s hand stroked his hair gently, “my darling, what do you think love is if not a synonym for tragedy and pain. We are both a darkness and a devouring, just in different ways.”

- Nikita Gill, Excerpts from Maidens, Myths and Monsters

therealpoesdaughter

I couldn't help myself. I got annoyed with Monster so I had to take a break and put it on the back burner for a bit. But I got this idea to do a story about Kabal and Stryker actually being detectives. So I started it.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13949187/1/The-Game

@hell-on-training-wheels, @the-06, @en-lumine, @iceangelmkx, @flowerynameslover

@en-lumine

Hahahhaah xD

No one:…..

Absolutely no one:…

People in Colorado:

P.S. I’m unnerved by how accurate this is 😂 @hell-on-training-wheels @the-06 @flowerynameslover @iceangelmkx @en-lumine

P.P.S. Here’s part 2 😂

#lmaoooooo :D

dennybitte

by Denny Bitte

8 Songs, 8 People

I was tagged by both @therealpoesdaughter and @iceangelmkx. Thanks guys! :)

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1. Favorite song at the moment: Beggin’ - Frank Valli & the Four Seasons (although the Madcon version remains my top fave!)

2. A song you associate with your favorite ship: Nights in White Satin - Moody Blues (can by applied to any ship tbh)

3. A song that could be about you: Give In To Me - Michael Jackson

4. A song you think is overrated: Aww man. Too many, honestly.

5. A song that reminds you of a good memory: Best of Me - Bryan Adams

6. The last song I listened to: All The Stars - Kendrick Lamar ft. SZA

7. A song that makes you laugh: Shiny Toy Guns - Le Disko

8. A song I want my mutuals to listen to: Doubts by Gorgon City

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Opening this to whoever wants to do this!

liltotcommunity

rae-does-stuff

Even if it’s the most randomest of sh*t, feel free to ask

dei2dei

Seriously. Inbox open. I know I mostly post MK-writing related stuff, but I’m also into Overwatch (though I’m on hiatus from that, the whole thing with them recently soured me hard) and Genshin Impact. I have a major thing for big casts and lore. (I’m also a multilingual long-term expat who does fiber arts, so I’m Out There :tm:)

headlesssamurai

“Within me trembles the world.”

— Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

meanwhilepoetry

““Do you ever wonder why mortals seek love so fervently?” asks Hermes, filling his goblet with more of Dionysus’ best wine. Dionysus is thinking of Ariadne again as he smiles sadly, “They walk through life only two steps ahead of death. Imagine what it must be like to know you are finite. You would constantly seek the beauty of love too, if you knew you were doomed. If you knew how your book ends, wouldn’t you want to fill it with beautiful things like love, too?””

— Nikita Gill, Excerpts from Maidens, Myths and Monsters

meanwhilepoetry

You know what I love about good people? Somewhere some stranger in this world remembers them solely because of a simple kind act they did. What a beautiful legacy to leave in someone’s head. That they deserve kindness because once, a complete stranger was kind to them.