{"id":69,"date":"2019-06-09T14:08:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T14:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/?p=69"},"modified":"2026-06-24T05:45:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T05:45:27","slug":"someone-said-are-you-really-so-stupid-to-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"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.."},"content":{"rendered":"

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justgot1<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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cricketcat9<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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fgsshinyhoard<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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teddybearnova<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m sorry you\u2019ve been made to believe that the whole of Africa is poor, I really am..<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Reblogging for those of you who think Africa is only what the media and movies portrays it to be<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This fucks me up because it\u2019s scary to think that we can be showed something all our lives and not even know it\u2019s a lie<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And that my friend is the power of propaganda, indoctrination, and media<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Are these pictures of South Africa or of Africa as a whole?\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

@the-collecting-turnip<\/a> From top to bottom:<\/p>\n

1. Port Elizabeth (South Africa)<\/p>\n

2. Unknown<\/p>\n

3. Nairobi (Kenya)<\/p>\n

4. Pretoria (South Africa)<\/p>\n

5. Aburi Botanical Gardens (Ghana)<\/p>\n

6. Cape Town (South Africa)<\/p>\n

7. Pretoria (South Africa)<\/p>\n

8. Harare (Zimbabwe)<\/p>\n

9. Windhoek (Namibia)<\/p>\n

10. Windhoek (Namibia)<\/p>\n

To @kushandwizdom<\/a> this is a rather unfair portrayal of Africa as a whole since half of these are literally just South Africa.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

\nLuanda, Angola<\/b><\/p>\n

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Agadir, Morocco
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Lagos, Nigeria
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Cairo, Egypt<\/b><\/p>\n

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Port Louis, Mauritius<\/b><\/p>\n

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Abidjan, Cote d\u2019Ivoire<\/b><\/p>\n

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Algiers, Algeria<\/b><\/p>\n

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Tripoli, Libya<\/b><\/p>\n

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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania<\/b><\/p>\n

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Tunis, Tunisia<\/b><\/p>\n

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So, there, a much better case demonstrating the various major cities around Africa showing it isn\u2019t some technologically backwards continent, but actually pretty up-and-coming in the world of commerce.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I once was talking to my Ethiopian manager about ignorant people asking her dumb shit about her life before she moved to the states\u2026 <\/p>\n

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 \u201comg you have music there!?\u201d \ud83e\udd26\ud83c\udffe\u200d\u2640\ufe0f<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Rebloging, because we need to see<\/b> these pictures.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As for stupid questions:\u00a0\u201cdo you have grocery stores in Ecuador?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

These are great!<\/p>\n

A redneck neighbor once asked my mom (in the 80s) if they had cars in Peru. Sigh.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Los Angeles, California<\/b><\/p>\n

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Hartford, Connecticut<\/b><\/p>\n

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New Orleans, Louisiana<\/b><\/p>\n

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Camden, New Jersey<\/b><\/p>\n

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania<\/b><\/p>\n

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McDowell County, West Virginia<\/b><\/p>\n

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Flint, Michigan<\/b><\/p>\n

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Washington, D.C.<\/b><\/p>\n

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this American girl asked me if we had sparkling water in Korea\u2026. sis\u2026.. I have a soda maker at home\u2026. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

rabbitheads: for-southendgirls: lettingitoutabit: justgot1: cricketcat9: hockey-trash: fgsshinyhoard: the-collecting-turnip: 2ollux-double-bulge: teddybearnova: shez-a-b0mbshell: kushandwizdom: ches I\u2019m sorry you\u2019ve been made to believe that the whole of Africa is poor, I really am.. Reblogging for those of you who think Africa is only what the media and movies portrays it to be This fucks me up because it\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2261,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/2261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}