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One of the things that bugs me is Africans who cheat Africans from the Diaspora. Hey Africans, go ahead and charge higher prices to everyone else, but not us. Didn't you get the memo that we're family?
This cheating seems to take place mostly in the cities, including at the airports, including by government workers.
A traveler returning home to become reacquainted with Africa through Ghana, describes the following experience. He went to Beggar's Land, a place where the lame. blind and really poor live, both young and old.
The traveler, along with locals, went to Beggar's Land to help bring food and money to the people. In doing so, he wanted to record some of it on his cellphone. Unknown to him, his money fell out of his pocket. The people chased him down and returned all of it. It was a substantial amount of money.
This confused the traveler because he basically said you would think these poor people, who likely never saw that much money, would take the opportunity to keep it. The traveler said everybody seems to be a brother's keeper.
I say, based on multiple videos of people talking about their African experiences, that the brother's keeper mentality seems to increase the more you move away from the cities. This is the preliminary sense I get. This matches the dog-eat-dog rat race competitiveness nature that seems to eventually permeate city culture. The city being a place where you go and get money, get paid.
With that in mind, it doesn't really matter where you are in the USA, almost everyone's been poisoned with selfishness when it comes to “free money from a stranger finder's keeper's” mentality.
The traveler basically said that people recognize and respect the fact that they are all related, thus then this respect carried over to and was extended to the traveler, even upon the first meeting. People really look out for each other every day.
The last thing the traveler said is that “competition,” is a word he doesn't even think exists in the villages he's visited. I'm certain he was referring mostly to the rural areas. This is not to say “non-cut throat take advantage of the unsuspecting” behavior doesn't exist in the city to some degree.
In most countries, even those with money and other resources, most people will not only keep what you drop or don't lock up, they will actively seek ways to take what you don't lose and do lock up.
This then is like a tale of two cities, two mindsets, two values, two spirits.
Are we surprised as to which spirit manifests in which place in Africa? In the World?
All this confirms what we already knew. Financial poverty can leave you bankrupt, but poverty otherwise, corrupts every thing you touch.
This then is what causes rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief, doctor, lawyer, indian chief, to be the same person as the commander in mischief.
Beggar's Land is richer and freer than most places. As Kwame Ture said, these are the poor, the pure. The ones who understand the kind of unity we must emulate.
What is the difference between the greater sense of humanity in Beggar's Land & lesser sense in other lands not called Beggar's?
The former is filled with more accurate foundational knowledge of self compared to simply being educated, as is the case in other lands. That type of education is part of the claim to fame that ultimately defames and shames itself for lacking the logic of eternal health and wealth.
