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<blockquote data-quote="Leonard D Neubache" data-source="post: 1327794" data-attributes="member: 11069">This video is intense. It makes you realise how alien some people are to your own way of thinking.[MEDIA=youtube]f5BeQ1w4bfA[/MEDIA]This black woman is super angry that a bunch of &quot;fake ramadan AYrabs&quot; are &quot;protecin&#039; dey shit&quot; with &quot;AY KAY vordy zevens&quot;.So I&#039;m listening to her speak and I realise that she&#039;s using the term &quot;protect&quot; as a negative verb. In her mind the act of protecting something from theft is a sin. And I recalled that I read a bunch of anecdotes from someone who lived in Africa for a time who explained that the mere idea of property in Africa is a somewhat foreign concept to many of the tribes and the idea of theft is also almost intangible to them, since anyone who wants something by definition feels they have a more valid claim to that thing than the person who &quot;owns&quot; it. Ergo ownership is defined by whoever wants something more at the time.It&#039;s like looking at footage from something happening on another planet. Her attitude apparently appears to be that businesses ought to have insurance and be left undefended so they can be looted in whatever passes for an orderly manner (where looting is concerned).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Leonard D Neubache, post: 1327794, member: 11069"] This video is intense. It makes you realise how alien some people are to your own way of thinking. [MEDIA=youtube]f5BeQ1w4bfA[/MEDIA] This black woman is super angry that a bunch of "fake ramadan AYrabs" are "protecin' dey shit" with "AY KAY vordy zevens". So I'm listening to her speak and I realise that she's using the term "protect" as a negative verb. In her mind the act of protecting something from theft is a sin. And I recalled that I read a bunch of anecdotes from someone who lived in Africa for a time who explained that the mere idea of property in Africa is a somewhat foreign concept to many of the tribes and the idea of theft is also almost intangible to them, since anyone who [I]wants[/I] something by definition feels they have a more valid claim to that thing than the person who "owns" it. Ergo ownership is defined by [I]whoever wants something more at the time.[/I] It's like looking at footage from something happening on another planet. Her attitude apparently appears to be that businesses ought to have insurance and be left undefended so they can be looted in whatever passes for an orderly manner (where looting is concerned). [/QUOTE]

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