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0 pointsomonra9y ago0 comments

What I meant was not a civilization in the abstract sense of the word but rather what we consider modernity (as brought to us by Europe).

My understanding is that Asia is widely expected to get there without Europe - but it's not clear for Africa.

In the case of America there actually were quite a few civilizations on the upswing when Europeans arrived (and killed everybody off with their diseases). I am yet to see the same said about Africa.

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meira9y ago

I think you probably watched too much whitewashed movies about the Egypt and internalized that it is an European country, don't you?

carapace9y ago

On a visit to England, Gandhi was asked, "What do you think of Western civilization?"

He replied, "I think it would be a good idea."

I think you're confusing "modernity" with the steam engine and the Scientific Method. Little else distinguishes modern civilization from those of the past. The Renaissance was "re-birth" of something that had gone before, etc...

Everyone thought the Egyptians were the height of Civilization, except the Egyptians themselves. They thought it was the Nubians.

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