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I think that is a very naive at best, discriminatory view at worst of Sudan.

Many African countries face extremely unique challenges, which can only be assisted with empathy, education, and awareness as a part of their nation building program.

> many African countries face extremely unique challenges, which can only be assisted with empathy, education, and awareness as a part of their nation building program

Interpreted generously, it might be a reference to Africa’s borders being halfway nonsense. If we swapped eastern Canada and western Mexico into the United States, it would be difficult to build the sort of common empathy and identity that countries require to persist. (Not going to touch adding back the indigenous population.)

> If we swapped eastern Canada and western Mexico into the United States, it would be difficult to build the sort of common empathy and identity that countries require to persist.

How would that be harder than it is with the parts of Eastern Canada and quite giant portion of Northern and Northwestern Mexico, including over a quarter of its west coast, that actually were “swapped into” the United States?

> how would that be harder than it is with the parts of Eastern Canada and quite giant portion of Northern and Northwestern Mexico, including over a quarter of its west coast, that actually was “swapped into” the United States?

Territories. Not substantial foreign populations. Hence the parentheticals.

Mostly those borders were always going to be nonsense no matter who came up with them. One village is this group, another village is that group then the next is also to the first group. It's like that in almost every country. Obviously the British and French really screwed up a lot of stuff but there's a reason people who criticize the borders never offer any suggestions of where they actually should have been.

>Many African countries face extremely unique challenges, which can only be assisted with empathy, education, and awareness as a part of their nation building program.

This line is such vapid mishmash that it is hard for me to believe it wasn't generated by GPT.

I stand by my words even if they are hard to stomach in this site.

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