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Don't need to bring tribal politics into it. SA suppressed something like 90% of the population for decades, and then handed over control. Now the government is completely dominated by a single party. That's a recipe for disaster no matter what color your skin is, or what region you live in.

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Singapore is effectively a single party system too, but look how well they live. It's definitely a mentality / cultural / tribal / ethnicity thing; btw just look within the US: Blacks don't do well, but Asians do. Regardless of how many parties participate in decision-making.

Given my own experiences from travelling to 43 countries, the difference in drive, willingness to work, abilities or lack thereof / lazyness shown in daily life is certainly very visible between Africa and Asia, Europe, America.

Have you considered that skin color is more than just skin color? That a people, a culture, is more than the amount of melanin they have?

The idea that everyone is a blank slate wrapped in different colors of skin seems quite reductive, if not insulting to the beauty of human diversity, given the real science behind genetics.

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