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Barely a country? Without a shred of infrastructure?

You haven't been to Ethiopia, or learned about its history, clearly.

Ethiopia is not only very much a country (with that name since 330 AD), but one orders of magnitude older and more deeply rooted in human history than, for example, the USA. The earliest known hominid archealogical evidence is from Ethiopia (circa 4 million years ago). It's the only African nation not to be colonised by genocidal Europeans. Haile Salassie - former emperor of Ethiopia - led the country to victory over fascism, and changed the direction of Euro-African relations, and is revered in the Rastafarian religion. This barely scratches the surface of how worthy of your attention Ethiopia is.

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That was merciful. You went easy on that guy, mentioning only items of cultural and religious significance. Next time hit him with the big guns - Ethiopian contributions to theoretical physics, chemistry, architecture, engineering, philosophy, industry, computer science, and pure mathematics.

All those so-called contributions, yet they can’t save themselves from a $925 GDP per capita and 69% of people being classified as “multidimensionally poor” [1].

Ethiopia is a typical useless African nation marred by excessive corruption and mindless tribalism.

1 - https://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/Country-Profiles/MP...

Try to manage a single day having given up all the elements of advanced civilization yielded by an Ethiopian mind. We'll see if you make it to lunch.

E.g. - ABS (Applied Bottle Sciences) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e-IMCcWdcM

I wonder if Ethiopians can also survive by giving up all the elements invented in the Western and Asian world…they can’t.

Ethiopians inventing a few things here and there is of no use if it’s a country where the majority lives in poverty because of corruption and violence caused by brainless tribalism.

Widespread poverty in Ethiopia started with the Italian fascist invasion.

Typical excuse for African nations run by morons elected by an equally moronic populace.

Many formerly colonized countries achieved unprecedented levels of success.

But in Africa where corruption and tribal violence is hindering development, the foolish kleptocrats running the show always try to hoodwink their population by blaming long dead and gone colonialist powers.

To be fair, it can have a gigantic culture, have been super influential historically, scientifically, and culturally speaking with smart, educated people... and still be completely in ruins and have 0 ways to actually enforce any rule of law. Syria for example, is exactly like that.

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