Why is it that the same people who whine about French colonialism, continue to reap the benefits of it?

[KostasKouvalis]

Same with North Africans, especially Algerians. I don't think any former colony hates France more than Algeria, yet so many Algerians live in France and in Algeria they continue to speak France and utilize French infrastructure.

And so many Africans from former French colonies represent France in sports, instead of playing for their motherland. And when they win, they always feel the need to bring up their Africanness.

If they hate the French so much, why don't they destroy everything France built and start from scratch?

[alice55]

Because they're hypocrite and completely stupid but mostly complete moron that don't even know how to properly read or write correctly...

We give them I don't know how many money, those countries literally blackmail us and threaten us every second to send all their criminal in France if we don't comply in giving them money and ton of others things but they obviously don't talk about that neither the algerian talk about how many French they took as slave...

[KostasKouvalis]

Yeah they definitely never talk about that. Hang on, I'm gonna send you something

[avery58]

I don't know about all that but I will say that I don't know why Algerians only complain about colonialism that affected them but are usually proud of the Moorish colonization of Iberia, or forget the Barbary slave trade.

[avery58]

And then we could say the same about the Spaniards complaining about the Moors lol

[KostasKouvalis]

That's a very good point. I can only guess it's because they view themselves as the master race

[avery58]

I wouldn't doubt it. I know that not all Algerians consider themselves Arab but there's plenty of Arab nationalists and many of them are racist

[KostasKouvalis]

The majority of them are Berbers

[avery58]

Yeah but many of them still identify as cultural Arabs, especially when they're living abroad. The only true Arabs are the ones from Gulf countries anyway, Levantine and North Africans are just natives of their countries that assimilated to the culture and use different dialects of the language.

[KostasKouvalis]

Yeah, Levantians are Semites, the same race as Jews. Levantian Arabic and Maghrebi Arabic are like completely different languages, especially Moroccan

[avery58]

Yeah and especially when you take into consideration the current Israeli/Palestinian conflict and realize that Palestinians are mostly indigenous to the land by DNA and most of their ancestors were probably Jews who converted Christianity (since from what I understand the Romans only expelled Jews from bigger cities and the upper class but didn't bother much with rural areas) then to Islam.

Just like in this video an Israeli man agrees with the theory but says that the main difference is that Palestinians denounced Judaism and their Jewish roots and embraced Arabism and Islam
https://youtu.be/7ytFneQASZ4?si=ZnZ_1Z7U6rNTPgGR

It's weird cause when we think of racism we usually think of black vs white or people that are completely different but the biggest forms of hostility are probably among those who are genetically most similar. Other examples of that are Indians and Pakistanis, and Turkish/Greek to extent or Russian/Ukrainian since the war broke out

[avery58]

Basically radical differences in ideologies or territorial disputes

[avery58]

And yeah I know that modern Jews are mixed as well

[ellefia]

You're right, they are hypocrites

[KostasKouvalis]

What part of Turkey are you from?

[ellefia]

Black Sea region

[KostasKouvalis]

Oh, that might explain why you don't seem like the typical Turk. Everyone makes jokes about Black Sea people. LOL

Are you in the east?

[ellefia]

I did not understand wdym 😂

[KostasKouvalis]

Which part?

[ellefia]

I live in the black sea region, not in the east,
But I can say that I visited many cities in Turkey. and by the way what kind of jokes lol

[KostasKouvalis]

When I said "east" I meant near Trabzon/Georgia. lol

That when you ask them for directions they will tell you, "Go right, left, left, then another right and ask someone else." And also that your signs aren't accurate, but I can assure you this is true everywhere inn Turkey.

But we had a Black Sea guy as one of our tour guides and he was a little coocoo!

[ellefia]

Ur signs are not accurate, wdym by this?

[KostasKouvalis]

They don't point in the right direction

[ellefia]

Oh no I am not near to Trabzon, and maybe he was cocooo but it doesn't mean all black Sea people are like that lol

[KostasKouvalis]

No from what he said he was an exception. He was talking about how he whispered Quran verses into his baby's ear, and he was passing off marriage customs in backwards Kurdish villages as traditional Turkish customs. He was also talking about how Turkish men marry European women, but when we asked him about Turkish girls marrying White Western men, he didn't like that😂

What part of the Black Sea are you on?