An Africa being forcibly dragged into the modern world

Danielle 2022-03-20 09:01:27

When I heard that many European and American students volunteered to go to Africa to be doctors or teachers, I always thought they were doing meaningful things, but now I always think that they are just satisfying their own vanity. Like the male protagonist in it, they only went to Uganda because of boredom. In fact, they don’t want to help the black people in Africa at all. I’m afraid they feel that black people are ignorant and low-level races. This kind of mentality is just like Einstein felt that the Chinese were a lower race a hundred years ago, and Einstein was already recognized as a left-wing intellectual.

Why has Africa always been plagued by disasters, despite being independent, yet its development is not as good as it was during the colonial period. The black hands of colonialism have never left Africa, is Amin really a lunatic? So who exactly brought this lunatic to the fore? In the first half of the film, Amin seems to be sincere and enthusiastic, and has a simple charm despite his low culture. I think the Ugandans' support for him at that time was also sincere, and this charm also attracted men who did not know much about the world. Lord, but in the second half of the movie everything began to go downhill, Amin became a black hole, countless lives and hopes were annihilated, the male protagonist found that he had even become an accomplice of the tyrant, and fear overwhelmed him. He is actually unflattering between his motherland and Uganda. Just as Amin commented on him, "You are nothing", which is what Amin said when he was most sober. The medical career he once devoted himself to is paralyzed, and Sarah, a friend he once had a crush on, leaves. In the loneliness and hopelessness, he developed a relationship with Kai, but to be honest, I despise the male protagonist very much. After Kai was pregnant, his cowardly appearance was disgusting. His self-righteous feelings brought only disaster to Kai. , as the doctor accused, you didn't think about it at all. So Kai's son looked at him with resentment, and the male protagonist had absolutely no way to defend himself. And his final result, in fact, I feel indignant, it seems that all the European and American blockbusters have to save the white male protagonist and the white female protagonist in the end, secretly smuggling private goods and saying that the locals In fact, the heart of the lighthouse. In fact, there is nothing incomprehensible in China. During the Anti-Japanese War, our people desperately saved the American pilots. When the American pilots were caught and killed, it was already the overall situation. As for the lighthouse, I really want to too much.

The expressions of the British colonists inside are really disgusting, their citizens are still regarded as chess pieces, and they are thrown away when they are useless, not to mention the Africans who are not even people in their eyes. Are the disasters in Uganda all Amin's fault? The colonialist intervention never left from the beginning to the end. Their attitude towards Amin was the same as that of the Japanese towards Zhang Zuolin. They supported him when it was useful, and wanted to get rid of it when it was useless. In fact, the situation in Uganda is not as good as it was during the Beiyang melee, at least no matter how weak China is, it has gone through thousands of years of feudal society, and the experience and lessons of thousands of years can make these mud-legged warlords know what to do and what to do and learn from books. Things not to do. Uganda, on the other hand, is a completely pre-modern, backward society that is completely in the stage of tribal development, and is completely at a loss after being dragged into the modern world. In fact, looking at the development of the whole of Africa over the past few decades, it is the strongman politics that can bring peace and stability to the country. Of course, the premise is not to search too much. The so-called Western democratic politics is completely unacceptable. In fact, these colonists themselves know it. , or else why are they all dictatorial tyrants? The whole black Africa can see the past, and it seems that only Rwanda, led by Kagame, is left, but Rwanda is only after the massacre that almost wiped out the species, and their leader Kagamena is even more rare in a century. great man. But the probability of this good luck is even lower than that of Mars hitting the earth. I am afraid that no one really knows where the future road of Africa is.

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  • Sarah Merrit: I hope you don't mind me saying this, but, you seem an unlikely candidate for this kind of work.

    Nicholas Garrigan: Why, 'cause I don't wear socks and sandals?

    Sarah Merrit: Touché.

    Nicholas Garrigan: I still want to make a difference, you know.

    Sarah Merrit: Really?

    Nicholas Garrigan: Yes, really. Want to have fun, too, though. Bit of adventure. Something different.

    Sarah Merrit: That's a lot of things.

    Nicholas Garrigan: Is it?

  • Idi Amin: You see, Jonah? This is the sort of man a president needs around him. Someone who is not afraid to speak his mind.