Trump attacks protections for immigrants from ‘s***hole’ countries

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(02-02-2018, 03:42 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: I'm curious how many of us on the board have been to Sub-Sahara Africa. I'm not trying to call anyone out here. But I am curious.

I have not. I have met several people from there. I've learned enough to not trust stereotypes or the short glimpses we get from media. For example, a lady in my Sunday School class is from Nigeria. She was just telling me this weekend about how people from the different tribes and different religions (primarily Christianity and Islam) interact there. It is far more intricate and complicated than I would have imagined, with much more cooperation rather than conflict or disagreement.

Southern Morocco is the closest I have come.  Funny, we have a Nigerian student in our student rental now. A really nice person who brought us a fish dish for Christmas.  She seems a little shy discussing her country, though.

By the way your post reminded me of a point made by the scholar of ethnic conflict, Donald Horowitz: "An Ibo may be . . . an Owerri Ibo or an Onitsha Ibo in what was the Eastern region of Nigeria. In Lagos, he is simply an Ibo. In London, he is a Nigerian. In New York, he is an African."   Where "those people" see a rich and layered diversity of peopleS on their own continent, including myriad tribal/national histories, we often don't.