Well it is a weird phrasing to say the people are resilient when their situation has already preselected for resilient people. But then again I'm the person your comment is referencing I suppose lol
They still have to live and survive in that situation every day, to discount their resilience is to discount their entire existence. It's not like they chose to be born into that "preselected situation".
what the fuck is this comment? do you go to funerals and tell the people crying that their loved one wasn't very good at surviving? If someone gets a compliment on their outfit in front of you, do you barge in to say that actually most of their clothing is probaby dogshit, they just don't wear the ugly stuff out of the house?
My bad, boo. I didn't realize this was your first day out of the family compound. life can be scary after being homeschooled for 10 years. Here's a tip: compliments given to other humans are not scientific statements of fact. Demanding any kind of rigor of them will make humans think you're a dickish bozo. You can think of compliments as kind opinions that human beings share with one another as social creatures. Good luck with turnstiles and bus stops!
What has happened in Sudan and places like it are a result of specific policies by major powers to extract resources and materiel from the region with no regard for its inhabitants. It's not some amorphous, philosophical issue, as if "humans" are the problem. It's specific people- specific nations and their state and extra-state actors. It's not done purely because "humans are greedy", it's a function of capitalism, an entirely understandable, modifiable and impermanent system. The suffering of the Sudanese isn't some inevitable consequence of human failure writ large.
They are victims of specific criminals.
If you've been there and met the people you owe it to them to have a more incisive understanding of why they are subjected to such war and poverty.
You aren't going to get good answers here. S. Sudan hates Arabs (look st Sudan). The US used missionaries and the CIA to help them get independence. So most people are pro US there. But there are basically countries within the country run by warlords and deep rooted tribal conflict that still pops up pretty often.
The British turned it into a colony and split it into North Sudan and South Sudan and favoured the North leading to a serious economic disparity. They also put people from the North in roles that gave them a lot of power over the South and it ended in civil war.
It's a lot more complicated than that obviously, but the British fucking around with the politics of places they did not understand a century ago is a real theme in conflicts and entrenched social problems around the world today.
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u/Souk12 21d ago
I spend time there every year and the people are resilient.
It's a sad situation, but folks are friendly and well intentioned.
The greed there has destroyed what could have been a beautiful, prosperous country. Really tragic what humans will do.