AmRen video: Eugene Valberg - African Language and the African Mind American Renaissance Conference 2008
Dr. Valberg draws on his years of experience in Africa to explain how Africans differ from whites. Fascinating insights.
Dr. Valberg is an American philosopher who has lived for nearly 30 years in Africa. His observations have led him to surprising conclusions about what Africans think about themselves and whites.
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This is one of my favourite American Renaissance conference videos. Dr. Eugene Valberg is an American Ashkenazi Jewish philosopher who's lived in Africa for almost 30 years. Here he describes how native sub-Saharan African languages often show limited vocabulary, and concepts that are missing in European languages for example. It may be very difficult to express Western concepts with African languages since many of these don't seem to exist in African languages. He points out what this implies for the sub-Saharan African mind.
He also gives several examples, of how Blacks lack motivation, and perceive time, and generally how their morality differently. They need to have an external force to make them follow laws, they tend to have less internal impulse control. Morality is not internalized for them, as in Europeans. They tend to be people for whom all rules are based on an external authority. Pre-planning, and forethought are not as developed in Blacks, compared to Whites or East Asians. He also discusses the propensity towards violence, torture, aggression and rape in sub-Saharan Africans, with some vivid detail in example. Many take pleasure in cruelty, and torture; coercive sex doesn't seem to be considered as really wrong in parts of Africa according to Dr. Valberg. It is a brilliant lecture and I encourage all to view it.
This is one of my favourite American Renaissance conference videos. Dr. Eugene Valberg is an American Ashkenazi Jewish philosopher who's lived in Africa for almost 30 years. Here he describes how native sub-Saharan African languages often show limited vocabulary, and concepts that are missing in European languages for example. It may be very difficult to express Western concepts with African languages since many of these don't seem to exist in African languages. He points out what this implies for the sub-Saharan African mind.
He also gives several examples, of how Blacks lack motivation, and perceive time, and generally how their morality differently. They need to have an external force to make them follow laws, they tend to have less internal impulse control. Morality is not internalized for them, as in Europeans. They tend to be people for whom all rules are based on an external authority. Pre-planning, and forethought are not as developed in Blacks, compared to Whites or East Asians. He also discusses the propensity towards violence, torture, aggression and rape in sub-Saharan Africans, with some vivid detail in example. Many take pleasure in cruelty, and torture; coercive sex doesn't seem to be considered as really wrong in parts of Africa according to Dr. Valberg. It is a brilliant lecture and I encourage all to view it.
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