africa is the cradle of mankind and man migrated to the 4 corner of the world.?

Question

Why did those who remained behind not develope as much as the migrators

Answer 1

I believe the oldest human remains where found in Ethiopia not China as suggested. As the for the "superior" development of the tribes that moved to Europe and Asia I think that settlers moving to the colder climates of the northern hemisphere probably had to develop more advanced tools and society structures to cope with the changing conditions and harsher environments (remember that we are talking about the ice age here not the Europe/Asia as it is today). However, the ability to create and develop is as innate to the native Africans as it is to the Euro-Asians. Different environment have simply forced different groups to behave in different ways.

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Answer 2

Its because of traditional roots. The whites took away the traditional believes from the slave, and they forgot what kept people together and started to worship money like the western worlds. The ones that stayed behind still have the traditional roots and believe that without those roots they cannot survive the cruel world. I'm an African, and I believe that the rest of the world only see's the bad side of Africa. At the moment Africa is developing slowly, but we are getting there, i will not trade this continent for any other in the world, especially my country, Namibia. Small country with a population of 1.9 million, so big traffic jams, no bank robberies, no air pollution, and a clean desert.

Answer 3

how do you quantify development? they developed in a different way . But the people who move to a different land and environment must develop to adjust to the different surroundings, the most suited of the developed species survives. But the environment in which they live changes even if they don't move away, so those who have stayed behind also developed, its not all in the colour of the skin. This is a hard area to quantify without knowing the genotype's of alot of different people, maybe the use of micro-arrays could be the way forward in solving this problem so that we can analyse the changes in the human genome over time and propogation.

Answer 4

well first of all the oldest human remains are in china, not Africa. In fact i think they have found older human remains in Wales than Africa.

Secondly how do you measure development.

But assuming Africa is the cradle etc, and assuming you are measuring development by western standards - then the answer would be long periods of rule by either bad colonials (by which I mean Belgium and Germany, and to some extent France) - followed by communist rule under Marxists or Trotskyists. America's independence wasn't exactly trouble free. Give Africa 200 years or so and i'm sure some of the countries would have "developed" to our standards now - by then of course we will have dropped back to their current standards.

Answer 5

Not true, they have developed as much as we have,just in different ways. I think socioeconomic factors and the milder environment and abundance of resources has made for some differences. We adapt to our environment. It shows up differently.

Answer 6

I am sure they would have. If not for some Imperialst p*gs who initially kidnapped and sold them off as slaves and much later colonised them and stripped them of wealth & culture, degraded and debased their humanity made them feel worthless and sub-human inferior. Sometimes acting under the guise of religion!!

Answer 7

Because they are do not want to develop and stayed back

Answer 8

Because they were content with their environment and lived in accordance with it , and still would had Europeans not destroyed the land through greed .

Answer 9

The migrants did not want to stay with the inferiors !!

Answer 10

I question your premise about unequal development, to say the least.