2007-01-07 05:00:01 · 8 answers · asked by vanessa 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Community Service
afrcans are searching for diaomnds in africa, but while they do so they are getting killed. cuz gangs take the diaomds from the mines. and if they refuse they'll get killed
2007-01-07 05:23:43 · update #1
because diamond is the hardest substance on the planet. Nothing can even scratch it, except another diamond. Because it is so hard, it polishes up nicely.
2007-01-08 01:27:51 · answer #1 · answered by Marmalade P. Vestibule III 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Diamonds only get the attention they're getting because Africans have decided that they too can sell the diamonds for themselves - and the Israeli's and Lebanese (controlling diamond marketing in Africa) will not accept that. The gangs are hired by them.
They discredit any diamond an African digs, call it a blood diamond even though every diamond they have sold out of Africa has come at a heavy cost to the black Africans.
See the latest attack against diamonds from Zimbabwe - which are being mined by white Zimbabweans on land DeBeers had insisted to be diamond free for fifty years.
Greed by the cartel is the problem with diamonds.
2007-01-07 18:07:06 · answer #2 · answered by brian s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It isn't important to all humanity. It's the symbolism. If you get a diamond wouldn't you be excited to get one. I know I would have been before I read this article. Some diamonds are taken from war zones like the Ivory coast and enter the legitimate trade through neighboring Ghana, where they are being certified as conflict free.
When people got married in the early 1940s, diamonds were for aristocrats and De Beers was only just beginning its marketing push for the middle class — one that still continues today. I'm The message is: If you really love her, you'll spend two months' salary on a ring; it's only true love if it's a diamond; like your love, a diamond is forever
2007-01-07 07:32:41 · answer #3 · answered by lorrnae 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They're not important to humanity, they're important to people who don't realize that they're as common as rain water and the DE BEERS company is one of the most evil, SCUM BAG corporations on the face of the earth.
2007-01-07 05:09:41 · answer #4 · answered by Created A Madman 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is not, unless if it used to feed millions of hungries arround world!!
2007-01-07 05:11:29 · answer #5 · answered by Safy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they are expensive, and pretty.
2007-01-07 05:03:32 · answer #6 · answered by jessica.lanelle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they arent, you are superficial
2007-01-07 05:01:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
are they? i think not as much as u think.
2007-01-07 05:20:27 · answer #8 · answered by implosion13 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋