Why have Black people not invented as much as White people in their native homelands?

Question

Africa is to Blacks.
Europe is to Whites.

White people have invented far more than Black people ever have. What could be the reason?

Answer 1

Need.

But i see you left out the Asians (especially the Chinese), who gave us, among other things, paper currency, gunpowder, firearms and body armor, to name a few

Answer 2

That is a very good question. Over the short term, say the last few decades the answer would be obvious, the European countries were more advanced so the people living there had more information available to them to build their ideas on. I think you would have to go pretty far back in history to see where Africa got left behind, or where Europe, and Asia got ahead. A lot of African Americans have contributed some very important inventions and many more may have if they would have had the advantage of a college education.

Answer 3

ummm...this just tells me that you have no idea about the scientific community.
Almost all the low levelresearch is done by minorities. Yes I know what I am talking about. MINORITIES. which includes Blacks..specially in the medical and pharmacitucal industries. Indians, Asians, Jews and other minorities in the engineering field.
But the white man being a majority is always appointed to be manager or he oversees the research. And guess what all the hard work of the minorities is attributed to the manager.
That is why you don't hear the low level researchers being mentioned.
Indeed I need to mention Sir Issac Newton as the best inventor of all.
My point is not to say whites are dumb. All humans have and are createdequal. But white people love to use other people and take advantage of others. From the cotton plantation to our current industry civilization.

Answer 4

If it makes you feel better both black and white have invented more in America than Africa and Europe put together! I can't say that about Asians for the simple fact that China alone has more honor grad's than we have Population in the whole United States.

Answer 5

well originally,............. many parts of africa were dry, desert, and arid.
Consequently,....... low rainfall areas often meant their food sources were often just adequate,....... rather than plentiful or substantial.
Therefore,........ they were never really in a position to consider the arts, technology, and science, because the neccessary resources to enable this were simply to lean and to limited.

Conversely,........ europe was very different.
Their climate ranged from very cold, to resonably hot,....... providing ideal conditions for concetrated agriculture, virtually throughout their entire continent.
Instant access to such abundant food resources, meant time was not wasted following the seasonal rain and grasslands, needed to feed livestock etc, enabling them more time to study and develop faster.
The arts followed, then education, then industry, then boats, ships and aeroplanes.

But money, education, and knowledge, are africas 3 biggest handicaps.
The extreme mineral wealth is there,...... but their development, utility, and scientific skills are still only basic.
These are some of the key reasons,....... that africans are so slow out of lifes starting blocks.....
So,......... until they begin to produce more scientists and more professionals,....... their progress will continue to be slow.

Answer 6

We got the first taste of digital-electric technology, to be one-sided.. So we had the chance to advance. African's evolved in primitive ways.

But really, it is said that we all came from Africa, that that is where the human race began. It's not a matter of Black against Whites... And isn't it also true that it was in Africa the first cardiological experimenting occured.. Much to think about. Beware that if I didn't have to leave home right now, You'd have a page of non-plagiarized history to read right now lol.

Answer 7

The problem is we don't know what African native peoples invented hundreds and thousands of years ago. We know of several complex civilizations that existed but there is little written history. Europe is a much tougher climate, people were forced to invent ways to be able to live. Africa being a much more welcoming climate did not require the same level of technology to survive.

In my opinion.

Answer 8

According to biologists, humans originated on the African continent.

Since the mother continent (still is, btw) the best and most conducive environment for human existence, it requires little innovation to prosper and advance in that environment. All the humans who left Africa have had to contend with challenges to their existence, while those who stayed enjoyed the optimum food, climate and environment.

This doesn't make the ones who left any smarter, stronger or prettier than the ones who were able to stay. It just means that, in the wonderful adaptation capability that humans have, they have had to adapt to adverse conditions and therefore they have socialized themselves to do so.

Even to this day, I think people of European descent place a higher value on getting credit for inventing something than people of color do.

The exception that proves the rule is the Amish, who are white people that have chosen to halt the technology they are willing to use at the 1850 level, since that is the last tech environment that could be sustainable across the whole planet. And the other white people call them 'shtupid' for not being technologically advanced, the same as they call any other ethnic group that doesn't embrace and value inventions at a higher level than anything else.

Oh well, what else is new . . . .

Answer 9

Because of environment they did not need to adapt as much. When it is 110 degrees and you are living in Sub Saharan Africa, see how much you get done.

Answer 10

No need they lived in a Natural Paradise to invent their own substitute.