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    97 KB Anonymous 10/03/11(Mon)18:25 No.4433559  
    Most of the modern borders of African countries were created by European imperial powers with little thought of the ethnicities, religions, cultures, or history of the native people. A lot of people who didn't get along very well ended up sharing countries together.

    If you could redraw the map of Africa to minimize religious, ethnic and political conflict, how would you do it?
    >> Anonymous 10/03/11(Mon)18:27 No.4433565
    >implying anyone on /int/ knows enough about Africa to do that
    >> Anonymous 10/03/11(Mon)18:27 No.4433567
    Same goes for central asia

    fucking Brits fucked up this badly

    look at those -stan countries

    fucking mess
    >> Anonymous 10/03/11(Mon)18:28 No.4433569
    >>4433559
    drawn by the league of nations and then the UN.

    not by any european power.

    try again faggot.
    >> Anonymous 10/03/11(Mon)18:28 No.4433572
    Lol @ having already done this. God I'm a loser. Brb, making my map more presentable.
    >> Anonymous 10/03/11(Mon)18:29 No.4433574
    most of /int/ would just use nukes to accomplish this
    >> Anonymous 10/03/11(Mon)18:29 No.4433581
    >>4433569
    >League of Nations
    >UN
    >not European Zionist NWO
    >> Anonymous 10/03/11(Mon)18:31 No.4433595
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    How about everyone who likes living in a desert gets the top part of Africa, and everyone who likes living in a jungle gets the bottom part of Africa.
    >> [☯]김치 !NAo.KiMCHI!!qxtLmR9jT9G 10/03/11(Mon)18:39 No.4433634
    I would draw a border around it, and establish a quarantine after airlifting the humans (as opposed to the n1gs)
    >> Anonymous 10/03/11(Mon)18:42 No.4433651
    interesting topic OP, here's a bump
    >> Anonymous 10/03/11(Mon)18:48 No.4433680
    >implying before Europeans showed up there weren't warlords going around drawing arbitrary lines
    >implying this isn't true for all countries with at least on totalitarian leader in their past.
    >> Anonymous 10/03/11(Mon)18:50 No.4433695
    >>4433559
    pretty decent post from kimchi... but only in appearance.
    I guess he think that japanese need not apply since they're not humans, right?
    koreans be sneaky'n shit.
    >> Anonymous 10/03/11(Mon)18:55 No.4433715
    The british really don't give a fuck about geography and just draw straight lines to separate nation. Just look at egypt, or the USA.
    >> Anonymous 10/03/11(Mon)19:11 No.4433788
    Lame. Looks my map is too large a file to be uploaded.
    >> Anonymous 10/03/11(Mon)19:14 No.4433799
         File1317683663.png-(2.9 MB, 1420x1352, Africa_ethnic_groups3.png)
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    Trying again...
    >> Anonymous 10/03/11(Mon)19:15 No.4433803
    >how would you do it?
    I'd give the map to the Africans and wish them best of luck.
    >> Anonymous 10/03/11(Mon)19:15 No.4433807
    >>4433799
    Looks kinda weird because I had to size it down in mspaint. Oh well.

    Linguistics fag here, I did this as a proposal for one of my classes, ended up getting rejected because it wasn't in the scope of the project, professor liked it though. I know plenty of people complain that linguistic similarities don't always mean cultural similarities, which is true, but the odds of finding common ground with those who speak a different language isn't found very often. Also, some cultural similarities were taken into account.

    There are discernable ethnic lines that aren't just by tribe in Africa, however, the differences within the group are broad seeing as how they've been living in tribalism. Within the trappings of a modern state, I think most the borders I drew could work. As for the middle of Africa. Fuck. That place is really nothing but tribal differences. It's all Bantu languages, but the diversity is just so great, I put them as a gigantic UN protectorate instead of drawing 500.000 micro-states. Relevant ethnic groups are in parentheses, next to state names, which were mostly drawn from historical empires.
    >> Anonymous 10/03/11(Mon)19:35 No.4433886
    >>4433807
    they tried Senegambia before and we all know how that turned out.
    what's to stop the same thing happening tothe other countries you have made?



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