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/lit/ - Do blacks literally have no concept of the future?
Anonymous No.24657858
Do blacks literally have no concept of the future?
>Time is a composition of events which have occurred, those which are taking place now and those which are immediately to occur. The future is virtually absent (to the African mind) because events which lie in it have not taken place or occurred, and therefore cannot be a part of time. Time as separate does not 'move'; only events come and go. Modern change has imported into Africa a future dimension of time...
t. John Mbiti, African Religions and Philosophy

If so, does this explain why Africans are so underdeveloped as a civilization and as a race?
/b/ - Do blacks literally have no concept of the future?
Anonymous No.938771554
Do blacks literally have no concept of the future?
>Time is a composition of events which have occurred, those which are taking place now and those which are immediately to occur. The future is virtually absent (to the African mind) because events which lie in it have not taken place or occurred, and therefore cannot be a part of time. Time as separate does not 'move'; only events come and go. Modern change has imported into Africa a future dimension of time...
t. John Mbiti, African Religions and Philosophy

If so, does this explain why Africans are so underdeveloped as a civilization and as a race?