The first Europeans who conducted scholarly studies in Africa came up with these findings.
In 1670 the Scottish cartographer John Ogilby observed that Africans everywhere had an urge to steal, especially from foreigners. He observed that Africans would boast about stealing as an achievement. He concluded this was innate to Africans.
John Duncan, in his book Travels in Western Africa (1845) concluded that the predominant passion of Africans was theft, among their many other "depravities".
William Reade, in Savage Africa (1864), wrote: "The Africans are all of them thieves. They have no sense of honor in that respect."
Mungo Park concluded that stealing was the most prominent defect in the character of Africans: "We found the people thieves to a man."
Thomas Hutchinson wrote (in his 1858 book Impressions of Western Africa): "Show me a Black man, and I will show you a thief".
The Swedish explorer Charles Andersson believed that no one in Africa, from the king to the slave, would have second thoughts about stealing the shirt off his back if he could get away with it.
High intelligence often comes with heightened pattern recognition. You start noticing social masks, forced conversations, performative friendships, hidden motives, emotional immaturity, and energy that feels draining instead of nourishing. Many highly intelligent people also have more active nervous systems, deeper inner worlds, and lower tolerance for superficial stimulation, so solitude can feel safer than constantly shrinking themselves to fit environments that don’t feel aligned.
🇨🇺📉💔 La historia del comunismo dejó hambrunas, exilios y sociedades devastadas. Hoy el castrocomunismo añade otra forma de destrucción: el desmantelamiento demográfico de la nación cubana. El silencio y la legitimación internacional también forman parte de esa historia.
@mmpizonero No cambia nada. ¿Por qué no imponer todas las sanciones juntas a todas las empresas? ¿Qué hizo diferente la Antillana de Acero ayer para que la sancionaran hoy?