Aspergers and (dislike of) black culture?

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01 Jun 2012, 12:27 pm

It would be hard for me to dislike black culture growing up Irish in America me and my family where treaded the same as African Americans.

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01 Jun 2012, 12:33 pm

ruveyn wrote:

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African civilizations are some of the most underrated in history. Other than Egypt and Carthage, at least

Cartago was a semitic city. The spoke and wrote the same language as the Phonecians.

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That is correct, but when it comes to civilizations of Africa, it is usually one of two mentioned

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01 Jun 2012, 12:42 pm

Vigilans wrote:

ruveyn wrote:

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African civilizations are some of the most underrated in history. Other than Egypt and Carthage, at least

Cartago was a semitic city. The spoke and wrote the same language as the Phonecians.

ruveyn

That is correct, but when it comes to civilizations of Africa, it is usually one of two mentioned

Sad but true Africa is such a beautiful country.

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01 Jun 2012, 12:50 pm

Joker wrote:

Vigilans wrote:

ruveyn wrote:

Vigilans wrote:

African civilizations are some of the most underrated in history. Other than Egypt and Carthage, at least

Cartago was a semitic city. The spoke and wrote the same language as the Phonecians.

ruveyn

That is correct, but when it comes to civilizations of Africa, it is usually one of two mentioned

Sad but true Africa is such a beautiful country.

You mean "continent"..

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01 Jun 2012, 12:52 pm

Vigilans wrote:

Joker wrote:

Vigilans wrote:

ruveyn wrote:

Vigilans wrote:

African civilizations are some of the most underrated in history. Other than Egypt and Carthage, at least

Cartago was a semitic city. The spoke and wrote the same language as the Phonecians.

ruveyn

That is correct, but when it comes to civilizations of Africa, it is usually one of two mentioned

Sad but true Africa is such a beautiful country.

You mean "continent"..

Yeah continent but still a beautiful place I'd love to visit Africa.

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01 Jun 2012, 1:22 pm

Take off your western goggles for a second and realize that you can't "see Africa". To "see Africa" will take almost an entire lifetime, since you're visiting a continent.

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01 Jun 2012, 1:23 pm

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Take off your western goggles for a second and realize that you can't "see Africa". To "see Africa" will take almost an entire lifetime, since you're visiting a continent.

That's a bit of a solemn reminder - I'm an American and can't claim on that level that I've seen America.

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01 Jun 2012, 5:53 pm

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It would be hard for me to dislike black culture growing up Irish in America me and my family where treaded the same as African Americans.

Were Irish deliberately infected with syphilis as were black prisoners in Georgia back in the 1930s? How many Irish have been lynched, their bodies desacrated? How many Irish were bought and sold as slaves?

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02 Jun 2012, 9:21 am

HereComesTheRain wrote:

Take off your western goggles for a second and realize that you can't "see Africa". To "see Africa" will take almost an entire lifetime, since you're visiting a continent.

For real.
The African continent is three times the size of the USA. The Sahara alone is about equal in size ot the USA. So its not like "seeing Malibu".

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02 Jun 2012, 9:26 am

I still can't get over how many people dislike hiphop. You know there is such a thing as political hiphop? Or the type that deals with social issues? Hell, when hiphop started out, that was one of the main points of it, to highlight the classism and institutionalised racism.

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02 Jun 2012, 9:28 am

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The sound just isn't appealing to me.

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02 Jun 2012, 10:38 am

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The sound just isn't appealing to me.

Hmm, I'm hardly a hip hop expert, but have you listened to any Gil Scott-Heron? He was a poet and proto-rapper and even I could hear his total brilliance. It's kind of fun to see his influence on political music in rap, reggae and punk.

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02 Jun 2012, 7:29 pm

I hate gangsta rap but love the early stuff like Run Dmc,Fat Boys etc.
My favorite genre is Reggae!

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02 Jun 2012, 8:00 pm

I reached back and bought this maybe a month ago - love it:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDba3pizHe0[/youtube]

I'm wondering what happened to 'this' side of American diaspora sound. It seems like when rap came along it wasn't as weird or love/hate for people as jazz was and once the music industry got a hold of it they smashed it down into almost pure hoi polloi.

edit: the other thing I laugh about - I listen to something like this and then I listen to something like Alice In Chains - Sludge Factory or some of their other instrumental weirdness, and I can pretty safely guess what may have fueled a lot of those idea.

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02 Jun 2012, 8:47 pm

The are two sorts of psychological styles Apollonian ---- favoring reason, logic and deliberation. And Dionesyian favoring emotions, unrestrained behavior, feelings and lots of whoopie.

So called "black culture" may be a bit too Dionesyan for Apollonian Aspies.

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02 Jun 2012, 9:08 pm

MagicToenail wrote:

edgewaters wrote:

Kjas wrote:

The sound just isn't appealing to me.

Too much jazz influence for me ... but I used to be nuts for Toots and the Maytals, and some of the other earlier stuff in that general milieu

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