Do African men enjoy fighting and killing more than other races?

Question

Let's hear from people with real African experience.

Answer 1

Hmm, 5th racist I've found today on Yahoo!

Answer 2

Looking at violence as a matter of genetics verses culture may have some value, but the peoples of African have more genetic variation than any other continent as well as large variations in culture.  You seem to be suggesting the the propensity for violence is  a function of geography. Perhaps you should rethink your hypothesis.

I have read suggestions that tribal societies value violent behavior but civilizations prevents violent men from having children. They used this to explains the unwarlike behavior and  relative military weakness in the modern world of descendants of the old civilized societies around the Mediterranean, Iran, India, China and Central America.

Answer 3

Please please have a little more respect for yourself.  

You must be a very very sad person

Answer 4

You're raciiiiiist

Answer 5

Very good answer from Jim Z on " cultures of honor. ", which are some times mistaken for cultures of violence.

When all your assets are portable and you can not call 911, due to your business, plus having to cultivate a stance of " toughness ", then the murder rate can really rise.

I would not be too hard on the PC crowd, as they are not informed and can not think for themselves.

Answer 6

They almost never advertise Europe's violence as they do with Africa. Likewise they hardly advertise the beauty of Africa but stay focused on the negative aspects.

The Western media is very deceiving.

Answer 7

No they don't. The crimes they do are just more publicised, and cycle crimes, those that are in poverty and expeirience voilence leads to more and so and so on.

Answer 8

No, some africans like using other africans to do their bidding while they sit in their palaces.

But then, that's no different from the rest of humanity.

Answer 9

no they dont!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 10

i predict a riot

Answer 11

thats a real dumb question!! and to think u wasted points asking that....

Answer 12

Do people like you get some kind of a kick out of inflammatory statements?  I bet in "real" life you're not so confrontational.

Answer 13

How on earth would you measure that ?  How would you measure "enjoy" for a start.  No scientific way to do it, you sound ignorant and racist

Answer 14

Well isn't it just the typical response coming from people with their head up their @arses to to call a person a racist when posting a valid question. If that's the only way you know how to answer a question I feel pity for you all.

To answer the question, and respond to the nit-wits, I don't know of many white people going round hacking women & children to death with macheties and putting tyres filled with petrol ouround their necks and setting it alight.

Addendum:

Dave 911. What are you taking about no problem with Africa 'till the whites found it. What do you mean "found it", are you completely thick. Africa has been known to the "white" for a millennia, and the Zulu's (for example) went about killing other tribes. It's a national pastime, what about Rwanda etc

Answer 15

Im African British but I learnt that George Bush WW1 & WW2 nuclear bombs being used involed mostly white people if not all. But I dont generalize like some people. Hold on this is the dumbest question ive seen. When did Africa become a race? t**t!

Answer 16

stupid ignorant question.  

Why not just stereotype a bit more - i like this one - all men called James S are w**nkers,

Edit - yes it is a racist question because this is race based prejudice which supposes a negative charcteristics because of their race - get a dictionary and look up the word.  Sorry just realised you would not do that cos you would not like the truth so here goes -

Macquarie Dictionary defines racism thus: the belief that human races have distinctive characteristics which determine their respective cultures, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule or dominate others

Answer 17

I live in Africa and I would like to point out a few things by way of response to your question:

1) Africa has numerous countries in it with radically different ethnic groups, heritages, languages, customs and cultures.

You can say any one thing in particular is "African".

2) I don't think that any race "enjoys" killing and fighting - I am not sure how you drew this conclusion

3) The africans you see on the news killing are using machetes because that is what they have easy access to. If they had guns, they would use guns, and then the news about Africa would look similar to news in many other places.

4) People raised in a culture of violence and suppression tend to react to things with violence and suppression. A long history of colonialism was not a good thing for Africa.

Answer 18

nope.

Answer 19

there was no problem with Africa until us whites found it and got greedy,we didn't ask,we took and the Africans have been paying the price ever since so no,they dont enjoy fighting and killing,who would ,they just want to survive like the rest of us do,and they survive the only way they know how,look no further to Africa's problems then the white man,we started it and we are still taking ,we are the ones that need to learn not the native African,i guess saying sorry is something governments haven't learnt to do yet

Answer 20

yep,those vikings/germanic tribes and scythians were more quiet knitting types.

Samurais were not warriors they were just great sushi masters.

Only black men are violent.

Answer 21

That's a hard question to answer, as one has to sort through the nature Vs nuture question.  I've long wrestled with the question myself.  Those that dismiss nature without a thought are simply the brain washed that don't wish to consider thinking about the evidence, both pro & con.  

African Americans do commit ~55% of all murders in the US, but most of this "might" be attributed to culture & economic conditions. I've only visited Nigeria briefly in my travels & know very little about the rest of sub Saharan Africa.  However, I fear the political climate forbids collecting this evidence you are requesting.

Because some propensity for violence may be endemic to certain Africans, all Africans would be immediately tagged as violent prone... instead of attempting to find a gene that influenced the behavior, most would immediately label all Sub Saharan Africans as violent.

When analyzing available information one should not forget the attrocities of Hitler, Stalin, Mao & recent events in Bosnia. Religion does seem to play a part in Africa's problems & certain Islamic groups play a part in these outbreaks of violence... in short, there's no easy answer & it would be foolish to jump to conclusions.

Asian & European violence does appear to be more government or leader directed & less an emotional or riot type situation as in Africa.

Edit:  Notice the mentally incompetent pin heads that jumped on you for asking this? This is an example of what I was talking about... the ignorant will always oppose the quest for knowledge & attempt to foist their ignorant opinions on others..

Answer 22

No.

This is not about nature vs nurture, it is has quite simply been absolutely proven otherwise that  'racial' characteristics simply do not effect behaviour. At all.  

It seems to be a difficult concept for some to grasp that race simply doesn't exist in this way.

'African men' does not equal a race, it means a people from a continent that are of male gender.  A more specific question might merit more meaningful answers.

You may not realise the racist implications of this question so I wouldn't accuse you of being a racist.

Answer 23

What the **** are you talking about?

Answer 24

I don't have any African experience but I have read that many of the culture traits in American blacks that most people assume comes from Africa actually comes from a culture in the Scottish highlands.  These people used to be called interestingly, Rednecks.  Slave owners were quite often from this area and their culture survived in America even though it died out in Britain.

Answer 25

They might, if they met a James S on the veldt.

Answer 26

nope

Answer 27

Why dont we give them proper weapons and let them kill each other in a more humane manner and get it over and done with quicker, and not just Africa, all the other countries who go to war  in Europe and and the Middle East. People kill out of fear for their lives and their families lives, not because they like it. Stupid cu*t