What's on Mthoko's mind?

A lot of times, people in the developed world claim diversity is causing an increase in crime in their nation-state. I have to wonder if this is even partly true seeing the tribalist crimes being committed daily in Africa, a continent with very few nation-states. Seeing that lands with one race/ethnicity have very low crime rates in the stats, there's even more to back the argument that diversity increases crime. But I'd still insist that it's a lack of national unity or so-called "social cohesion" more than just the concept of "foreigners have moved into the neighbourhood". Lands with no common identity tend to suffer from crime caused by "diversity" more frequently because there's no moral identity , people have different concepts of what is wrong & right.  Of the eight countries with the lowest crime rates in the world, five can be considered ethnostates. The solution:  Quiet often we want to forcefully integrate minorit...

We've adopted many European traits & customs on the African continent & by our reluctance to decolonize or follow our own ways, one could assume that we want to be European. In South Africa, I blame this in the sheer oversaturation in Eurocentricism when we're younger. So much so that it becomes a decades long process to re-Africanize at times.  The thing is, you become whatever you see as better when you were young. If your people are dominated by a foreign culture, you'll likely see that culture as better & often adopt it (sometimes subconsciously) in many ways.  Here in South Africa, coming from our seperate, respective indigenous tribes; we seem to have spent no time in embracing a South African identity our forefathers never embraced to begin with themselves. The trouble with unsuspecting simple folk like precolonial Africans is that they are just trying to survive, concepts like clothing attire & language are seldom important in their quest to just get...