Having observed Africans for a considerable period of time, the author says that they are full of their ego selves, that they live mostly from their egos and defend their ego selves and the result is self centered behaviors and the social conflicts and the wars that characterize Africa.
He believes that African egos need to be shrunk to reasonable levels if Africans are to have a sense of society and work for the common good. He says that to the best of his knowledge Buddhism and other Oriental religions are the best means for shrinking, even eliminating human sense of separated selves (Western Psychotherapy also works but is very expensive).
The paper recommends that Africans become Buddhists so as to either shrink or eliminate their separated ego selves. The paper provided a review of Oriental religions and some pertinent aspects of New Physics.
WHY AFRICANS SHOULD BECOME BUDDHISTS
Have you related to Africans? How do you see them? How I see them is how I see me, so I am not merely projecting what I see in me to them; I am not merely seeing something in me that I do not like, deny that it is in me and project it to other persons. I am talking about us, Africans.
How I see us, Africans makes me believe that we have serious problems with our self concepts; we have selves that need to be changed. I believe that until the African self is modified that what Africans seek, political and economic development is going to continue eluding them. Africans cannot be economically and politically developed if they continue having their present self structure. No economically developed human beings out there are like Africans in their self structures.
Africans are full of their ego selves. Putting it bluntly, Africans are raw, unmitigated egos; spirituality and civilization has not shrunk their egos. They are proud egos. If you do not understand this phenomenon and said something that made their swollen egos feel belittled they fly off the handle and become angry.
Africans are quick to anger. They are excitable beyond belief and upon the slightest provocation fight.
Africans are full of egoistic opinions on every subject under the sun, opinions that were merely ego constructions of reality but not based on facts. To protect their ego based opinions they easily fight with other Africans. The sad part of it all is that they think that it is manly to be egoistic; they are unaware that other people, especially Asians see being egoistic as being unrealistic and immature!
In one minute Africans are calm human beings but in another minute they are excited and would fight you. I believe that the other races have observed this Africans tendency to quick emotional excitation. People try to understand it; some say that it is due to Africans evolution in the hot tropics. That the hot Sun made them thin skinned and easily somatically aroused.
May be been born in the tropics has something to do with Africans excitability (by Africans I include African Americans) the question now is what to do about it. This paper is not engaged in causal analysis of a perceived problem but in how to solve it or at least cope with it so that folks are less prone to giving in to childish temper tantrums.
Of course, the above statements about what Africans do are generalizations, and if you like stereotyping of them. Clearly, not all Africans behave as the picture painted them with broad brush. In every generalization there are exceptions. That been said the writer stands by his observation that most Africans are egoistic and excitable. Until he is corrected he sticks to the evidence shown him by his eyes.
Whatever is the origin of Africans tendency to egoism and excitability I propose that Buddhism would help Africans reduce their egoism and excitability.
Where is the evidence that Buddhism helps people become less excitable? Look at Asians. Most Asians are either Hindus or Buddhists or Taoists. Asians tend to be calm in demeanor. I believe that their religion and philosophy is largely responsible for their calm emotional status.
I believe that if we can give Africans the religion and philosophy that makes Asians calm we can make Africans calm. When Africans become less egoistic, less full of their ego selves hence are less excitable I believe that they would become more able to do what they have to do to become politically and economically developed. As they currently are, I do not believe that Africans can mount economic development; they are too egotistical, too self seeking to do what serves the collective good hence work for the larger polity to make economic development possible.
And for what it is worth, let us state the obvious: the Asian is on the verge of taking over the world economically (those with economic power, sooner or later, have political power hence Asians would also become the political lords of the universe, as the white man currently is); Asians work harder than Europeans; Asians do better than white folks at schools; Asians generally have higher IQs than white folks (and, of course, much more than black Africans).
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WHY AFRICANS SHOULD BECOME BUDDHISTS HAVE NO EGO SELVES
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