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[–] zen_music 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago  (edited ago)

The gesture is all the more powerful to me since my impression of Uganda is not one that would assume women are valued all that highly there in the first place.

i.e. It's got to be really awful for Uganda to give a shit.

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[–] pissed 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

You're right about Uganda (the land of Idi Amin), hardly an enlightened country. And if things weren't bad enough, US missionaries really fucked the place up.

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[–] Zardoz 3 points -2 points (+1|-3) ago 

Nope, Ugandans do better than a lot of other Africans for education (not liberal college enlightenment, so you're right about that) and missionaries did not 'really fuck up the place'.

Missionaries are part of the reason Uganda is one of the more successful and best advancing countries right now - see title. That's also part of the Christian missionary influence. Not wanting Rich Saudis shame-fucking your women after forcing them into getting sterilized (so they don't produce half-black kids).

Of course, Ugandans are who sends missionaries these days. source: I work with them. Better educated than you.