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pretty telling that first reation of some here can be summed with: what is really white?

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[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Not many black people around where I live so I probably would not even notice

[–] Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

All of Africa would be without civilization, just isolated pockets of Asians and white people on trips to find themselves, now without local guides. They're all going to die unless the remaining governments organize rescue missions. You would hear about this.

Without civilization, it becomes difficult to sustain farms and mines, so even if governments fly in farmers, farm hands and miners to claim the fields and mines, the plants will wither and the mines will barely run. While I imagine most crops are produced for the local market that also died, African products for the global economy, chocolate, palm oil, gold and uranium, will see their prices shoot through the roof in anticipation of the inevitable crop failure and ore shortages. You would hear about this.

Inevitably, unclaimed land with huge amounts of profitable farmland and mines will receive claims, from China, who invested a lot into local infrastructure, former colonial powers reinstating their borders, or whatever remains of Arabian states whose populations didn't qualify, and also whoever could fly in some pioneers and reestablish trade routes. That will result in border frictions, skirmishes and maybe full on war. It's possible you would miss the war, I personally always forget the US-Iran war is still happening, so I'll give you that. US would probably stay out of that one, trying to restart its own agricultural industry.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

I never said I would not find out it happened. Probably hear about it in a couple days because even without all the consequences auch a high amount of people vanishing would be strange and reported on.

I would in my daily goings on probably not notice it because I cannot recall the last time I saw a black person more than just like at a glance. There really is just so few of them here