Originally Posted by
SealLion
Your still going to have corruption occur there with cops, such as having sexual relations as a tool for extortion, as was reported from there once as I recall having read on the internet.
this is a common worldwide practice of extortion/control/influence through threats, like the various evidence or 'dirt' on (government) officials, it is actually a customary habit to go out looking/digging for 'dirt' when handling lawsuits, or take lobbying for example, so it can be said that this kind of behavior is not frowned upon in some cases (double standards)
if you check out the different kinds of corruption like:
Code:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_corruption#Types_of_corruption
its interesting that many of them can be associated with a family & family relations (though in a most likely mild or benign form), so this may partly be the answer to where the (benign) roots of this kind of behavior originate from
on the other hand most of the examples of corruption, as described in the above link, are connected to our economic/financial/government system, or more generally to the power/control/profit trinity, meaning that if its already embedded in the people's mental picture of how things can work faster (or get done more quickly and so on) then many will ask themselves why would they always have to play the role of the exploited ones, when there are shorter ways (even though officially labeled as illegal or immoral) to accomplish their goals, besides the government will make sure one doesn't get proper solutions through normal/legal channels, combined with the inertia of bureaucracy it becomes a tempting option for those who could afford it
Corruption is like a disease if you ask me.
it may quite likely be a government sponsored one (intentionally or through incompetence/negligence)
Nigeria s a federal republic that apparantly is modelled like the US would be...Nigeria, also has it's problems of corruption even in government. It also has a poor human rights record
in many ways, it looks like the african version of usa (we had nollywood as the subject here before) or uk (through colonial influence), behaving just as a less wealthy & skilled version of them would, with a quite large population that is kept 'in check' through these religious conflicts, poor education, vaccination experiments and so on, and while enjoying their new found/created consumer paradise bubble, the citizens are probably unaware of who really owns their biggest companies, banks, the government itself, creates pointless conflicts, controls oil flow & so on
ITs' really sad and destructive to people when there exists this ethnic strife potentially coupled with religious differences. However,
things have been like this throughout history for millenia.
i wouldn't bet on that one, our history earlier than a few 100 years BC is a territory filled with (intentional) mainstream historical ignorance & laughable theories (supported by corporate & university power/dogma wielders), trying to paint humanity as some kind of primitive ignorant prehistoric tribe supposedly far inferior (despite of for example obvious ancient architectural grandeur) when compared to contemporary over-inflated mainstream conformist 'team players' ('experts'), so scared of independent research that they resort to persecution as if the middle ages never went away
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