Im in the US right now and well the president and many US citizens regardless of race call African countries shit holes. My friend's country(south africa) is only 25 years old and at 25 the US didn't have all 50 states and slavery was still a thing. I guess my question is why do western countries criticize African countries so harshly when they are simply taking the same path to greatness that western nations took but without brutally enslaving and stealing resources? They literally just got independence like last week and are sorting out the kinks like they did so what's with the constant ridicule when they went through similar hardships in their journeys? I mean even after almost 250 years we still have issues with race and discrimination, student debt, croynism in govt etc etc so why do we criticize countries trying to develop?