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Why are the lowly hyenas given an african accent?


Why does Shenzi speak in an african accent and the majestic lions speak in an american (or british) accent? And the monkey has an african accent too. Low key racism.

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It's a valid criticism, and just one of those things that make you wonder why no one involved in the film making process appears to have noticed it or thought it was a problem.

Unfortunately, you'll always have those individuals who greet any observation like this with the charge that you are being "overly sensitive" or "PC". If you get too many more responses to your opening post, we can expect to see a few of those.

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Interesting.

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Did it hurt activating those lonely brain cells?

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Because an African accent is low class and spoken by people who never had any cultural impact on the world, or provided it with ONE invention. The mighty majestic lions are given the higher class white accent because it needed to be imported, like South Africa, which didn't exist until someone white guy from Europe decided that desolate area would make a good port on the way to Asia. But of course, blacks came along to ruin that and pretend it was theirs all along. So I guess history is low key racist, facts too.

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What are you talking about? No cultural impact? Mathematics, geometry, surveying, metallurgy, astronomy, accounting, writing, paper, medicine, the ramp, the lever, the plough, mills for grinding grain and all the paraphernalia that goes with large organised societies, All came out of Africa.

Not to mention the beautiful artist who created wonders of the world like the pyramids, The Walls of Benin in Nigeria. The food culture that they brought to America, most Southern food inventions were created by Africans.

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Oh you seem to think land around the Mediterranean is the same thing as Africa. Gotcha. Thanks for the laugh. Yeah man, those Africans who never found Madagascar off the coast surely traveled through the desert, while the ones who invented ships, education, trade, etc, were land locked and never did anything in Africa LOL What a great historian you are.

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Do you know that Africa is a continent? Do you know that Eqypt and Nigeria are countries on opposite sides of the African continent?

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Did you know continent is a relatively new thing, and before that it was one super one? And that black people hold no control over either.

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You are trying to say that Africans didn't contribute anything to society when they clearly did.

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Africans in this topic, the way it's being used, it's not referring to every human who lives in Africa. If it did, then everyone there would speak with an "African accent" but as your massive cope, you have to stretch the meaning to include the ones who actually did the contributing, just to make a false point. The people near the Mediterranean DO NOT speak with an African accent, and are not even from there. There are all European settlers who built up that area in the name of empires like Greece and Rome.

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What 'false point'? You keep ignoring the Walls of Benin as the amazing feat of engineering that it is because it destroys your argument.

You are trying to say that Africa didn't contribute to society, you are being both racist and stupid.

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A wall? Are you fricken serious right now bro? Do you even know what entails contributing to society? Post your wrist now.

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God you're dense. The great wall off China is a Fucking wonder of the world.

The walls of Benin City and surrounding areas were described as "the world's largest earthworks carried out prior to the mechanical era" by the Guinness book of Records.

You were very fortunate to have been born in an area where you had access to education, clean and abundant water and food. The fact that you don't understand your privilege and disparage people who haven't been as fortunate says a lot about not only your intelligence but shows your ignorance as well.

Do you believe that the Native Americans had no cultural impact as well?

This is why people need to travel smh

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Where would the NBA be without Africa, think about it

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