By the end of the century, the world's population will once again be black. The most striking moments of the struggle of African Americans for their rights

“I Have a Dream” was performed at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, the famous speech of black preacher Martin Luther King, which became a recognized masterpiece. oratory. On that great day for the black population of the United States, August 28, 1963, King led a procession of 250 thousand people to the memorial erected in honor of the president who had once abolished slavery, and uttered words that marked a decisive stage in the struggle of the African-American part of the country for their rights.

We look at a photo chronicle of events that proved that just a few people can sometimes change the life of the entire country and millions of their compatriots.

1. In 1958, the Black Civil Rights movement began in the United States, which ended official racial discrimination against citizens, ending in 1968. Before these significant events, in many cities and states of the country the principle of segregation was in effect - the separation of population groups by racial. Blacks by various means were not allowed to participate in the elections. There were laws according to which blacks could not study in schools and universities together with whites, they had to occupy places specially designated for them in public transport etc.

2. African Americans were prohibited from using common entrances to buildings with whites, eating in common cafes, using common taxis, and drinking from common fountains. In addition, government officials judicial system and the police had White color skin and, accordingly, fully supported these legal inequalities. Blacks always called whites "Mr." or "Mrs.," although whites rarely accorded blacks this polite address. Whites counted on their obedience; resistance from blacks seemed unthinkable at that time. Many white Southerners were convinced that African Americans had accepted and even enjoyed their role as second-class citizens. But southern politicians opposed this decision. "Citizens' Councils" were created - groups that subjected economic sanctions to any blacks or whites who dared to advocate integration.

3. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old black seamstress at a department store in Montgomery, Alabama, was detained and then fined for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger, as required by local law.

4. After the arrest of Rosa Parks, Ed Nixon, who headed the local union of sleeping car conductors, called on the black community to boycott public transport in protest.

5. In the photo: Rosa Parks. The Montgomery bus boycott was soon led by a young black priest, Martin Luther King.

6. Thanks to the efforts of King and members of the boycott committee, the protest of the black population lasted 381 days and went down in history under the name “Walking for Freedom.”

7. Protesters had to walk to work (some of Montgomery's black citizens were transported to and from work by black taxi owners at bus fares), and local bus companies suffered heavy losses.

8. Despite the serious ideological split in society, America stood firmly on the path of democratic development, which implied legal equality and freedom for all citizens of the country. In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that school segregation condemned black children to the “stigma of inferiority” and that southern governments should quickly create single schools for whites and blacks. However, these changes caused violent opposition from the white population.

9. September 25, 1957. Little Rock Central School Consolidation. In the photo: 15-year-old Elizabeth Eckford. According to the memoirs of Elizabeth Eckford: “there was complete chaos, I looked around and unsuccessfully tried to find at least one kind face among the people around me... seeing an elderly woman, I wanted to ask her for support, but she... spat at me.”

10. On the same day, contrary to the decision Supreme Court, the governor of Arkansas ordered the police to blockade the school and prevent 9 black students from entering it.

11. 1957 A soldier gives an African American student with a bicycle a ride to school. The crowd looks disapprovingly, the photographer takes pictures from the sidewalk, not daring to come closer.

12. 1958 There are protests across the country demanding equal rights. In Virginia, parties are being organized to "bring together" young people with different colors skin.

13. New stage The civil rights struggle began in 1960, when on February 1, four black students sat in white seats in a segregated lunch counter at a Woolworth department store in Greensboro, North Carolina.

14. They were forced to leave, but the next day dozens and hundreds of other black students followed their example. Thus began a wave of sit-ins, in which activists entered “whites only” establishments or sat in white seats and demanded to be served, refusing to leave. By the end of March 1960, they were already held in more than 50 cities. These were reinforced by "lying", "kneeling" and "bathing" demonstrations in libraries, theatres, churches and swimming pools. White students also joined the black protesters. At first, these actions were carried out spontaneously, but already in April 1960, “The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee” was formed.

15. In the photograph of correspondent Bob Edelman, a crowd of white, civilized Americans mocks two participants in the movement for the rights of blacks.

16. The progressive white population also actively supported the struggle for democracy and civil rights. Then it became clear that development is not possible without freedom, and all citizens of the country should have freedom.

17. Nevertheless, the racists continued to offer fierce resistance. In 1963, Alabama Governor George Wallace declared, “Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” On June 11, 1963, an incident occurred at the entrance to the university when Wallace blocked the path for the first two black students at the University of Alabama, Vivian Malone and James Hood. On June 12, 1963, black activist Medgar Evers was killed on the threshold of his home in Jackson, Mississippi, by a bullet from white racist Byron de la Beckwith.

18. Police arrest protesters, May 1963, Birmingham, Alabama. Almost immediately, members of the Ku Klux Klan bombed a black Baptist church, killing four girls. The following year, their supporters near the small town of Philadelphia, Mississippi, killed three civil rights activists (two whites and a black). This crime attracted the attention of the whole country (the film “Mississippi Burning” was made about this case in 1988, and the organizer of the murder, Edgar Ray Killen, was convicted only in 2005).

19. President Kennedy sent a bill to Congress in June 1963 to provide broad desegregation and anti-discrimination measures for black citizens. To put pressure on Congress, mass rallies and demonstrations were organized in many US cities demanding the adoption of this law. On August 28, 1963, the “March on Washington” took place, in which more than 250 thousand people took part. This day became a true celebration of the unity of whites and blacks.

20. On that day, Martin Luther King spoke of freedom, equality and patriotism: “We cannot turn back. There are those who ask those dedicated to the cause of civil rights, “When will you calm down?” We will never rest until our bodies, heavy with fatigue caused long journeys, will not be able to get overnight accommodation in roadside motels and city hotels. We will not rest as long as the Negro's main mode of movement remains moving from a small ghetto to a large one. We will not rest until the Negro in Mississippi can't vote and the Negro in New York thinks he has nothing to vote for. No, we have no reason to rest, and we will never rest until justice begins to flow like waters, and righteousness becomes like a mighty stream.”

21. “I do not forget that many of you came here after going through great trials and suffering. Some of you have come here straight from cramped prison cells. Some of you have come from areas where you have been subjected to storms of persecution and police brutality for your desire for freedom. You have become veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work, believing that undeserved suffering will be redeemed."

22. “But there is something else that I must say to my people who stand on the blessed threshold at the entrance to the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not give rise to accusations of unseemly conduct. Let us not seek to quench our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.”

23. “I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a country where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by their individual merits.” On July 2, 1964, US President Johnson signed the Congressional civil rights 1964, which prohibited racial discrimination in trade, services and employment. Martin Luther King, who was awarded the Nobel Prize peace, began a campaign in Selma, Alabama, to get blacks on the voter rolls.

25. Montgomery Freedom March, 1965 (Photo by Buyenlarge/Getty Images).

Due to colonialism. The source of distribution was Spanish. negro(“black”), which in turn goes back to lat. niger, late lat. negrus, negra (“dark”, “black”) and Greek. Νέγρος ; word soon black person appears in Russian as well. With the rise of European imperialism, colonialism, colonial mentality and pseudoscientific racism in the 19th century, the word spread widely both in everyday speech and among scientists. After the end of colonialism in the second half of the 20th century, the official use of words derived from the Spanish negro in a number of languages ​​of the world has greatly declined and now applies mainly to vulgar speech (for example, since the 1970s in the United States, the word Negro practically replaced by the word English. black, which means “black”; in France the word fr. Africain- "African".).

English speaking colloquial word(considered grossly offensive in the mouths of whites, but used humorously or ironically by blacks themselves) nigga, nigga goes back to Negro.

Russia and CIS

The situation in Russia is noticeably different from that described above, since people Negroid race in Russia and the USSR have always been (and to a large extent remain) exotic, and even arrival in the country in the second half of the 20th century significant amount African students and the appearance of mulatto children among some of them did not change the situation much. In Russian, the word “negro” was not stylistically negative; this situation continues to this day. В то же время пришедшее из США слово «ниггер» (англ. nigger) is used in its original meaning - as an offensive name for a black person. By analogy with the politically correct “African Americans,” the neologism “Afro-Russians” appeared in the media. Anthropological term Negritos In colloquial, it is used as a playful or dismissive, and the word "black -haired" is as offensive.

Cultural and linguistic nuances

USA

In the United States, terms for the dark-skinned population have evolved as follows: Negro, Darkie, Colored, Black, Afro American, African-American. A characteristic feature of US terminology is the gradual disappearance of terms borrowed from Spanish to designate people of mixed origin (mulattos, quadroons, etc.), used in the 19th century. The word "negro" can be used historically and is still used in a number of organization names (United Negro College Fund). Words " nigga», « nigga» and others continue to be used within the African-American environment. White Americans, especially in the south of the country, also widely use these expressions in everyday life; however, such treatment is now generally perceived as offensive by the black population. For example, the detective novel by the English writer Agatha Christie “Ten Little Indians” (eng. Ten Little Niggers), written in 1939, was retitled Ten Little Indians due to lack of political correctness. Ten Little Indians), then, when even this name ceased to satisfy, in “Ten Little Soldiers” (eng. Ten Little Soldiers). Now the book is being published under the title “And Then There Were None” (eng. And Then There Were None).

Latin America

In Russian-language texts on anthropology, racial studies, in texts by specialists in Latin America And especially in the texts about the history of slavery, the word "Negro" has always been neutral. IN Spanish the word “negro” is also used in the meaning of “friend”, etc. (Argentina, Chile, Uruguay), although in the Dominican Republic, where a significant part of the population is of African origin, the word negro has a negative connotation due to the former occupation of this country by black troops from Haiti . Therefore, in Spanish the word “prieto” is used, etc.

Brazil

In Brazilian Portuguese, the concept of port is used. preto"pretu" and port. negro"Negro." Until recently, the more common word "preto" (black) was used everywhere, including in the country's most recent census.

Romance-speaking countries of the Mediterranean: “Negro-Africans”

In the Romance-speaking countries of the Mediterranean basin, which historically have close contacts with North African countries with Arab, Berber and black populations, official documents Currently, the term “Negro-Africans” (Spanish, Portuguese, Italian) is often used. negroafricano, also an adjective in Portuguese negro-africano), allowing you to select from mixed population African countries namely the black element.

In literary French noun and adjective are also commonly used negro-africain with a neutral connotation, while nègre connotations are ambiguous, depending on the context: from neutral to a shade of pride within the framework of negritude or belonging to a black French-speaking culture.

figurative meanings

Likewise, scientists who publish under false names are sometimes called “scientific blacks.”

In Russian there is an expression “to work like a Negro” meaning “to work a lot and hard.”

Negroes include people who perform any kind of work with extreme diligence, even to the point of harming their own health.

"Negroes" (short for "non-citizen") are sometimes called residents of Latvia and (less commonly) Estonia who have non-citizen status. (See stateless people)

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White Americans move to reservations

Indulging in my morning coffee and thinking about the imperfections of life, I leafed through the latest issue of Time magazine. And I came across an entertaining article by African-American writer Rich BENJAMIN, who, based on the results of a two-year investigation, wrote the book “In Search of White Utopia: An Incredible Journey into the Heart of White America.” In it, this same Benjamin told simply an extraordinary thing. It turns out that in the United States, more and more wealthy white people are leaving big cities and establish purely white settlements - enclaves. These are not isolated examples, but almost a mass phenomenon. To the writer’s question, why are you doing all this, they answered him softly but intelligibly: “We are not racists.” We don't consider ourselves better than you, we just want to be separate from you.
- It's just terrible! - black Benjamin is surprised. In short, something unprecedented is happening in the promised land, American...

So what is it? The end of the American Dream, the famous melting pot of all nations and races? The end of peace, friendship, chewing gum in America? Yes, sure. The melting pot is long gone! In all major cities USA is special areas where he lives exclusively black population. With their own ideas about morality, with their black police officers, restaurants, cinemas where they show special African-American films. IN Lately this is considered the norm.
African Americans make up 12.4 percent of US citizens, 14.8 percent are Hispanic. According to the Census Bureau, by 2042 people of color will make up the majority of Americans. These are only those legally living in the States. In reality, there are already more people of color than white people.
And so, if white Americans wanted to live separately, Mr. Benjamin immediately panicked.

Dumb

The Americans are building a barrier wall on the border with Mexico, think about it, eight meters high! You can go crazy. And still the number of illegal immigrants is not decreasing. Twig and twig... Entire cities already speak only their native Spanish. They don’t want to learn English at all. But this is nonsense, the main thing is that the majority categorically do not want to integrate into American culture. And they bring to America all the filthiest things they have. Drugs, crime, illiteracy...
I'm not anti-American at all. But I'm offended that in the country of my loved ones Mark Twain, Jack London, Steinbeck And Hemingway According to a 2004 survey, only half of Americans have read at least one book. Illiteracy in the United States has reached 20 percent and continues to rise. 30 percent of Americans believe that the US population is between one and two billion people. National Geographic magazine found that more than three-quarters of those surveyed could not find Japan on a map. 20 percent of Americans believe that the Sun revolves around the Earth. 17 percent of respondents rightly believe that the Earth revolves around the Sun, but are convinced that full turn Our planet's orbit around the Sun takes a day, not a year. One in five US adults cannot name any European country. Among Americans aged 18 to 24, one in seven cannot find their own country on a map, and one in four confuses the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
What does this have to do with the black and Hispanic population of America? Yes at that! Because it's mostly about them! If this continues, and it definitely will, then the only thing left in US history will be rap and basketball. Plus, of course, the vegetable garden planted by the first lady on the White House lawn.

Lazy

Somehow I dug up statistics on benefits for black families in Chicago. Poverty benefits, not unemployment, - $658 - 822 per month. Food stamp benefits, food stamps, - $140 - 288. Single mother supplements - $145 - 265. Additional payment for a child under 18 years of age - $670 - 980. Food stamp benefits for a child - $220 - 295. Payment assistance utilities- 96 - 100 percent. Medical insurance "MedicAid" - 85 - 100 percent.
The average family is a single mother with three children. Even if we count the minimum, she receives $2,813 per month without food stamps. Cool, yeah?! But this is all on condition that she is a black woman born in the USA. Americans of other skin colors have lower prices. Of course, I partially understand the government. It’s better that the blacks don’t work and play basketball, otherwise, if you trust them with an important matter, they’ll do something like this - mom, don’t worry. But African Americans are not eager to work.

Lustful

According to a report from the US Department of Justice, last year the country has registered more than 37 thousand cases proven in court in which a white woman was a victim sexual violence by a black man. During the same period, there were less than 10 thousand such facts associated with white men and black women.
I read a funny incident about how several years ago the US public became concerned about a case of a sergeant forcing a female recruit into cohabitation. Feminist organizations began to collect information about similar cases. They had raised quite a lot, were preparing to submit them to some hearings, and were already anticipating a resounding victory over “sexism” on a nationwide scale. But then it turned out that all the women forced into cohabitation were white, and the sergeants were black. Well, since even though a woman is taller than a man, a black man is “more important” than a woman and racism is worse than sexism, I had to quickly shut up.

Insolent

Why does all this American bullshit bother me? Who knows, I'm just thinking. I saw the same thing in Paris. I was walking one evening to lyrical mood and took a wrong turn. Lo and behold, not a single white face glows in the dark, only the whites of the eyes, frankly speaking, sparkle disapprovingly and get closer and closer. Well, I blew... By the way, the secular columnist of Izvestia wrote very well about France Bozena Rynska. I quote the passage verbatim, preserving the author’s literary inflections:
“We ate bouillabaisse at the Miramar restaurant in the old port. Back we got on a monstrous train. In the second class carriage, where my mother sat on principle, the air conditioner did not work. The whole train was suffocating, the windows were tightly sealed. Like in a bathhouse - not figuratively, but literally. A real gas chamber. As a result, I dragged my mother to first grade. It was hell there too. The air conditioner, of course, worked. But disgusting Arab gopniks climbed into our carriage. Gopniks walked naked to the waist. The Gopniks smoked. The Gopniks blasted the music and sat with their asses on the arms of the seats of people who had specifically spent money on first class so that this kind of trash wouldn’t hang out there. Disgusting, vile lessons.
There were four of them. There are at least forty of us in the carriage. Everyone spent money on first class. Nobody except us tried to do anything. In the USSR, such hooliganism would have been taken out by the whole bus. Healthy men seemed to be traveling, and no one kicked their turnips.
Having become enraged by the unruly cattle, I went to look for at least someone from SNCF. There was not a single person on the entire train. You can't get to the driver. Mother, I say, you are a kung fu player. Can you get away with at least one?
- Well, in principle, if the client stands calmly and doesn’t twitch, then I can hit him.
Half an hour from home, the mother could not stand it, clenched her fists and almost rushed into battle. We shouted at the French that this was their country, and that they needed to protect themselves from the inhabitants of the former colonies, and that they themselves deserved Clichy, because they put cattle on their necks.
The naked Arabs, seeing the fists, became subdued. It felt like they were testing their patience on purpose. Like, they asked for a punch in the face. Passing by my mother’s chair, they said “sorry.” Before leaving the train, they announced to the carriage that they were getting off and the show was over.”

Do we need this?

Just don’t accuse me of Negro-Arab-Latin-all other nations phobias! I grew up in a Soviet school where internationalism was cultivated. And became a fan of Soviet film"Circus", where the famous artist Volodin rocks a black child in his arms and sings a song: “Bears and elephants are sleeping, uncles and aunts are sleeping...” Yes, yes!
It’s just that, looking at America, I think about the fate of Russia! I’m not against Tajiks, Uzbeks, Chinese, Kyrgyz... But the great one came to Moscow before Muslim Magomaev, director of "The Elusive Avengers" Edmond Keosayan, and many wonderful, smart people are still coming. Musicians, doctors, writers, who is against them! But along with them there are still tons of unknown people! And even they, individually, are nice guys, but when there are many of them, it’s just a separate life, believe me, alien to us.
I understand that there is no work in their homeland, and unlike Gorbachev, which collapsed great country, they can be understood. But don’t force their habits on me from the Karakum desert! Why not establish a visa regime, why not strengthen the border? Previously, they held the border even without the eight-meter American walls, but with a bobby on a leash it was okay.
I read a conversation with the head of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the Moscow Region Andrey Markov. He says what last year crime among migrants has increased by almost 40 percent. And he also says that he doesn’t know how unregistered foreigners get into our country; they seem to dissolve after crossing the border.
They don't disappear anywhere. They live... And here are the numbers: foreign citizens In the first half of 2009, 6,392 crimes were committed in the Moscow region. Compared to the same period last year, there was an increase of 39.6 percent. In Moscow, from a third to half of the crimes are on their own conscience.
Why do residents of villages or Chinese outbacks need Moscow? If they want to work, please do so. Strictly on visas and strictly on those specialties that the country needs. And they pay taxes, otherwise, according to the most conservative estimates, about $15 billion floats uncontrollably to the former fraternal republics.
Why did I talk about the Americans in such detail? I don’t want to run away from my native place to the pampas! This is a journalist-writer Rich Benjamin called white enclaves utopias - like fairy tales white man. I don't want such fairy tales! And I don’t want them to become reality! And everything goes towards this.
And as a result, the example of Kosovo is before our eyes. At first, the Albanians slowly entered, then they incredibly began to grow demographically, then they became the majority, and then bam, and the cradle of Serbian civilization was no longer Serbia at all, but another state. This will happen to the USA, and maybe to us too.

Hello dear lovers interesting facts. Today we will look in detail at why blacks have a large reproductive organ. This question is often discussed on various Internet resources, dedicated to topics and medicine. Indeed, why can representatives of the Negroid race boast more impressive “merits” than their white counterparts?

Where do legs grow from?

The topic of penis size causes a lot of controversy. The interested community is divided into two parts. Some gentlemen argue that stories about the inherent “gigantism” of Africans are nothing more than myths. The question is very intriguing. So a lot of gossip and fiction appear, each more fantastic than the other.

Lovers films for adults Having compared the parameters of white and black actors, they tend to the opposite opinion. Europeans are not at all consoled by their relatively modest size, but rather the opposite. Many Europeans were literally devastated by the fact that blacks had more than whites. The same one who was in Asian countries and could contemplate local men “in all their glory,” claims that white guys have absolutely nothing to be sad about.

The excitement around penis size did not arise since the heyday of the porn industry, which provided viewers with different countries opportunity to compare. It all started much earlier and for a different reason.

White slavery

Jealous and envious comparison of genitals arose during the era of colonization and Christianization of Africa. Arriving at the new shores, the white hidalgos of the Old World were amazed at the picture that opened up. It turned out that the natives living in the thick of the mainland had penises of very respectable size.

Historians who study the southern United States before the Civil War believe that the physical characteristics of black slaves - who were exported from Africa - inspired genuine horror in their masters. This partly explains the cruelty of many slave owners. It is much easier to spread rot on a giant slave than to constantly wait for his own wife to cheat on him (which happened not so rarely).

White conquerors of new continents fell into slavery of their own stereotypes and the inexorable laws of nature. A hardy black man with great “dignity” is a strong contender in the struggle for the attention of southern women who are not spoiled by sexual diversity. Puritan morals reigned in Europe at that time, and aristocratic girls were brought up very strictly.

With a ruler around the world

One can argue endlessly about whether Africans have particularly large penises or not. For the sake of truth, it is worth getting acquainted with statistical data. The issue of penis size among representatives different nations many researchers have studied.

In 2005, the famous Institute of Men's Health (Tomsk) published the results of an unusual survey. About 6 thousand men took part in it different nationalities. The study was conducted in countries that were formerly part of the USSR.

Doctors have found that those with the largest reproductive organs live in the south of the CIS, in Georgia. Average length member here is 17.6 cm. In second place are the Russians and Ukrainians with an indicator of 16.2 cm. The Baltics are quite a bit behind them (16 cm).

Globally, the study was carried out by different scientists. The data they obtained was collected and systematized by Sujata Gundersen, a researcher of Syrian origin. The lady presented the results of this work in the form of a unique map of penis sizes, which was posted on the Target Map platform.

Inexorable statistics

The victory in this secret international competition was won exclusively by naturally gifted gentlemen Democratic Republic Congo. The average length of an erect penis here is 17.9 cm. At the same time, owners of 20- tiscentimeter organs are quite common.

The Gabonians and Guineans are inferior to them by only 0.1-0.2 cm. In general, nature gave the largest reproductive organs to dark-skinned men Central America, Brazil and Africa (17.9-16.1 cm). In second place are Canadians, Argentines, Arabs and, oddly enough, residents of cold Greenland (14.8 cm).

The average parameter of 13.4 cm was recorded in the USA, Russia and Australia. The Indians, Chinese and Indonesian aborigines (10-11 cm) were not at all lucky. So the rumors about the royal size of the reproductive organs of black men are not fiction at all.

Why are blacks' penises larger?

Scientists believe that the reason for the rapid growth of some parts of the body of Africans or African Americans lies in a combination of factors. It is influenced by genetics, diet, cultural characteristics and - to a lesser extent - climate.

Checking the Gundersen map, it is easy to see that men with big penises live closer to the equator. It's warmer here and the temperament is local residents"more picky." The heat promotes the boiling of blood in the veins and the growth of everything that can grow.

On the other hand, why are Indians and Indonesians - also southerners - so modestly gifted? After all, they live in the same latitudes as “large-sized” Africans. The conclusion suggests itself: climate is not a decisive factor when it comes to the penis. Even in ice-bound Guys in Greenland have penises that are 3-4 cm longer than those in China, Thailand and India.

Lots of meat - lots of sex

This is precisely the relationship between the described male parameters and diet. This explains the difference between men from Africa and India. Equatorial pagan tribes lived by hunting for thousands of years. You won't find farmers in the wilds of Africa.

The population here is raised on the meat of freshly killed game, which, due to the favorable climate, is always abundant. High-quality animal protein is an excellent building material for organs and tissues. So why shouldn’t men here be gifted in the physical sense?

In India and China it is a completely different story. In this part globe Such world religions as Buddhism and Hinduism were born. While Africans hunted macaques, wild pigs and their neighbors, Indians and Tibetans preached love for all living beings inhabiting the planet.

Tibet is the cradle of humanism, the search for spiritual truth and, of course, vegetarianism. Plant foods perfectly cleanse the body, promote spiritual enlightenment and tranquility, but certainly do not give physical strength.

The population of these countries switched en masse to a vegetarian diet more than a thousand years ago. During this time, not only men's penises greatly decreased in size, but the people themselves became stunted. It is not for nothing that the Chinese, Japanese and their southern neighbors are considered the smallest inhabitants of the planet.

Hello Darwin!

The decisive word in this matter still remains with genetics. If the father has a “king size”, then the son will probably not blush for his “well done” in the bedroom. But why are king sizes found among people from Africa? This is where local cultural traditions played a role.

Black ladies, unburdened by puritanical morality, could always choose the strongest sexual partners. For this, they had all the trump cards in their hands: naked male bodies before their eyes, the cult of fertility, free sexual relations.

From time immemorial, African natives have professed the cult of the body. They emphasize their virtues with tattoos, paintings, jewelry, and scars. Only in an environment of such sexual emancipation could a device called a “koteka” (a special sheath for the penis) appear. A true symbol of male power!

Under such conditions, it is unlikely that guys with tiny penises could pass on their genes to their descendants. Women simply did not choose them. So it turned out that from generation to generation in the African forests hardy men with large reproductive organs bred. Law of natural selection.

I hope now you roughly understand why blacks have such a large reproductive organ, so we don’t think that anyone needs to have a complex about this. Size doesn't really matter, at least in most cases.

The editors of Webfacts magazines do not use the word "Negro" as a racist statement. We apologize if this word offended anyone.

The coming half century will be marked by Asia becoming the next economic and cultural center peace. Africa will also have time to have its say, but not so much in cultural terms as in population: three countries on this continent will be among the ten most populous by 2050.

The largest of them, Nigeria, will be just a million people behind the United States, while Congo and Ethiopia will displace Russia and Mexico from 9th and 10th places on the list. In total, almost 2.5 billion will live on Earth more people than in 2015. Analysts from the American Population Information Bureau (PRB) came to these conclusions.

The key to the puzzle is children. While developed countries are struggling with an aging population, Africa is experiencing a baby boom. The leaders are Niger, South Sudan, Congo, Somalia and Chad. The fact that in such countries the mortality rate is falling due to the development of healthcare also contributes to this, noted PRB Vice President Peter Goldstein. Analysts expect that in 35 years, children born today will be healthier and better off.

Castling also occurred in the first positions of the rating. If today China holds the palm, then by 2050 it will go to India. “Over the last few decades, the Chinese have focused on reducing the birth rate, but in India the increase is stable and not limited by the letter of the law,” Goldstein explains.

Similar figures were previously announced by the UN. They believe that by 2050 the world's population will increase to 9.7 billion people. Wait reverse movement is possible only if the birth rate falls in sub-Saharan Africa.

The fair sex remains a key barometer of family well-being, so it is extremely important to respect and expand women's rights, PRB researchers write. "We've seen tremendous progress, but obstacles remain in areas that are critical for women. They need guarantees or, you could say, some kind of reward expressed in terms of equality with men," said Jeff Jordan, chief executive officer of the bureau.

Infographics:

But this does not mean that the more rights women have, the more they will give birth. Less developed countries today account for the lion's share of the world's population - more than 6 billion, while developed countries account for only 1.254 billion. In more than 40 countries, the vast majority of which are in Africa, the population will double in 35 years, and in 34 countries, on the contrary, it will decrease. For example, there will be 30 million fewer Japanese people, and Latvia will lose almost a third of its population.

Plays an important role in this average duration women's lives. PRB estimates that today they live 73 years, while men live 69 years. The richer the country and the higher the level of medicine, the higher these indicators. In more developed countries, women live on average 82 years, and in South Africa's Lesotho - 46 years.

In African countries, there are not only problems with medical care, but also with employment. There, only 30 percent of women do not work in the fields, while in Europe, the USA and Canada - almost half. Moldova has the highest level of employment in non-agricultural areas - 55 percent.

What about us?

Today there are 144.3 million people living in Russia, but in 15 years its population will decrease by four million, and by 2050 by another six, to 134.2 million people.

While the number of children under 16 years of age in the country is 16 percent, those over 65 are 13 percent. These figures, for example, in Nigeria are completely different: 43 percent of children versus three percent of older people. But there is a much larger difference in West African Niger: 52 percent versus four, PRB calculated.

Are these conclusions so critical for Russia? Director of the Institute of Demography, National Research University graduate School economy." Anatoly Vishnevsky believes that the bureau did not discover America: a potential trend towards an excess of mortality over the birth rate can be traced, but there is an explanation for this. "We will leave the top 10, that’s for sure, but not because everything is supposedly bad with us, but because “that other countries are growing faster,” he reasoned. “There will be few women of fertile age in Russia in the coming years, since the birth rate was low in the 1990s.”

One resource that helps maintain growth is migration. But we cannot greet all foreigners with bread and salt, since we need to integrate newcomers into the legal and social environment without conflict. When will there be 80 percent Asians and Africans on Earth? National composition of all countries, including Russia, will be greatly diluted, concludes Anatoly Vishnevsky.

An example is France, where more than 64 million people live. About five million are foreigners, half of whom are from Africa. The rest are residents of other European countries and Asians.

Infographics: RG / Maria Pakhmutova / Ekaterina Dobrynina / Alexandra Vozdvizhenskaya