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The reason I think that African origin stories are overlooked is because colonizers made it seem like Africa didn't have any culture to begin with.

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The impact on society today make people think that people who come from Africa are uncultured and uncivilized because people don't know they had any history.

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The reason I think African origin stories are overlooked is because colonizers made it seem like africa didn't have no religion or they were just following people to make themselves better.

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The impact on society today is that people overlook Africa and people make assumptions that Africa is poor and has nobody that is of culture.

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They've been claimed by Europeans or completely destroyed.

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I think that African culture is overlooked so much because when Africa was colonized, the colonizers made it seem like all the beautiful creations are made by them

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I think that African origin stories are overlooked due to the prejudice that depicts Africans civilizations as people bunched into tribes and not strong and wealthy empires such as Mansa Musa's.

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I think its overlooked because of how it is today and how it is viewed. People look at it as a place that was colonized and took over upon times but in all actuaity they built Africa in their own way as well

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Society is now learning about true African History. Society has only learned the whitewashed side of history and not the actual thing.

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I think the African origin stories are overlooked because its kinda a sterotype that africa is like this poor country with no water and low food so i think everyone assumed their stories to be sort of depressing and no one ever actually look the time to find the truth

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It probably makes some people think that "What else have historians gotten wrong, it shows that we cant rely on people to tell us what happened.

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I think that the African origin stories are overlooked because of how stable the civilizations were and they have a different culture.

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i think African origin stories are overlooked because of their skin color. white people must have done something with their power to keep it in the low. but know its 2021 :)

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I think that African stories are overlooked because many countries stole there history also having to practice there religion.

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I think that African origins are overlooked because people thought that they were not able to do anything significant because they did't write down their own history.

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African origin stories are probably mainly overlooked because people see Africa as a country with poverty and uncivilized people incapable of doing basic thigs.

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The reason why i think African origin stories were overlooked was because so the Africans didn't look like they were more advanced, more powerful and had more culture then the explorer.

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i think African origin stories are overlooked because along with the colonizers hiding their origin story they also are not a country with conflict. There are no popular wars Africa has had with the U.S so people in america overlook what they actually are and just see them as a poor country.

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i think African origin stories are over looked because africa was given the stereotype that its was always poor and that there really was no history

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I think African orgin stories are often overlooked because it is hard for people with so much predjudice to think Africa was a succesful contienent, with many vibrant and cultrual countries.

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It has made other country believe that Africans haven't had any civilized cities and are all of poor background. This causes other to look down on them and see them as inferior when in reality Africans have had their strong empires and civilizations.

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I believe African origin stories are overlooked because since colonizers only gave us enough facts to believe that African culture never had an origin story to begin with.

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The fact that people see Africans as poor and uncivilized can easily tie into the sensitive topic of racism.

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the impact it has on society today is no one really knows the origin stories and they arent edcauted on everything that has really happened in african history

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The reason racists want to erase African history is to make it seem like black people come from nothing, and that slavery is our only history.

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I think African origin stories were overlooked at because their people were enslaved in many places, Europeans thought africans were not sophisticated enough to hold a place in history.

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I think African origin stories are overlooked because there were looked as uncivilized or uneducated people so people would disregard their achievements.

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I think African origin stories are overlooked because most people think that Africans are poor and might have no education so they have no interest in them.

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The impact i think it has is people looking at other places that might've had a similar history as Africa. This might inspire them to just like Gus talk about the overlooked history about them too

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I think this impacts society today by informing people what they didn't know and change how people view things.

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The impact this has on society is people might not view Africa the same way they view Asia or Europe because due to their history being suppressed we don't see them as advanced.

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This has an impact on society today because since less people believe that Africa did have an origin story there's not gonna be a lot of people trying to discover more about the whole origin story.

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I think that the impact that it has on society is that Africans might not get all of the opportunities we get, also being poor and there being racism in society affects everything.

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It probably makes some people think ask what else have historians gotten wrong. It also shows in order to learn the right history of we need to go to people who will tell the real story and not just the colonizers or winners. The impact it has on society is the fact that when people think of africa they think of poor prople and no water.

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the impact that it has on society is that many people dont know the true facts about africa what happened and how no one see the pretty culture that africa has.

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Since African history is overlooked, that gives the perception that black people aren't important.

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we are see whole new side of history for us to learn about

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The impact this has on society is that many people don't know about african history and the culture because of the lack of information that was saved/ recorded.

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Because colonizers made it seem like Africa didn't have any culture to begin with, I believe African origin stories are overlooked.

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People's perceptions of Africans as poor and uncivilized can easily lead to the touchy subject of racism.

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People's perceptions of Africans as poor and uncivilized can easily lead to the touchy subject of racism.

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Brandon C

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the corruption of history is very common with white washed christopher colombus stories being told in schools and African stories being ignored