When watching the Black Panther, I am curious about the country Wakanda. It is a very mysterious country because of its settings. Wakanda is so advance just because they discovered some materials, vibranium, from a meteorite. One gram of vibranium is sold for 10,000 dollars. It is extremely expensive. And the meteorite brought them 10,000,000 tons of vibranium. You can imagine how wealthy they are. In the comic, the setting was that T’Challa traded some vibranium with other countries for money and used the money to study abroad. But in the movie, Wakanda is already wealthy and advanced before T’Challa became the king.
Also, for a country like Wakanda, the weapons they used in the movie seem to be significantly behind. In the research that I have done, it is said that Wakanda is a country that loves pursuing peace and love. Therefore, they did not put much attention into making advanced weapons. However, when fighting with the aliens, there are some high technology planes and flying vehicles. Compared to the cold vehicles, people on the ground have, the lethality is very different. Some people think there are mainly two reasons that made Wakanda an advanced country but stays low in the middle of nowhere. One is that they choose to stick to their own culture. They think the metal was given to them by their god. And they need to follow their rules instead of changing Wakanda into a different country just to match up the wealth and technologies this country owns. Secondly, some political reasons might be involved. Wakanda is divided by tribes. Some of them are more conservative, while others are freer. But the one thing they have in common is that they do not care about how advanced the technologies other countries are. They stay low in order to avoid wars and to develop their own cultures.
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https://www.shangc.net/news/2018/0311/05234934.html
https://www.sohu.com/a/257305711_681757
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