Ricardo, you keep skating close to the edge. You say that you do not intend
to provoke, but you seem to poke and poke -- maybe just to get a reaction. We
do not need that here.
Ricardo Duchesne wrote:
> Now you are getting high on pity which is another trait of
> third worldists who think that suffering is the defining
> characteristic of the Third World and who, with a sense of "survivors
> guilt", draw the inaccurate conclusion that the West is solely (or at
> least primarily) responsible for the poverty of the TW. Yet when
> TW people start building industries, attending university or
> consuming Western movies, third wordists view it as
> a sign that these countries are being corrupted by Western influence
> - which brings us back to that other trait, getting high on paradise;
> yes, Jameson really has the best of both worlds: the joys of a high
> paying academic salary combined with the innocence and purity
> of the TW!
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
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