What is the third world, and why are some countries developing while others claim to be developed?
The making and the unmaking of the third world.
The Truman discourse:
“Their economic life is primitive and stagent”
“Greater produktion is the key to prosperity and peace”
“Greater produktion comes by modern scientific and techical knowledge.”
UN discourse:
“impossible without painfull adjustments”
“bonds of cast, creed, and race have to burst”
“Very few communities are willing to pay the full price of of economic progress.”
Escobar dicourse:
“Development had achieved the status of a certainty in the social imaginary.
It seemed impossible to conseptualize social reality in other terms.”
The article shows how arrogance has made the westeren world make important decisions on behalf of others.
The Mogolian cases:
The mongolians do not have a tradition with working in groups but they accept the Danish advice about working in groups. This is because of the discourse that Danes/Western people know better.
They need to find thier own voice and value it.
The strict punishments at African shools are also a discourse. I myself have attended a shool in Zimbabwe were we were beaten by our teachers. Sometimes we had to work in the garden in the sun as detention. One must remember that the school I attended was build by the British.
The Etrean teacher is very good. He has a different motivation than the Indian teacher. He feels as being part of the local community.
The Indian teachers are payed the same amount of money as the local, but in Dollars.
The Indian teacher doesn’t care about the students and is a rasit. This is a common discourse in Africa, hence Idi Amins ultimatum to the indians in Uganda.
Equal rights for all, regardless race, sex, color or creed is the first step towards 1 world instead of 3.
