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Originally Posted by RainMan (Post 404258)

It isn't a question of bullshit, but misreading my statement. I wasn't being literal.

As for what I was loosely referring to, I think I am stuck back in 04-05 and was loosely speaking rather loosely (and possibly through my hat since NO, I have not taken a class in Economy) based upon such years in which employment rates were not very high.

Perhaps if you say what you mean, it would save you all the delicate backpeddling.

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Originally Posted by RainMan

Besides this, and again, I don't think its too much to ask to consider alternatives for providing worldly assistance than offering up only economical support. As I've mentioned that doesn't do a thing for undeveloped countries, where financial support is oftentimes most needed.

So what in your view exactly qualifies as aid since economic support doesn't count? Are you talking specifically with regards to medical assistance? The sharing and donation of technology?

I think it's a difficult task to render true aid to any underdeveloped country. What we determine to be valuable in terms of rendering aid may be devastatingly destructive to a culture that we may not have taken the time to fully understand. When a state achieves the economic power, military force, and global influence on a level of the US, China, and the former Soviet Union, ethnocentrism is basically assumed. Countries like these look at undeveloped states as primitive in comparison crippled by a technological and industrial gap. For powerful states -who tend to be heavy handed- to bestow "aid" unavoidably results in an imposition of foreign unwanted values upon the undeveloped state. Even if they mean well, the difference in values is in contrast enough to create discord on some level.

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Perhaps if you say what you mean, it would save you all the delicate backpeddling.

Thanks for the advice.

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So what in your view exactly qualifies as aid since economic support doesn't count?

Considering alternatives to economic assistance doesn't necessarily require exclusion.
Don't get me wrong, I believe that economy is a valuable source for increasing wellbeing, it just doesn't serve everyone equally.

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Are you talking specifically with regards to medical assistance? The sharing and donation of technology?

Well, yes. I suppose that is what I am saying.

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I think it's a difficult task to render true aid to any underdeveloped country. What we determine to be valuable in terms of rendering aid may be devastatingly destructive to a culture that we may not have taken the time to fully understand.

Providing doctors and proper equipment
to properly diagnose and treat illness doesn't sound too complicated. In this case, why would a knowledge of culture be prudent or even necessary? We all are humans, we all have bodies and we all have illness. Science and technology have allowed more developed countries to fully realize this. It is therefore their unassumed duty to make good on that understanding for the betterment of all, not only the financially viable.

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For powerful states -who tend to be heavy handed- to bestow "aid" unavoidably results in an imposition of foreign unwanted values upon the undeveloped state. Even if they mean well, the difference in values is in contrast enough to create discord on some level.

What kind of "unwanted values" are you referring to. At any rate, that isn't a good excuse for being hands off on the matter. A doctor is not going to apply treatment to the needy under the condition that the specific culture in question adapts to his cultural perspectives. This isn't Christianity we are talking about. Doctors and aid workers are healers and helpers, not politicians.