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From: martillo@mit-athena.ARPA (Joaquim Martillo)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: 3rd world savages
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Date: Tue, 20-Nov-84 02:22:29 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 20 02:22:29 1984
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	It is a similar case now in many 3rd world countries. You must keep in
	mind that Independent India is less than 40 years old, and as such
	is experiencing growing pains and the turmoil that go with it. As
	things get consolidated and the people become more mature, things will
	stabilize ...

That is, savagery in India should be excused because after  all  Indians
are  primitive savages who have only had a nation for 40 years.  Well, I
don't buy it.  Indian civilization is thousands of years old and demands
much  better  behavior  of Indians than they have shown.  To expect less
from Indians is condescending.

					Americans should be more understanding
	and give the 3rd world countries a chance to grow up and mature. I am
	sure after 200 years of democracy, India will become a far better
	society than it is now, just as did America.

Truly,  less  than  50  years ago, a large part of the Western World was
acting  like  animalistic  barbarians.   Yet  nowadays  in  first  world
countries such savagery is practically unknown, and in the few instances
where  such  barbarism  has  appeared  large  sections  of  first  world
populations  have  striven  to  stamp  it out.  No similar opposition or
remorse for 3rd world savagery appears in 3rd world nations.

There is no excuse for such absence.  The West  only  has  technological
competence  over the Eastern cultures which are generally older and more
sophisticated in many  respects.   Rationalizations  and  apologies  for
third world behavior is insipid and insulting to 3rd worlders.