Message-ID: <32B10174.33ED@uniontel.net> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 23:10:44 -0800 From: David Johnson <mailto:pinefarm@UNIONTEL.NET> Subject: Colonialism To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
"There has never, in history, been a former colony which has
risen from the third world to take its place among the developed nations
in the first world".
A very carefully worded statement. Do you agree? Why do you think
this is? Has it just been too recent or is there something about the
colonial experience which so shatters a nation that it can't recover?
Note that by stating "risen from the third world" excludes the US
and Australia, Canada etc. You can maybe argue about Singapore but that
is really a nation state. The point of the exercise is not to find
possible exceptions but to ponder the reasons, if any, for the vast
majority. Dave Johnson