Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.961213125511.12134A-100000@is6.NYU.EDU> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 12:57:21 -0500 From: Leonard G Valenzuela <mailto:lgv200@IS6.NYU.EDU> Subject: Re: Colonialism To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
Is that true? Korea and Taiwan were essentially colonies of Japan in the first part of this century. The nature of their colonial process, however, was one of industrialization rather than of simple removal of primary materials. Couldn't you say in some way that they "benefited" from their colonial experience?Len Valenzuela NYU
On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, David Johnson wrote:
> "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
>