Message-ID: <s2b190ac.075@crs.loc.gov> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 17:14:42 -0500 From: Jonathan Sanford <mailto:JSANFORD@CRS.LOC.GOV> Subject: Re: Colonialism -Reply To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
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".
What does it mean for a country to "take its place among the developed nations"? Presumably membership in the OECD is one such place. If memory serves, Greece (former colony of the Ottoman Empire) is a member and Korea (former Japanese) and Mexico (former ???) are in the process of joining. Do the former possessions of the Austro-Hungarian empire count? Eastern Europe and the Balkans were the quintessential developing countries at one time. In the 19th century, we Westerners (I'm from California) complained that our states were economic colonies of the eastern seaboard. I guess maybe we're first world now. On the other hand, I sometimes think some of the cities on the eastern seaboard seem to have regressed into the Third World.
Jon Sanford