Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.20000101223527.00872860@fox.nstn.ca> Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 22:35:27 +0300 From: Rose Mulvale <mailto:rmulvale@FOX.NSTN.CA> Subject: one-way traffic? To: mailto:DEVEL-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Please forgive if this subject has been thrashed to chaff here already, but I'm new and a couple of questions have just reared their curiously convoluted heads in my mind and require some air:Devel-l is devoted to the transfer of technology from (presumably) technologically "developed" countries/minds/whatever to those who should be avid for same (even if they might give little evidence of such hunger).
Question 1: Who benefits? (In metaphor: Who reaps the profits from the introduction of Golden Arches into a rice/bean/poultry-based food economy which has served its population well for several millenia?)
Question 2: What do these "under-developed" (read "mis-understood"?) cultures have to offer us in return for our overwhelming generosity? The generally accepted answer to this question is "Well, access to and eventual ownership of their natural resources, of course." Is there another answer? Would we get another answer if we re-phrased the question?