Message-ID: <s381b20d.059@crs.loc.gov> Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 14:08:59 -0500 From: Jonathan Sanford <mailto:JSANFORD@CRS.LOC.GOV> Subject: Re: Boring -Reply To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
Peter Wyona's comment about the commercial orientation of much European contacts with developing countries is interesting. I wonder why this conversation needs to be limited to criticism of the United States. Why not open it up to comments about all relations between developed and developing countries. It's interesting that (as reported) Australian students are taught that the CIA and US Defense Department sponsor coups and instability worldwide. This lack of fairness and perspective is probably a consequence of the Australians hanging with their heads down (southern hemisphere joke) all the time. I guess it makes them prone to believe stereotypes and the plot lines in movies.Jon Sanford