Re: 04/2011 - Ex Pats That Fall
Originally Posted by
Jimmydr
Four Worlds
After World War II the world split into two large geopolitical blocs and spheres of influence with contrary views on government and the politically correct society:
1 - The bloc of democratic-industrial countries within the American influence sphere, the "First World".
2 - The Eastern bloc of the communist-socialist states, the "Second World".
3 - The remaining three-quarters of the world's population, states not aligned with either bloc were regarded as the "Third World."
4 - The term "Fourth World", coined in the early 1970s by Shuswap Chief George Manuel, refers to widely unknown nations (cultural entities) of indigenous peoples, "First Nations" living within or across national state boundaries.
It bears mention that this dynamic is constantly shifting and the definition of "1-2-3-4-5 worlds" is fluid with the exception of the "Old" and the "New", after all, we're looking at this from a uniquely Western perspective. Go to North Africa or China or India and tell People about how the "Old World" is Western Europe and they will roll on the floor with laughter. When you look at this Human race from a global perspective and see the movements of power and wealth on a timeline that stretches to cover the past 6,000 years of recorded history it is clear that there were concurrent developments of powerful civilizations long before Europe joined the party and it wasn't until WWII that the USA rose to the head of the class, mostly because U.S. financiers backed both sides in the WW's and made a ton of cash off of the ton of misery which resulted. That's the one thing that you can count on in this world, anywhere People are suffering there is loads of profit to be had. As an example, how many contractors and NGO's made a pile off the earthquake in Haiti in 2010? After all that money was spent how much better off is Haiti now than in 2010, 6 years earlier? How many Americans are aware that 75% of the weapons used by (captured from) ISIS are made in the USA? Death is one manufactured commodity that will never be "off-shored" as nobody makes the tools of death as well as we do. This is how most of the world sees us in our post WWII arrogance
Each corner of the world is filled with People who see the world from their own historical perspective and it's imperative that we acknowledge and understand those perspectives if we hope to live among them successfully.
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- Benjamin Franklin
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