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Essay Archive - Technological Development and the Third World
Technological Development and the Third World
TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE THIRD WORLD
I wonder if people in Third World countries know that they are considered
the "Third World?" Do they use that term in reference to themselves? Do they
have any perception of the comparison, judgment and bias that goes into that
statement? I'd like to think that they don't. In the film about the Ladack
people that we watched in class, it was mentioned that they didn't have a word
for poverty. No such word even existed in their language. But that was before.
It was before the invasion of other cultures, and it was before th....
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