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Originally Posted by MetaMan
I do not believe that these people want change. thus why it has been like that for thousands of years. not everyone on the planet has to buy into the western mentality to be excepted.
in their eyes who is to say they feel repressed? some people can look at the western way of living and call us repressed. how often to people in the west stop and smell the roses anymore? it is just go go go alot of people forget to enjoy their lives.
if they want to sit in a mud hut and pray everyday that is their choice.
i am tired of the way the western world tries to shove our way of living down everyone's throat.
the only way for countries to make true change it when the citizens rise up and do it themselves. whenever their is a foreign entity involved the population is always bound to question the motives. which in reality they always should.
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I mostly agree with you, but when you can't leave your hut by yourself, you are not allowed to be educated, you have to wear a veil to cover your face at all times, etc... it seems, at least to me, that it would be pretty difficult to "smell the roses".
But I DO agree with you in the majority of cases where the "western" way of life supersedes the culture of another place. Good point.