Loretta "lil' bit" Taylor
Amelia Mueller
_The Darker Nations_ (pp. 63-119) by: Vijay Prishad
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*Imperialisms Effect on Third World culture/Culture*
/"The darker world contributed greatly to the development of Europe, and
based on this evidence, it is clear that the invisible hand is white"
pg. 68/
* _North South Gap:_ The power differential (economic, cultural)
created by colonialism, globalization, and capitalism between
states in the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
* _Traditionalism_
o Imperialist views:__
+ The 3^rd world wills themselves into poverty because
they don't have the culture to support capitalism.
(Weber)__
+ The 3^rd world needs to change their culture in order
to be economically prosperous. __
+ However, the Imperialist nations willed the 3^rd world
into poverty.__
* _Unilineal Evolution and "Preach the Unreached"_
o "Economists in the United States and Europe...saw the
development economists and the leaders of the Third World as
'irresponsible wild men, radical utopians who could at most
be entrusted with minor extensions" pg. 64. __
* _International Nationalism_ the 3^rd world's nationalism:__
o "An overarching unity (a national identity) would supersede
(but not subvert) the other social identities.
Identification with the n national project could be more
important than a sedimented identity than one inherited.
There was an unrecognized problem within this otherwise
valuable liberal project, it has a majoritarian cast. *It is
easy for the demographic majority in a society to ask for
the suspension of identity who's cultural features would
anyway seep into the culture of the nation"* pg. 86__
* _Questions:_
1. How is the 3^rd world concept of "international nationalism"
related to Macalester's concept of "global citizenship"?
2. In the "post-colonial" present, there has been a new development
in the creation of the 2^nd world (the third world lifted up by
the bootstraps and post-soviet reform). Where does this new
"world" fit into dichotomist theories based on the "juxtaposed but
not harmonized" 1^st and 3^rd world spaces?
3. How do we (as students of color or marginalized peoples or not)
fit into the imperialist framework? Do we have an obligation of
self-sacrifice to take accountability for the benefits we reap at
the cost of others?
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