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Do indigenous peoples benefit from 'development'? | Stephen Corry

We have to think if the development brings no benefit to those who are largely self-sufficient - as most of the 150 million indigenous people in the world

What is the "development"? This can be done directly on people without food or water sewer, or urban (fecal contamination is the largest, easily avoidable, the assassin of man). But despite the millions of people still do not have these basic things, form only a small part of what is going to develop these days. The duplicity of politics and business ensures greater - weapons, for example -. It is shoehorned into the same category

What development for those who are largely self-sufficient, get your own food and build their houses where water is always clean - like many of the 150 million indigenous peoples of the world? Development had something useful for them, or has simply been for them?

is easy to see where it leads. Leaving aside the millions of people who have succumbed to the colonial invasion in some so-called developed countries of the world (Australia, Canada and U.S.) development has become the survivors most disenfranchised poor. Take any action that should read: high income, longevity, employment, health, low dependency, suicide, imprisonment and domestic violence, and you find that indigenous peoples in the U.S. . . U.S., Canada and Australia are by far the worst in each account - but nobody seems to pay attention to the lesson

What are the consequences of the dispossession of more in North America and Australia, almost everywhere on Earth. The settlers were determined to steal the tribal lands, and no questions about their own superiority. She embraced the political-economic models in which workers produce to distant markets, and had to pay for the privilege. The natives, without the use of money, paying taxes, contributing little to the market until it was forced, were "backwards". At most, should be integrated into the service of the settler society.

colonialism began to take their self-sufficiency in its own territory, and bring glory to productivity, as public servants, on the other person. It makes little sense retroactively apologize for this, because it is not limited to the past: most development plans imposed at the point of indigenous and tribal peoples today in exactly the same direction

Two of his main issues are housing and education. The traditional house has many advantages - including the fact that it is free - but the development of ordinances to be replaced by modern housing. West Papua, the tribe put their pigs in new homes and live in the former. Rwanda recently banned completely straw, everyone should use sheet metal, by law What about modern education? In Australia, Métis children were forced to distant boarding schools to "raise" their "Aboriginalness" and turn them into a lower class. Ice in Botswana sunny Siberia, residential schools must remain a central integrationist policies that destroy more awareness. There is no hidden conspiracy: it is designed to be opened to divert people on workers, the contempt of his own tribal heritage Many indigenous peoples have observed that even modern medical care they can get from richer governments not begin to fight against diseases of public policies themselves have been committed against them. It is not "backwardness" that makes many indigenous peoples reject development projects, it is rational anxiety about the future.


Therefore, it is possible to empower indigenous peoples of all the development that is truly beneficial? Yes, if we accept their right to refuse what we, with our "advanced" wisdom, can give, we must stop thinking of them children, when they make decisions that are not. Everyone wants control over their future, and not everyone wants the same things in life, but these are common places are rarely enforced.

development, at least for most indigenous peoples, is not really to get people out of poverty, it is to hide the takeover of their land. Deception works because the condemnation of "we know best" is more deeply rooted than it was even a generation ago, the levels of the Victorian era of narrow-mindedness are back. As a Bushman of Botswana said. "We first made destitute by the withdrawal of our land, our hunting and our way of life then say that we are nothing because we are poor."
In a 21st century water expensive food, housing, education, health and power, self-sufficiency has its appeal. You can not increase the GDP figures, but many indigenous peoples worldwide are living longer lives and healthier for millions of people in poor neighborhoods nearby. Who is to say they made a bad choice?


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