5/29/2002: Spidering American culture

[jaguar]

thankyou warch, you beat me to it.

The upside is that the cultural notes the old cultures get in return are a fabulous deal. In a sense, the Thai "lose" because they did not come up with the idea of futures markets. So now we get Pad Gai from the Thai; in return, we give them notions like rule of law, respect for women, free elections, individual and civil rights, market economies, modern medicine, etc.

Hmm not really. What you're talking about sounds like cultural colonisation to me - sure we piligaed every natural resource they had, trashed the place, but now they go to church and have western clothing...and we all know the results of colonialism. I don't see why it has to be a 'swap', why thousands of years of tradition has to be lost, at the end of the day we all lose becoase of that becase you cannot repalce knowledge. Its liek loggong the amazon, we're taking cures to thousands of diseases with it, and its irripleaceable.