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To: elmatador who wrote (97575)	1/7/2013 10:22:39 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217975

Countries can no longer afford their culture... LOL Canada thinks it can accommodate everybody's culture ...

To: elmatador who wrote (97575)	1/8/2013 12:16:23 AM
From: Joseph Silent	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217975

Re Countries can no longer afford their culture. It may be the other way around. The American culture cannot afford America and the Japanese culture cannot afford Japan.They go looking for pawn shops. Something is pawned off on the slower cultures with the promise that your life will be better if we all speak and dress the same way and all become Walmart customers. That something invariably involves technology and money. When Europe fell upon the native Americans all was lost for the natives. That is always the way when a stout, foreign man with more powerful technology shows up on your doorstep. The natives are confused, humbled, split, exploited ... and the rest is history. What would happen to the world, I wonder, if there is sudden disclosure about extraterrestrials and long-term (say past 50 years) contact with select operatives in Governments? Treat it as a hypothetical question. We have inferior (to put it mildly, if it has been 50 years) technology. We wake up to the reality that we have been hoodwinked by Govts. (if you find it unimaginable, remember to treat it as hypothesis). That means we don't really know how much of our technology really came from our own smarts and how much was "seeded" by some process that leaked ideas to us. Let your imagination run wild ...... perhaps we are told that we have a few dozen top-secret secret US spaceships. :) That means technology leaked in. Think about nano, bio, materials. How much was leaked in, maybe in a controlled way? There would be so many societal effects. What would happen to the markets? Who could anyone trust anymore? What happens to commerce and to international treaties? Will Walmart try to go extra-global? What becomes of all our cultures? :)

To: elmatador who wrote (97575)	1/8/2013 12:19:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217975

Back in 1997, that process was underway in India: < This goes until the youth, let culture go and chose to survive and thrive. > Talking to a young man [I think in Bangalore], he said that the government had been pushing hindi as the universal language of India. He said that young people were getting really annoyed and rejected that local yokel ideology because they wanted to get good jobs with good pay and not be bound to a backward past. The good jobs required english skills. The local yokel ideology was part of the foolish rejection by political bosses of what was seen as British legacy and colonialism. But VVV are not British - they are universal; honesty, common law, capitalism, private property, reason, science, technology and other things which propelled Great Britain to greatness. Unfortunately for India, they kept the British socialist suffocatocracy, added bribery and corruption in a kleptocratic society, and tried to dump the english lingua franca, thereby causing 60 years of post-British poverty and suffering. Now, they realize that english is their vast economic advantage over China, Indonesia and swarms of other places. The big bucks are flowing in as software developers and others can deal with english-using foreigners. There are $trillions which would invest in India if the capitalists were sure of freedom from kleptocratic greed. But the example of Qualcomm's $billion shows that India is not ready to be trustworthy. Mqurice

To: elmatador who wrote (97575)	1/8/2013 12:37:53 AM
From: arun gera	1 Recommendation Respond to of 217975

<Westerners are not backward because they swiftly adapted their culture to new trends and made the most of it.> For some reasons, people keep complaining that there are too many asians in the best schools...who is adapting better?

To: elmatador who wrote (97575)	1/8/2013 12:44:21 AM
From: arun gera	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217975

<Other countries stick to their culture are slowly being left behind. India and Moslem countries are those that go down grasping their culture in their own hands.> The gap in human workforces across countries is narrowing. An average indian is probably more adept in using his mobile phone in comparison to an average american. And 10 years ago an average indian had never owned a phone. -Arun