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It's because those countries don't protect themselves from foreign predatory selling. Developed countries have all sorts of restrictions on what their own citiz
by sacrosancty 5y ago
It's because those countries don't protect themselves from foreign predatory selling. Developed countries have all sorts of restrictions on what their own citizens can import, what can be sold locally, even what free gifts they can accept, to prevent prevent that sort of exploitation. But the common feature of poor countries is that they're bad at self-governing, so they're kind of at the mercy of everyone else. What can other people do about that? Regime change? That's been tried a lot and doesn't work.
I know this sounds cold, but blaming what foreigners do on them is kind of fruitless. There are so many of them waiting to exploit anyone. It's like blaming foreign hackers for hacking your computers or even blaming the weather for blowing down your fence. Yes, it's technically their fault, but you're never going to eliminate those outside forces so you'd better improve your own security.
Not sure why you singled out the ethnicity of the people in those foreign countries since China does it too now.
- jrochkind1 5y agoI know you already declared it "fruitless" but it's worth looking into the decades that the USA and other countries spent using all the political, economic, and military force they could to prevent these countries from protecting themselves from foreign predatory selling, it's probably part of the picture.
- lupire 5y ago"Fruitless" is a funny word when you read about the USA+Dole Corporation wars on South America. Tribal and religious wars are nothing compared to the wars waged for corporate and imperial interests.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> "Fruitless" is a funny word when you read about the USA+Dole Corporation wars on South America. North America, mostly; specifically, Central America, which is part of North, not South, America.
- azemetre 5y agoYou need to realize that a lot of this is pushed on developing nations through the IMF and other organizations that force countries to sign extremely poor deals out of desperation. How exactly do you expect a country to stop stronger countries when they have a weak government, military, social services, and treasury? You can read a cursory of these issues here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Monetary_Fund#Criticisms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Monetary_Fund#Cr... FWIW China is doing the same thing as the IMF through its belt and road initiative, that doesn't make it right either.
- sacrosancty 4y agoOK, didn't know it was the IMF's fault.
- x86_64Ubuntu 5y agoYou do realize that a common feature of these poor countries is non-stop meddling in their local affairs, especially by the West. If there is a politician or political group that would affect the flow of resources out of said country, then they end up having a regime change or their opposition receives a wealth of arms and/or money.
- markdown 5y ago> It's because those countries don't protect themselves from foreign predatory selling. Can't do that. You'd have the IMF and World Bank on your backs if you tried to place restrictions on trade. This is a one-way street.