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Isn't this just western paternalism phrased to sound noble? Here we come, with our advanced ways, to fix problems you might not even consider problems.
by nostromo 14y ago
Isn't this just western paternalism phrased to sound noble?
Here we come, with our advanced ways, to fix problems you might not even consider problems.
- redwood 14y agoOn the one hand, yes. On the other hand, the inclination to scream 'paternalism' when folks from cosmopolitan cultures talk about problems in homogeneous ones that are struggling with problems caused by modernity, I think, is often naive Problems like the overpopulation that occurs when you introduce modern medicine and the green revolution but don't couple that with family planning cannot simply be fixed by organic cultural isolation. There's a sense that we talk abut rich v poor or western v exotic or etc but the better comparison is cosmopolitan-global vs homogeneous-traditional. The latter simply cannot compete against the problems of today.
- D_Alex 14y agoPaternalism: behavior, by a person, organization or state, which limits some person or group's liberty or autonomy for their own good. I do not see any evidence of this in the grandparent post. Edit: Also, I'd like to point out this, on the same front page of Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5390420 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5390420