> It may be tempting to dismiss the problems plaguing this region as being self-inflicted, a mere product of backward ways and a collective refusal to catch up.

> It may be tempting to dismiss the problems plaguing this region as being self-inflicted, a mere product of backward ways and a collective refusal to catch up. Neoliberalism and individualism are too popular(ly convenient) in this country, so much so that even if you had > a precise [and uniquely substantiated] thesis for [your] comment , we would have found a clipart way to dismiss it using the very perspectives you said are uninformed.