the same reason dogs eat vomit and crap...Reminds me of an old PBS show on Africa years ago.
The women traveled five miles to get water.
The UN then drills them a well and shows them how to use it.
Two years later the women are traveling 5 miles to get water as the well pump is broke, and NONE of the men will fix it.
Result, The UN brings in parts and teaches the WOMEN how to pull and repair it as the men refuse to do anything.
Reminds me of a story Peter Hathaway Capstick used to tell about Africa.
The women traveled to get water. At a certain river with easy access to the stream they filled their jugs.
Unfortunately, often a crocodile would grab a woman and submerge with her.
All the tribesmen had to do was build a row of poles to keep the crock out of the area where the women got the water, but no-0-o. Too much work. Easier to replace a woman ever so often.
I think it is both intelligence an culture.
Sowell’s trilogy on cultures answers a lot of questions.
My daughter lives in a Central American country. She says that she loves the people but cannot get much done. If she goes to the store she has to stop by each house on the way there and on the way back or the people living there will be angry and say that she doesn’t like them. And this goes for everyone. They are all building and maintaining relationship that it bleeds into everything.
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The thing that burns my rear end is the Mexicans putting their used toilet paper in the trash instead of flushing it...gross.
Mexico, Latin America, and much of the third world in our hemisphere don’t have anything that works because the Caudillo thugs take it. And Haiti...Well, political correctness prevents me from commenting on that dump. There was a story that they are still “waiting” for someone to rebuild their nation. They are WAITING!!! How many able bodied people are in Haiti just waiting around for someone else to do something for them?
All third world dumps have one thing in common. ZERO property rights. Why even bother pretending to care about your property when thugs will take it. If you have something nice you lose it.
India, I have a little bit of perspective when I did some contract work in Chandigarh, which is ‘modern’ compared to the rest of India. The reason things are so inefficiently done is because you have to keep a billion people busy doing something. Anything, doesn’t matter. I was doing an installation of a large ‘sculpture’ at a new building. Rather than have a forklift they had 100 men come out and carry the sculpture. If you need a ditch, why hire a back hoe that can dig the ditch in 2 hours when you can have an army of men that can dig it in two week for half the cost?. It makes sense to have all those men doing something for a little bit of cash rather then have them sitting around doing nothing.
Well, my father always said, “never crap where you eat and live.” I guess they never learn that over htere.
i read a destription where the women in a village walked 6 miles to get water daily. My question is, “ Why don’t the men dig a well?” When my neighbor needed water for his barn he duy a well. Not drilled -dug. And so it goes.
You’ll appreciate this ChinaSmack poster’s impression of India:
http://www.chinasmack.com/2010/pictures/filthy-india-photos-chinese-netizen-reactions.html
Ukraine. Not quite a third world country but pretty damn close. A public restroom in Ukraine will be staffed by three women. One sells you entrance, the second sells you toilet paper and the third mops the floor. I figured this was a hold-over from the "100% employment" of the Soviet days.
Why not just stock the commodes with toilet paper? Simple. People will steal it. Same reason they have lightbulb testers in the stores. They test your lightbulb in front of you before you pay for it. This prevents you from bringing back your old burned-out bulb and trying to claim it was the one you just purchased.
Why? Education, that’s why.
Why do you think the Rats camp out in all the schools, at every level? Because they know that destroying education is the key to everything they want the world to be. To the Rats, the Third World isn’t a problem - it’s the model of the GOAL. For more info, look up “inner city,” “common core” and “Detroit.”
Yes. And losing all the cattle to predators or criminals also occurred.
Flies are better then starvation.
Why would they hire them to fix something that is not theirs?
the same reason dogs eat vomit and crap...