--sigh--
So, more of the "White Man's Burden" eh? Here's Kippling's famous poem, written in 1899, in response to the Spanish-American War.
“The White Man’s Burden: The United States and The Philippine Islands.”It's amazing to me that a big slice of the Conservative movement is still stuck on previously failed solutions with regards to nation building.Take up the White Man’s burden—
Send forth the best ye breed—
Go send your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild—
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child
Take up the White Man’s burden
In patience to abide
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple
An hundred times made plain
To seek another’s profit
And work another’s gain
Take up the White Man’s burden—
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better
The hate of those ye guard—
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah slowly) to the light:
"Why brought ye us from bondage,
“Our loved Egyptian night?”
Take up the White Man’s burden-
Have done with childish days-
The lightly proffered laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years,
Cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers!
It doesn't work in the 3rd world, and it won't work in the 3rd world.
Nothing really has changed since Kippling's time except now, if one is willing to educate oneself, we know better.
Leaving aside the long history of failed attempts to "help" the 3rd world, from colonialism, to de-colonialism, to neo-colonialism, to the anti-apartheid movement, to Bob Geldorf, we now, thanks to science, know a lot more about people than we used to.
We know that race is not a "social construct" as we were taught as kids, thanks to the fake-science of the Frankfurt School. (And we know about the Frankfort School too, hopefully). We know race is a matter of DNA, and for $49 you can send q-tip off and find out about yours. We know that there is a significant variation from group-to-group, but also that there are group traits, group averages, group diseases, etc.
The nature/nurture debate has been settled, and nature won.
Given this the colonial program might still b the most practical for a lot of places, but of course, it led to many problems too. Best to just separate and leave them alone.
If this seems odd or cruel I suggest reading this popular science book of a few years ago. It's not by some neo-Nazi, the author is a quite respectable fellow and the book was a New York Times bestseller. His tone is almost apologetic, for having to break so many cherished fairy tales, but broken they must be.
And, if all that fails, consider the tone of the article and the attitude of the people we help. Sure their is the occassional (very occassional) deserving individual who has the drive and ability to move above their background and surroundings. But for every one of them there is a group of guys like this thanking your for your attempts at "moral education":
