What is the third world, and why are some countries developing while others claim to be developed?
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We were given 8 questions that we had to answer indivitually, which was about Globalization around the world. The questions were answered from our general knowledge and was not based on anything we had read beforehand or in the lesson. We then got some reading material we had to read and we were given 30 min to do so. Afterwards we had to discuss it in our groups.
Is being poor the same as being underdeveloped?
Examples on discourses
Straight or gay – the way we approach sexuality. People have tendencies to produce stereotypes and minorities
- Huts or houses – someone who live in huts are considered as primitive because we, in Europe, lives in houses.
- Civil war or tribal war – civil war in Yugoslavia and civil war in Rwanda (considered as tribal wars).
Simply by using our language we can create a discourse about people
Macro development discourses:
The Truman discourse:
- “Their economic life is primitive and stagnant. Their poverty is a handicap and a threat both to them and to more prosperous areas.”
- “I believe that we should make available to peace-loving peoples the benefits of our store of technical knowledge in order to help them realize their aspirations for a better life.”
- “Greater production is the key to prosperity and peace. And the key to greater production is a wider and more vigorous application of modern scientific and technical knowledge.”.
Micro development discourses:
Identify the different power relations in the two Eritrean cases. Explain your choice:
- 1. Case: Different, better educated. The Eritrean teacher actually wants to learn something and is eager to hear Marcus’ opinion. The teachers have much more power than the students since they are allowed to punish them, but on the same time they do not all dare to tell Marcus how they punish them.
- 2. Case: The Indians are considered more valuable. The male teacher is a bit arrogant and he only wants Marcus to give him a recommendation so that he can go earn more money in the capital. The teacher also relies totally on the book and is hard to understand because of his dialect. Marcus questions him about that and he just says; ”Teaching in Barantu is associated with a lot of hardship for him as all the students and local teachers are lazy Africans.”
