Comments on: A Stranger in a Strange Land http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/wellread/2006/09/20/a-stranger-in-a-strange-land/ Just another blogs.smithsonianmag.com weblog Sun, 19 Oct 2008 05:46:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Sarah D. http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/wellread/2006/09/20/a-stranger-in-a-strange-land/comment-page-1/#comment-603 Sarah D. Thu, 05 Oct 2006 02:11:07 +0000 http://wellread.smithsonianmag.com/archives/40#comment-603 Moving away from depencency would require a move away from "a corrupt, graft-filled government; a hopelessness created by poverty and instability; and a violence that seems to be an inescapable way of life." "Aid" isn't aid when it benefits that corrupt government and not the populace. <i>This is often linked with having a “first worldâ€? culture, which becomes problematic when the Liberian culture is lost or sacrificed in the transition. </i> If the Liberian culture is part of what keeps them in poverty and misery, are the loss of parts of that culture a tragedy? Moving away from depencency would require a move away from “a corrupt, graft-filled government; a hopelessness created by poverty and instability; and a violence that seems to be an inescapable way of life.”

“Aid” isn’t aid when it benefits that corrupt government and not the populace.

This is often linked with having a “first worldâ€? culture, which becomes problematic when the Liberian culture is lost or sacrificed in the transition.

If the Liberian culture is part of what keeps them in poverty and misery, are the loss of parts of that culture a tragedy?

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