IS IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR OTHER NATIONS OF THE WORLD TO BECOME LIKE US?

IS IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR OTHER NATIONS OF THE WORLD TO BECOME LIKE US?

[+] ballot by aya
ACTIVE Thu Mar 01, 07 - Fri Feb 29, 08
One consistent complaint is that other cultures are barbaric, etc. To some extent, the way gays and women are treated is barbaric, but at the same time, what can be done? If we really want other countries to become 'functioning' democracies like us, how can that happen if 5% of the planet controls 95% of the world's recourses? Certainly, corruption in their own governments plays a point, but if we really wanted other countries to become like us, doesn't that also mean that our standard of living would have to go down?

A democracy can't exist unless the citizens have the basic needs cared for and are economically self sustaining.

Can other countries really become like us if 5% of the planet controls 95% of the world's resources?

yes (explain below)
no
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Our citizens have access to all the water, most can afford food, etc. But poor people in other countries are worse off.

by aya on Thu Mar 01, 07 12:15pm [+]

Voted : yes (explain below)
Even were the inequities to be erased totally, IMO, such could still happen, as long as differences remain among human beings in general.

by Truthseeker013 on Thu Mar 01, 07 1:10pm [+]

I personally am against globalisation.

by winston on Thu Mar 01, 07 5:05pm [+]

Voted : yes (explain below)
By your definition of resources, all those countries have to do is develop their own. When agriculture was first developed, the figure was probably much the same. But what happened? Technology spread and parts of the world that were still chucking spears (I'm looking at you Europe) when some Arabs or Persians developed agriculture became as advanced and eventually surpassed the first civilized humans.

5% of the population controlling 95% of the wealth may just be natural, but the level of wealth will continue to rise. A westerner living in "poverty" today has a greater standard of living than the top 5% did a few hundred years ago.

by thc2883 on Fri Mar 02, 07 6:42am [+]

thc, but that doesn't account for things like water and oil. how can other countries enjoy a good standard of living, if we're hogging it all?

by aya on Sat Mar 03, 07 10:30am [+]

^Oil will eventually be supplanted and I'm not sure if it's distributed as unevenly as wealth. Water can be obtained relatively cheap.

by thc2883 on Sat Mar 03, 07 6:25pm [+]