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From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: 3rd world savages
Message-ID: <432@fisher.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Nov-84 08:36:31 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 30 08:36:31 1984
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Nice theory that the colonial powers are responsible for third world
civil wars by playing up animosities between various factions. Let's
conduct a quick thought experiment to check it.  If this were indeed
the case, it would be expected that third world countries without
lengthy domination by colonial powers would be relatively free of
factional violence. There are a few of those countries, (e.g.
Ethiopia, Thailand), and they appear as violent as the third world in
general. Thus, we can conclude that the EVIDENCE does not warrant
assigning the blame exclusively to Imperialism.

					David Rubin