Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fisher.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!astrovax!fisher!david 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 Article-I.D.: fisher.432 Posted: Fri Nov 30 08:36:31 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 3-Dec-84 12:29:44 EST References: <566@asgb.UUCP>, <234@rlgvax.UUCP> Organization: Princeton Univ. Statistics Lines: 11 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