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| Topic | How can Mexico aim to become a developed country? |
| TheGreatEscape 04/14/21 7:24:29 PM #25: | red_is_ash posted... I knew someone was going to say this. The US, despite its faults is not an undeveloped country. 99% of people in this country have normal lives and the basic necessities. If you take an average American person and then an average Mexican person, the American would be much better off. I'm not trying to say the US is on par with like Eritrea or something, but contextually one could definitely make a case that the US has a huge poverty and inequality problem relatively to how rich it is or that its education is very poor in many states, even compared to some developing countries and that access to food and water is also extremely unequal. This would also apply to many European countries like Hungary or Poland that would be regarded as developed. Anyway, I'm not really feeling going into a huge discourse on the problems of the ethnocentric developmentalist ideology and how we define "good" standards of living, but let's just say that it tends to skew our view of other countries by making them look much worse than they actually are while obfuscating our own internal issues. --- The user formerly known as RogerHuxley ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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