Global Stratification & Poverty: Crash Course Sociology #27
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Victor
This seems to imply that without colonialism everyone would be in a similar bracket. Respecting different cultures requires that you regard them as different enough to generate different results. They have different priorities and may have different ideas (of time, of the individual, or being part of a greater world) percolating. The west producing the current culture implies a deep cultural alignment with the culturally specific version of civilization (full of its assumptions, weird values.
I think a lot of histories of the west would imply that the west had dozens of advantages/lucky breaks, such that western nations might well have infrastructure advantages even dating back 2000 years. It's not like everyone started from the same point.
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This seems to imply that without colonialism everyone would be in a similar bracket. Respecting different cultures requires that you regard them as different enough to generate different results. They have different priorities and may have different ideas (of time, of the individual, or being part of a greater world) percolating. The west producing the current culture implies a deep cultural alignment with the culturally specific version of civilization (full of its assumptions, weird values.
I think a lot of histories of the west would imply that the west had dozens of advantages/lucky breaks, such that western nations might well have infrastructure advantages even dating back 2000 years. It's not like everyone started from the same point.
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crash_course
Crashcourse. it bothers me that you treat slavery as a problem of the 3rd world but not America. We have millions of americans right now doing free labor for private corporations and they're called prisons. Whatever you think of the people in there, they are enslaved. They are working for nothing, under penalty of physical violence. We are the most incarcerated nation in the country. Slavery is state-sponsored in the US.
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Crashcourse. it bothers me that you treat slavery as a problem of the 3rd world but not America. We have millions of americans right now doing free labor for private corporations and they're called prisons. Whatever you think of the people in there, they are enslaved. They are working for nothing, under penalty of physical violence. We are the most incarcerated nation in the country. Slavery is state-sponsored in the US.
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Sarah
Thank you for all the informative videos and knowledge you provide! Truly appreciate the effort.
One question though on this video: It is said (5. 22) that many women are kept from working due to religious beliefs. What religious belief system prohibits women from working? As I know none and in the video it is mentioned that indeed there are religious beliefs which do just that, I would appreciate further background on that!
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Thank you for all the informative videos and knowledge you provide! Truly appreciate the effort.
One question though on this video: It is said (5. 22) that many women are kept from working due to religious beliefs. What religious belief system prohibits women from working? As I know none and in the video it is mentioned that indeed there are religious beliefs which do just that, I would appreciate further background on that!
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Petitio
I've seen somewhere that, even though colonies were exploited by the colonizers, they end up faring better than neighboring regions that didn't have this -advantage-, as it brought some wealth and infra-structure necessary for the whole colonial deal, and possibly even institutions from where locals could eventually benefit from, as moral evolved and so forth.
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I've seen somewhere that, even though colonies were exploited by the colonizers, they end up faring better than neighboring regions that didn't have this -advantage-, as it brought some wealth and infra-structure necessary for the whole colonial deal, and possibly even institutions from where locals could eventually benefit from, as moral evolved and so forth.
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Kristopher
Sounds like absolute poverty would be solved by simply not allowing Monsanto to own corn genes, corn subsidies thanks to Monsanto lobbying, energy/pesticide prices thanks to OPEC, and even the insulin after we inject corn syrup into everything else we produce. Stop Monsanto and absolute poverty is eradicated in a year.
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Sounds like absolute poverty would be solved by simply not allowing Monsanto to own corn genes, corn subsidies thanks to Monsanto lobbying, energy/pesticide prices thanks to OPEC, and even the insulin after we inject corn syrup into everything else we produce. Stop Monsanto and absolute poverty is eradicated in a year.
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gnet
You included North Korea in the group of nations which is the lowest income and then talk about how these nations have basically no education. yet there they are, doing literal rocket and nuclear science. Something tells me your grouping is flawed.
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You included North Korea in the group of nations which is the lowest income and then talk about how these nations have basically no education. yet there they are, doing literal rocket and nuclear science. Something tells me your grouping is flawed.
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Lilly
Hate to break to you but most Brazilians do not have comfortable standards of living. People die in lines waiting for emergency care and children in the Northeastern part of the country don't have drinking water. Define 'comfortable ' again?
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Hate to break to you but most Brazilians do not have comfortable standards of living. People die in lines waiting for emergency care and children in the Northeastern part of the country don't have drinking water. Define 'comfortable ' again?
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Greenbean
Wikipedia has a different map of the first world, second world, third world. I saw it under the Wikipedia article -First World. - They don-t have Libya, Ethiopia, Burma. how come those are considered first world?
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Wikipedia has a different map of the first world, second world, third world. I saw it under the Wikipedia article -First World. - They don-t have Libya, Ethiopia, Burma. how come those are considered first world?
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Kate
Nice job. It is worth noting that poor areas are not well equipped to handle the consequences what what we consider modern pesticides, or the debt and insecurity of high input monocropping practices.
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Nice job. It is worth noting that poor areas are not well equipped to handle the consequences what what we consider modern pesticides, or the debt and insecurity of high input monocropping practices.
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European
I don't get how not having -reproductive healthcare- (liberal code for abortion and the pill) is gender inequality. Men also tend not to have contraception when women don't as far as I know.
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I don't get how not having -reproductive healthcare- (liberal code for abortion and the pill) is gender inequality. Men also tend not to have contraception when women don't as far as I know.
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