Sunday, March 25, 2012

Indigenous population

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/nov/25/indigenous-peoples-benefit-development-tribal

Some of the points that I get from this link:
1)  Development turned most of the survivors into dispossessed paupers
  -this is because of high income, rate of employment and imprisonment

2) In North America and Australia, the colonists are trying to steal tribal lands without thinking about the tribes superiority.
-they are using the land for economic purpose
-the natives used to pay no taxes,using no money, but now, it is all "backward". They could have lived their old happy live without those problem.

3)Development takes away something that is already good for them.
-two main things are education and housing.
-Traditional housing has many benefit-not least the fact that it is free.
-In Papua, tribes people put their pigs in the new houses and live in the old one. This shows that they are more comfortable with their old houses.
-In Australia, the children were forced to enter boarding school which educate them to be workers. This situation turned them into an underclass which would not be if they live their old life.

4) Infrastructure development
-Dams and mines -enrich the elites while impoverishing the locals.

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