Few items to understand before criticising developing/third-world countries

I recently had some of these items explained to me in great detail:

(1). Majority if not all of the developing or 3rd world countries are less than 100 years old and are still on a learning curve

(2). We often say they are corrupt and their leaders embezzle funds, BUT most if not all of such embezzled funds are not kept nor invested in 3rd world countries – they are sat in Swiss bank accounts or other banks in the so-called developed countries; so, a bit of complicity there right?

(3). Most of these countries are exactly where developed countries were at the same stage. In any case, you only have to look at the supposed ”united states of america” where the present division and partisan wrangling means truth and facts no longer exist. And the United Kingdom? (with Scotland ever so keen to quit the union). Compared to majority of the so-called 3rd world countries who only came out of colonial rule few decades ago (70, 80 years ago?), inheriting forced union of tribes and people who were bundled together sole for colonial convenience. It is a wonder that there haven’t been many other Rwanda-style genocide in many of these post-colonialism countries

(4). We left them with a system of government (democracy) that took centuries to work in the so-called developed countries, but expect the 3rd world countries to miraculously make it work in just a few decades and when they struggle with coup after coup, we call them savages, forgetting our own history…

(5). Instead of helping them to industrialise and develop, we put a noose around their neck with IMF and World Bank loans, unlike the freebies handed to Japan and Germany post-World War 2. The intention is all too clear: you only have to look at the colour of inhabitants of every 3rd world/under-developed country and that of every so-called developed country and those who think the idiots that yell abuse or throw bananas at football games are the threat? Nope. it is decades of our policies that’s the threat and kept these countries in the pitiful state they are in, so we can call them shit-hole countries and tell visitors to ”go back where you’re from”…

(6). We have continued to manipulate and destabilise these countries for a number of awful reasons. People ask where some of those warring in 3rd world countries get their weapons from? These are countries where we watch TV clips of children starving to death but shiny machettes and AK-47 assault rifles are somehow affordable?

(7). The best talents from 3rd world countries are left with little choice but to move over to developed countries (even if they face double standards there)

It took most developed countries several centuries (ignoring benefits of the forced labour (slavery) they enjoyed for centuries and additional decades of colonialism) to develop – and even after that stretch of time, you only have to look at ongoing economic struggles in Greece and depressions in Ireland and other countries at the turn of the last millennium, to see that the expectation that these less than 100 year old 3rd world countries can emerge from colonialisation to become super-powers? Where they are today, is exactly where any country under the same circumstances will be! They are not corrupt savages.

Unfortunately, in a free enterprise system, it’s like the Olympic games: all have to compete regardless of circumstances and we award medals: ”developed”, ”developing” and ”3rd world”….

Just watching BBC’s Last Night of the Proms and you see why Great Britain is indeed great. We just need to help others; our greatness is not diminished when we help 3rd world countries get to a level of development too. We must hush-up those who seek to divide, spread hate etc. Mistakes of the past are what they are – nobody can undo that, but we can enable a better future, but we haven’t yet….