Continued

Then we get Paul. He wants us to educate them. What a fool. They have all the education they need to live their superior life style. They know how to;
Build a canoe for nothing;
Catch all the fish they need;
Build a house;
Harvest & open a coconut;
And how to grow some taro.

What the hell does he think he can teach them?
How to work 9 to 5;
How to complain about the "bosses";
How to organize a strike.

There is not a damn thing useful that Paul could teach anyone but a fool lefty undergraduate in one of our almost useless universities, & certainly nothing useful to man or beast.

There is a lot they could teach our Poirot & Paul, if their minds weren't closed like a steel trap.

Time our money was spent trying to rehabilitate some of the poor brainwashed fools, we have already "educated".

Ignorance is the major cause of unpleasant
disconnects between people. In extreme cases,
terrorism aimed at killing fellow human beings exists
and has to be explained. The lack of exposure to
other cultures leads to narrow-mindedness and, worse, to
an "us-them" divide.

Education is the answer.

Hasbeen, your ignorance on this subject knows no bounds. take this bit of rubbish.
"Slip out into the Pacific & you will find people we are supposed to fund with foreign aid, who can feed themselves with less than a couple of hours effort a day, & clothes themselves for a few minutes effort a week."
In the highland village I visited recently which is only accessible by 4WD, the men work 6 days a week in the gardens growing food, both cash crops and home food, to get their crop to market it requires a truck which costs $160 for the day, So much for your "couple of hours work a day" nonsense. Where wages are $2.50 to $4 tops an hour for those in a job, a shirt costs $15 and a good pair of sandals $30 and you need a serviceable pair I can tell you I paid $55. Milk $3.25/Lt only long life, if you are mega rich you can buy a 200g block of Cadburys chocolate for $8. Housing is 1 room with a kitchen annex, no power or running water, not much in the way of furniture, mostly woven floor mats, everyone eats and sleeps on the floor, 12 including kids. I can't be bothered exploring the rest of your rubbish.
As I said Hasbeen, your ignorance knows no bounds. It would be a waste of time explaining to you the value of education, health services etc to these people. It would be more productive talking to a baboon than it is to you.

It would be more productive talking to a baboon than it is to you.
Paul1405,
What ? You're not a Baboon ? I think you are by the way you dismiss Hasbeen's experience.

Dear Individual,

What about Paul's experience?
He merely responded to Hasbeen's post
and spoke of what he (Paul) had experienced that was totally
different from what Hasbeen was citing.

We've seen that people in different walks of life may
interpret the same phenomenon - in very different ways.
In other words, people tend to see the world from a
viewpoint of subjectivity - an interpretation influenced
by one's background, training, education, and prior
experiences as well as personal values.

Inevitably we're all guilty of some measure of bias -
the tendency, often unconscious, to interpret things
according to one's own values. As in you calling
Paul a "baboon." I gather that's
because Paul's views disagree with your values,
whereas Hasbeen's don't - hence the name calling of one
and not the other.

cont'd ...

I forgot to add that yes, I'm guilty of
the same bias as well. Paul's views are
more of a match to my values than those of
Hasbeen. Hence my being more sympathetic
to Paul's views than those of Hasbeen.