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Name: Lin
Country: Myanmar
Metro: Yangon
Birthday: 1/7/1987
Gender: Male
Interests: Hinduism, Art, Making Music, PLaying the slinky 4 string, Hanging out, holding against all beliefs, not followning the herd, hating myself, hating everyone else, loving everyone, bitching over politics, Lord Ganesh the Almighty, coffee, tea, surfing, skateboarding , Staying up at night, Running around, Revealing, hiding,talking to god (if there was one), not believing in the almighty, impossibilities, possbilities, intellectual conversations, dumb conversations, pointless conversations, and conversations in genreal, winning, trying harder, slacking off, and everything else under the sun.
Expertise: Nothing
Occupation: Student
Industry: Art
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Member Since:
4/21/2005
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| In these times of trouble, pray for the best yet be prepared for the worst. Lend a helping hand in anyway you can. Political standings aside, I thank certain rationale members in the government to accept international aid and assistance regardless of their hidden motives and agendas. In a time of disaster, its always best to accept decisions best for the majority. Hopefully this too shall pass.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7384041.stm
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| We are all victims of a capitalist world. The line demarcating wants and needs have slowly diminished. Free trade hearsay takes precedent as the gospel of the modern world.
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| Where do you see yourself in the next ten years? Making a fat wad of cash? Maybe changing the world through inspired speeches and articulated rhetoric? Do you see yourself poor? Rich? Happy? Sad? Maybe we all should follow Kierkegaard's existentialist approach and satiate our pleasures. Plus once we are bored of it why not satisfy our lives of piety? What lies ahead for me is a burning question especially for someone without a clue of what he wants to do. How can anyone be so sure of their goals in life?
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| False Paradigms of development strategies: are we getting the wrong education?The term "Neo Colonial dependency theorist" was first created during the Economic Council for Latin American countries (ECLA) during the early 90s. The event was sponsored by the United Nations as a means to figure out why modernization strategies and other related macro economical theories have furthered poverty and not lessened it. Scholars representing Latin American countries came up with the term "delayed dependency" as a reason for why they thought it was so. They explained that the process was "delayed" since it colonialism made the periphery states (developing nations) dependent on decision made by the center "developed imperialist". Till this day, the developing nations are at the whim of decisions made by Multinational Lending institutions such as the World Bank and IMF, members of the G8, and the hands of large (rich elite states) are at the pockets of every decision making processes of developing nations. So their means of alleviating from this third world hiatus status was to break away from dependency and the major need for reform in the international structure.
With the dependency of developing nations to the center states, the scholars explains that there are three general categories to which this further perpetuation of dependency is created. The first was economics, second international laws, tariffs and the system, and lastly, the education. Ever since question the values of a liberal arts education, it has come to the attention I am being categorized under a "false paradigm". So why did the scholars define education to be one of the problems? They stated that students studying abroad are suited with inappropriate, unsuited education that does not serve the needs of the periphery nation. The education received in these Center nations are geared towards the further propagation of the international structure that exists today. Although this justification is often at times defined as xenophobic by certain scholar's standards, I feel as though there is an inkling of truth in it. Of what use will philosophy provide me when I go back to work in Burma? Isn't the reason to brain drain the result of exposure to liberal education that is much more suited for the developed world? Aren't we at times promoting "Western thought" and at times proving to ourselves as gospel truth?
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