crowd became excited and seemed torn between fits of laughter, shock, and rage. John was intimated and stood out in the crowd where Nixon said something which Rasy translated for John, “Give this one to the World Bank. See what it can do to make us some money off Indonesia.” He, Nixon lifted Indonesia’s map and was about to drop into the bucket where at the moment another puppet leaped out which represented an Indonesian man. This puppet flew between the Nixon and the bucket man and held up his hand and shouted Indonesia in Sovereign. The crowd applauded where the bucket man lifted his flag and killed the Indonesian man. The crowd hooted and screamed and shook their fists. Nixon and Bucket Man stood and bowed and left the stage.
John was disturbed …show more content…
This night in Bandung catapulted John to a new level of thinking and feeling; his reactions had been ruled by emotions. The discussions with the young Indonesians forced John to see another aspect of the issue. He realized that a selfish approach to foreign policy does not serve or protect future generations anywhere.
John, having advantage of his time alone because the data he needed for his economic forecasts required frequent visit to Jakarta decided to ponder these matter and to write them about in a journal. John wandered the streets, handed money to beggars, pondered the nature of foreign aid, and legitimate role that developed countries might play in helping alleviate poverty and misery in less developed countries. John began to wonder when foreign aid is genuine and when it is greedy and self serving, whether such aid is altruistic or whether it could be changed. He was certain that countries should take action to help the sick and starving of the world, and he was equally certain that this was seldom, the prime motivation for our intervention. The main question was still there that having imperialism as an objective of foreign aid is wrong. He found himself envying people like Charlie who wanted to force his system on the rest of the world. He doubted whether limited resources would allow the whole world to live the life of the United States, even when
John was disturbed …show more content…
This night in Bandung catapulted John to a new level of thinking and feeling; his reactions had been ruled by emotions. The discussions with the young Indonesians forced John to see another aspect of the issue. He realized that a selfish approach to foreign policy does not serve or protect future generations anywhere.
John, having advantage of his time alone because the data he needed for his economic forecasts required frequent visit to Jakarta decided to ponder these matter and to write them about in a journal. John wandered the streets, handed money to beggars, pondered the nature of foreign aid, and legitimate role that developed countries might play in helping alleviate poverty and misery in less developed countries. John began to wonder when foreign aid is genuine and when it is greedy and self serving, whether such aid is altruistic or whether it could be changed. He was certain that countries should take action to help the sick and starving of the world, and he was equally certain that this was seldom, the prime motivation for our intervention. The main question was still there that having imperialism as an objective of foreign aid is wrong. He found himself envying people like Charlie who wanted to force his system on the rest of the world. He doubted whether limited resources would allow the whole world to live the life of the United States, even when