Even as a self styled history nerd, I admittedly knew little of the history of India as a whole and literally nothing of Jawaharlal Nehru, that was something I instantly regretted after reading the text book primary source, especially since outside sources are nonexistent. However, sometimes I feel that paralysis by information is a real phenomenon, something I have learned the hard way dabbling into my chosen field of sports prognostication. My point being that taking his words at face value and letting their humanity and egalitarian nature jump off the page unblemished by any preconceived notion of the man or his message might be the best way to read them. My curiosity as to what ideas he planned to implement to make this possible will go
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That might be the one constant linking the financial ideals of the world from nineteen forty to the present day. Unfortunately what I do not need outside sources to confirm is that a large majority of his dream remains unfulfilled, over seventy five years after the publication of these quotes. That pertains not only to India herself but the world as a whole and especially the global economy. Jawaharlal would be happy to see that the age of classical imperialism is over, if the new model that has replaced it truly serves the worlds developing peoples any better is for far sharper minds than my own to decide, but from the cheap seats it looks like a cheaper and more morally flexible way to steal a regions natural resources without even the infrastructure build up that usually accompanied a colonization effort. What price is too high to join the modern world? Do people have a right to opt out if they so choose? I feel as if we have not found the answers to those questions and fear there is nobody left to ask them, they have all modernized or martyrized waiting on us to figure it …show more content…
I had fancied myself as fairly in the know for my education level when it comes to African history. It turns out that I am slightly in the know about colonial African history and know almost nothing of Africa in the latter half of the twentieth century, the how and why of what she became when freed from the colonial yoke. Even if the wanton international interference into African affairs continued, with startlingly little benefit to native Africans. It seems that the world lumps African civil rights as a whole under the Biko banner and apartheid, the same way American children are taught about Martin Luther King Jr. and little else of the triumph over Jim Crow, how and why that is could be debated almost endlessly without resolution. Unlike Nehru, who I agreed with because I consider myself a humanist and believe that a better world is possible and should be the ultimate goal of every human being, while reading Senghor I felt as if I had these exact same thoughts myself. A black man in a world who 's rules were not created for him, who has seen and lived what economic disparity has done to entire communities and generations and a man struggling to defend the intricacies of socialism because the system he finds himself in is fatally flawed. I am
That might be the one constant linking the financial ideals of the world from nineteen forty to the present day. Unfortunately what I do not need outside sources to confirm is that a large majority of his dream remains unfulfilled, over seventy five years after the publication of these quotes. That pertains not only to India herself but the world as a whole and especially the global economy. Jawaharlal would be happy to see that the age of classical imperialism is over, if the new model that has replaced it truly serves the worlds developing peoples any better is for far sharper minds than my own to decide, but from the cheap seats it looks like a cheaper and more morally flexible way to steal a regions natural resources without even the infrastructure build up that usually accompanied a colonization effort. What price is too high to join the modern world? Do people have a right to opt out if they so choose? I feel as if we have not found the answers to those questions and fear there is nobody left to ask them, they have all modernized or martyrized waiting on us to figure it …show more content…
I had fancied myself as fairly in the know for my education level when it comes to African history. It turns out that I am slightly in the know about colonial African history and know almost nothing of Africa in the latter half of the twentieth century, the how and why of what she became when freed from the colonial yoke. Even if the wanton international interference into African affairs continued, with startlingly little benefit to native Africans. It seems that the world lumps African civil rights as a whole under the Biko banner and apartheid, the same way American children are taught about Martin Luther King Jr. and little else of the triumph over Jim Crow, how and why that is could be debated almost endlessly without resolution. Unlike Nehru, who I agreed with because I consider myself a humanist and believe that a better world is possible and should be the ultimate goal of every human being, while reading Senghor I felt as if I had these exact same thoughts myself. A black man in a world who 's rules were not created for him, who has seen and lived what economic disparity has done to entire communities and generations and a man struggling to defend the intricacies of socialism because the system he finds himself in is fatally flawed. I am