Ref;ections on Culture and Development

One day a hunter from the city chanced upon the village on his way to the forest and decided to spend the night in the place. During the night he noticed that the villagers just left their things and tools outside their houses and some of the windows were even left open. That night the hunter was not able to sleep fearing that some burglars might come to rob the village.

The next morning he inquired from his host why the villagers would just leave their things outside their houses, and asked: “Aren’t you worried that your things might be stolen?” His kind host did not understand him at first and asked him to explain what it meant by the things being stolen. So the hunter explained that it meant people

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When we look into the lifestyles and patterns of consumption of our people we realize that there is a growing clamor for the lifestyles and patterns of consumption of the dominant elite as promoted by the TNCs/MNCs through the media. We in the social development field may not be exempt from this predicament as we may have wittingly or unwittingly identified our own lifestyles with those of the ruling elite. In one way or another we collaborate in the perpetration of this system by our very own participation into its processes. When we patronize Coke for example, we contribute in reinforcing the power of the corporation that produces coke, over our sense of taste, to further dominate and exploit us. Or, for example, when we smoke Philip Morris, Marlboro or Winston the Spirit of the USA, we permit ourselves to be subjugated by the prevailing economic order.

Some topics in this essay:
Culture Development, , Eric Fromm, National Product, Accursed Share, Corporations MNCs/TNCs, Choose Life, Song Bird, Imperative Task, Reawakening Development, human person, human desires, development model, culture development, development paradigm, dominant culture, spiritual traditions, prevailing economic, eric fromm, pain suffering, religious spiritual traditions, liberation culture imperative, lifestyles patterns consumption, basic human desires, diverse cultural traditions,