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On the westerner’s point of view, it’s sort of a very subtle way to cover up our egotistical and greedy lifestyle. How else could we, 20% of the earth’s population, be able to justify consuming 80% of the world’s resources??? This being said, here is what I think cooperation between the north and the south should be all about. Cooperation should teach young westerners and young Africans what international Aid is really about and how it has to change. They should also put the *real* reality of one to the other and vice-versa. Young westerners should be shown how great and non-miserable the African people and culture are and young Africans should be shown how life in the west is not Dallas-like as they seem to think. Problems are everywhere, just of very different nature and at very different levels.
Cooperation is all about the links and exchanges that are created in between the cooperant and the African. It’s all about the exchanges of information, intercultural comprehension and the pacification of humanity. We got to stop talking about individuals and profits and start talking about exchanges, equality, partnerships and freedom. Everyone needs to stop thinking westerners have the key to the great African development (starting with the westerners themselves!). Even if they had that key, I really doubt they’d want to use it. If we compare our present society to the animal kingdom, the western society is the most dangerous of them all. Any animal will stop hunting once its basic needs are satisfied. All what westerners are doing right now is killing everything they see even though they are not hungry anymore. Not a very sustainable lifestyle I would say.
Let’s stop kidding ourselves! Africans are living what the western society tells them to live. Plus, look at what we have done in the west! Is this really what we want for them? Is this really what they want for themselves? Would this really be possible anyways?? They should know there is more to it than what they see in American soap operas. For a society to live the way we do in the west, others, a lot of others have to suffer and live in poverty. Plus, I know it’s hard to imagine for them but I think Africans should realize the chance they have of being the last society holding the opportunity to a better development. We now know, in the West, that our lifestyle has great consequences and very tangible limits. Wouldn’t it be wise to learn from this mistake instead of wanting to jump off the same cliff as us? But anyways, if you want my advice, at least forget about western aid and the American Dream. Accepting it is like agreeing to slavery and dependence, if Africans want changes in their lives, they will have to do it themselves and in a more sustainable way. This is not a recommendation, it’s a fact. They will have to open their eyes to the real world, hold hands and put their feet down and say: “No thanks, we’ll do it.”
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