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Contempt for Manual Work. All the conditions usually blamed for Asia's backwardness-such as lack of capital, of resources, of education-certainly exist, reports Myrdal. But far more damaging to progress are what he sees as basic Asian character traits and attitudes. In one long sentence that amounts to a Doomsday Book, he lists them as: "Low levels of work discipline, punctuality and orderliness; superstitious beliefs and irrational outlook; lack of alertness, adaptability, ambition and general readiness for change and experiment; contempt for manual work; submissiveness to authority and exploitation; low aptitude for cooperation." The last, Myrdal notes...
...concept of government service does not exist in Haiti, nor has it ever been a part of Haitian history. Since the early 19th century--when Henri Christophe, the country's first black ruler, drove 20,000 slaves to their deaths in the construction of his massive fortress, the Citadel, high in the mountains over Cap Haitien--the government has existed for its own benefit. It simply does not do things for the people. It does not build highways or schools or hospitals; it does not try to improve agricultural methods or encourage industry; it does not give care...
...agricultural skill, the missionary work is valuable. But missionaries have an ugly fondness for concentrating more on converting the people than on helping them. With what joy, they say, are the natives discovering that Baptism is right and voodoo is wrong, that the great god Yahweh does, in fact, exist...
...doesn't even take the trouble to pretend he's thinking. Roosevelt and Kennedy were masks over the real face of America. Johnson is the very portrait of America. He reveals the country to us as it is, rough and raw. If he didn't exist, we'd have to invent...
ITALIANS, EVEN in America, are capable and do exist in real communities where they do have relations with other people as something else than as roles in a large system. Of course, in giving up this idea of community Americans have gained higher material wealth...