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Originally posted by Silver Cheetah:
The statistics come from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. It's an organisation that helps and advises governments all over the world on coping with the challenges that are arising as a result of globalisation. They are not just pulled out of the air - I have seem similar statistics quoted in a number of different contexts over the past couple of weeks - in fact, it was a newspaper article that got me interested. Until then, I'd taken the chest beating as gospel.
Just a small point - could you explain what you meant by the following? The syntax confused me somewhat.... And to those who seem to think that just because a country/people benefit from donations or aid, it's somehow not good anymore... uh hello! '
Once I understand it, I might be able to reply to your point. Thanks.
No worries, it wasn't directed to you. [img]smile.gif[/img] But my point is simple, just because someone or a country GIVE or AID someone or another country and it is in their best interests to do so, it does NOT make the aid/gift bad in my view. Sure you can say the giver wasn't purely unselfish or altruisitic.. but the fact of the aid or help still exists... so I'm a bit tired of hearing how bad Americans are because we 'only helped' this place or that to aid our own cause. We conceded that point ages ago. [img]smile.gif[/img]
CB