Wolverine: I'm not sure I understand why you keep referring to "horrible incidents". It has nothing to do with the conversation at hand and the example you gave was utterly irrelevant.

My experience of third world countries?

1. I spent more than a year living in Belize. Living and working from the Airport, (built on a swamp in the middle of nowhere), but spending much of my time in or over the jungle and the Mayan mountains. I conducted several anti-drug and anti-gun running operations during that time. Additionally I spent a significant amount of that time "out there" in the jungle regions sleeping on the mud floor with the same pigs and chickens the locals, (Mayans), do.

2. Over an eight month period I spent some 3 to four months in Jamaica's central region firstly providing Search & Rescue followed by disaster relief and finally with an Aid Organization.

3. A month in Tunisia gave me a view of third world countries with a different religious base but the issues and problems were somewhat identical.

So I am far from unaware of the issues, lifestyles, problems faced by both the government and the peoples of such countries.

While India might be considered a third world country New Delhi is hardly the epitomy of "backwards"...... It's a major city with all the infrastructure that goes along with it. If you get away to the more remote parts of your country you won't find the infrastructure and everything will become a little more rural and isolated. They don't have computers Wolverine, they don't even have electricity..... Modern technology to them is 20mg of penicillin provided by a field surgical team they _may_ see maybe once every year or two - ever seen that stuff work the way it is supposed to? I have, in people who have never been exposed to it against bacteria that haven't either - really unbeleivable - an 8" swollen machete gash that was oozing puss to an unswollen amber like crystalline crust over a clean wound in 48 hours...... just 20 mg per day of it.......


Back to my point. In the "normal" areas of third world countries, (away from the major cities), the society is smaller. A large village is only a couple of hundred people so it is natural that everyone knows or is related to the law enforcement if there even is any "in place", (many have roaming law enforcement that may not be seen for weeks at a time). Furthermore, communication with the outside world is negligable so their awareness of other societies and their laws outside their own community is non existent. Thus, if someone tells them they can get more money for crop A than they can for crop B it is natural, (knowing that they don't see crop A as a particularly bad thing and are unaware that the eventual consumer may be breaking a law a thousand miles away in a different culture). It's simply a more efficient use of their limited resource, (cultivatable land).

I'm pleased that I gave yourself and your classmates a good laugh. Now maybe you and they should consider completing your education by going to those regions of your country that are truly third world and seeing them for yourselves...... You'll then be able to properly appreciate how well off you are.