INTS 2380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Intercultural Competence, Neoliberalism, European Colonialism
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In development, important part is the end point that a society gets to, not how those goals are achieved (pg. 1: what is (cid:498)modern(cid:499) changes over time (cid:523)pg. 2(cid:524: modernity: can be development and progress, while for others can be eradication of cultural practices, destruction of natural environments, and a decline in quality of life (pg. 3: the use of wealth measure to represent development is regarded as, all relative (pg. 9-11) appropriate because it is assumed that with greater wealth come other benefits such as improved health, education and quality of life (pg. 30: stressed diversity in social, spatial, and temporal issues, 3rd world women example not all the same takes away from their experiences, postcolonial approaches (pg. 30: disrupt ways of thinking based on northern assumptions, post-development (pg. 31: ex: before outsiders came into colombia, there was no such thing as poverty, so there was no need for development.