Friday, February 04, 2005

James Murray: Provide aid, not ideology

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12147336%255E7583,00.html

[The Australian] February 5, 2005--One elderly Norwegian Lutheran pastor, resident in Ethiopia for decades, eventually found the vocal hype too much to endure. "I think you have to live with the people and not just impose your views on them," he commented. "Their culture has to be assimilated. Their religious faith recognised. Their ignorance, patiently educated to find better ways of farming. But if you just rush in and dictate, you will only produce resentment."

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