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What separates the people in the wealthy developed countries from those of the poor, Third World territories? One factor only – development. From this arise two complexes. One is an inferiority complex on the part of the peoples of the ex-colonies.

The other is a culture of superiority of those in Japan , Europe, North America and Australia who look down upon the ex-colonies as backward.

Morally, the peoples of the world are the same. It is just that we, Third World people, because of our poverty and lack of modernisation, hate ourselves; we want to have a country that is as wealthy as those from which we get aid.

The folks from the developed world visit the Third World and they see no skyscrapers. They see no Manhattan-like towers. They see no gargantuan shopping malls. They see no hotels jutting out into the skies. They see small airports; tiny botanical gardens; narrow highways, modest houses and they proclaim us as lesser mortals.

Because of our poverty, we are of a lesser value than them. Our own people become fascinated with metropolitan infrastructure, modernisation in the industrialised West, and categorise our own societies as inferior. This is exactly what V.S. Naipaul did.

Naipaul paid no attention to centuries of colonialism and the cruel exploitation of the raw materials of the colonies. Naipaul, who was concerned more with writing fiction, hardly had any time to devote to a statistical study of world trade. Naipaul viewed the world in simplistic terms bordering of psychic-self hate.

He called India an area of darkness. He referred to West Indians as mimic men. He obfuscated in his mind, the injustices that were meted out by the Americans to the native Indians.

He was conveniently unaware of the lands that were forcibly taken from Mexico . He didn’t find it worthwhile to study what slavery did to the new world. He probably still doesn’t understand that the Holocaust is something mankind is yet to come to grips with. The Holocaust is still the greatest reminder that Arthur Koestler may be right that human beings are worst than the lower animals.

The Holocaust is something that has actually occurred but to imagine it is beyond imagination. The Holocaust was committed by the most developed country in the first half of the 20th century, Germany .

When there was communism, the people of the Third World saw the world through lenses shaped by Mrs. Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and company. The West was generous and kind. In Guyana , students gathered in large numbers to listen to music and read books at the John F. Kennedy Library. In other West Indian territories, the British Council performed a similar role.

Then communism melted like when a housewife puts butter in the frying pan. While the people of East Germany removed the Berlin wall, the Americans thanked those who used the library, donated the books to the Guyanese people and closed the John F. Kennedy Library. Communism had fallen; there was no longer any need for a cultural centre in Georgetown .

Globalisation has replaced communism and the people of the Eastern Caribbean have seen how cruel the world is. The Sugar Protocol is coming to an end, and the sugar growers of Europe have been cushioned but not those in the Caribbean . The tiny islands of CARICOM occupied just seven percent of the European banana market.

Their bananas were given a guaranteed price but some American multinationals, of which the annual income of one of them dwarfs that of the combined islands, litigated against these islands in the WTO and won.

One wonders what Edward Seaga must be thinking when he placed Jamaica right in the laps of Mrs. Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.

The states of the Third World may be poor, but the people of these countries must realise that the difference between the first World and the Third World is money and nothing else.

The visitors to Guyana and the Caribbean , and other poor under-developed countries frown upon the dirty streets, the slow service at the hotels, the rundown infrastructure in our schools and the animal drawn vehicles on our roads. And they draw the conclusion that we are an inferior people. They use economic criteria to judge us.

What about morality?

The most bizarre sexual orgy in human history has taken place in France . If this was in the Third World , we would have been called savages. Sixty-five people were charged with the most nauseating forms of group sex involving babies and children, the youngest being six months, the oldest being 12 years.

Three years ago most of them were jailed for long periods. What was unbearable to listen to, was the news that the children belonged to those who were charged and that they participated in the orgies with their own children.

In some cases, the children were traded for cigarettes or a light snack.

This happened in one of the world’s top countries. God help us if this was in the Caribbean .

I have a policy of not speaking to any journalist from the British press because of the condescending perceptions they have of poor states. These journalists are simply racist people who think their societies are of superior blood. When they came to cover the island of Wakenaam , the birth place of Baroness Amos, they painted the island as alligator infested. That was a disgusting lie.

I have written enough about Martin Gough.

The English football fans and a number of their star players are hooligans. No country should allow English football fans in.

They are uncouth people. Some of the biggest names in the English celebrity world are footballers but these are people who are ill-mannered as any uneducated 17-year-old jailbird. All they have is money but no class.

If our cricketers, when in England , misbehave we would not hear the end of it in the British press. A former Australian high-profile cricketer, later turned commentator, David Hookes, was beaten to death in a night club in his own country.

It was revealed by the London Observer that the British Government earlier this year had agreed to relax so that aspects of their money-laundering laws could accommodate American casino investors. Imagine if Guyana had done that.

Take a good look at Australian cricketers. Many of them are close to being in the same league of ill-mannered English footballers. They have introduced aggression in cricket. But we don’t read about their behaviour in the English press.

If the West Indian team does what the Australians do on the field, we would be constantly derided by the British media. When it comes to the Japanese, the contempt for the non-white world is hardly hidden.

A former Japanese Prime Minister once said that America is becoming lazy because it has too many Hispanics and Blacks. He had to apologise but it showed the way Japanese ruling class feels about non-white nations.

We in the Third World have to stop hating ourselves. The people in the developed world are richer than us, not better than us.