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Vanessa Mason
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Indigenous practices in conflict with development
July 22, 2008 - 01:05 PM
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What do you think is the right way to approach indigenous cultural practices that are in conflict with development goals? Should public opinion always side with development or with the lives of indigenous people?
Here are some examples:
- Female genital circumciscion
- Preserving indigenous land ownership rights in the face of economic pressure for private ownership
- Hunting species as a cultural practice or food source that may be endangered
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aya abdelrahim
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Re: Indigenous practices in conflict with development
July 25, 2008 - 03:48 PM
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What do you think is the right way to approach indigenous cultural practices that are in conflict with development goals?
if you mean the indigenous practices that are being held by ordinary people , such as the female circumcision , so i think that we can work on increasing the cultural , social and religious awarness and increase the stimulation process using diffrent effective means such as media , the public openion can work in parallel with the media as well , also responsible people have to work on the same goal so as to raise such development process to its way of achievement , what i meant by responsible people those who are leading whatever kind of leading ( leading organization , leading a certain project or even leading a whole country ) , but what if those leaders themselves comit such practices that are in conflict with the development goal ???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! , such as occupations , squat , forestallation.....etc
it bring us to a diffrent problem that doesn't need awarness but need a deterrent..
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Re: Indigenous practices in conflict with development
August 2, 2008 - 03:00 PM
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I do think that awareness is a crucial part of attempting to change cultural practices. I do wonder how right it is for an external institution to come into a cultural group and pass judgement on their practices. Relying on mainstream media such as radio and newspapers becomes difficult if you are looking at indigenous groups that live in rural areas that may not have access to media. They also may reject mainstream media because they see it as not belonging to part of their culture.
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Re: Indigenous practices in conflict with development
August 9, 2008 - 05:27 PM
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mmmm , i'm wondering about those people who lives in such rural areas and do not access to the media , from where do they get their knowlagement and infromations ?? , is it often from heritant stuff and old stories and tales ?? or there are other sources that we don't knnow ?
any way , if it is through old books , stories , heritant and such stuff so i have to admit that it would be such a difficult task to just get in and irrupt their believes , but it may succeed if we worked on the very new generation ( kids and children ) and find a way to bring them awarness , children have the ability to learn what they don't know and accept what they have been learned , so if the education process is against this indigenous paractices the kid would be raised up knowing that it is not the right thing to do....and so on .
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Re: Indigenous practices in conflict with development
August 22, 2008 - 08:35 PM
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I am under the opinion that the government should always side with the indigenous people. It is unfair for us to use "modern" judgment against practices that have been around for generations.
Even if they are doing horrible things (genital mutilation, hunting an endangered species), I believe we should be able to overlook that and understand that they just do not think like we do.
There are even some tribes that have not yet seen modern humans. If we contact these tribes, we risk decimating the entire populace with disease.
These people are not "primitive" they just know a lifestyle that is very different from our own. Never should we destroy their way of life for the sake of modernization and development
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