It's good old fashioned western colonialism brought to you by Burger King.

Burger King travels over 20,000 miles to find people who have never heard of the WHOPPER and perform the world's purest taste test.

Because what all those people really need is to become as unhealthy as the Civilized Western World(TM) at large.

Indian communities are flooded with people who want to know more about them-New Agers looking for quick spiritual enlightenment, anthropologists eager to capture "an authentic culture thought to be rapidly and inevitably disappearing,"2 and Christians eager to engage in interreligious dialogue. How one evaluates these attempts to understand and " ( Read more... )

For azad_slide's discussion:
Juice & cookies with a birth momWhen I was in Korea four years ago, I visited an agency-run home for pregnant women. The agency called it a birth mothers' home ( Read more... )

This article can be found on the web at
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060619/lalami

The Missionary Positionby LAILA LALAMI ( Read more... )

nagged from my friend's list.

Brendan O’Neill
Brad, Angelina and the rise of 'celebrity colonialism'
What gives two Hollywood actors the right to shut down an African nation so that they can have a special experience?Over the past six weeks a Western security force has effectively taken over the small African nation of Namibia. A beach resort in ( Read more... )

US to expand policy of poaching foreign nurses

According to Holly Burkhalter of Physicians for Human Rights, the provision could jeopardize efforts to control the spread of diseases such as HIV/AIDS and malaria worldwide by attracting more health workers to the U.S. from developing countries where they already are in short supply (Kaiser Daily ( Read more... )