首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
A、think their culture is being destroyed B、feel it is a pity to lose the paradise C、have different ideas from the foreigners D、a
A、think their culture is being destroyed B、feel it is a pity to lose the paradise C、have different ideas from the foreigners D、a
admin
2010-03-25
43
问题
An interview with Helena Norberg-Hodge, about her work in a pristine, ancient Himalayan culture as it faced the siren song of western-style development. Share International US editor Monte Leach spoke with Norberg-Hodge on her recent visit to the San Francisco Bay Area.
Share International: How did you first get involved with helping to preserve the Ladakhi culture?
Helena Norberg-Hodge: I trekked into remote valleys and spoke to Ladakhi people everywhere. I saw quite a remarkable self-reliant wealth and above all an amazing self-esteem of people who were models of what it means to feel completely secure in their own identity and place. They seemed to be the most open, happy and humble people. And they told me they had never known hunger. They had a standard of living much higher than I would have expected, none of it from so-called progress.
SI: How did their way of life begin to be undermined?
HNH: The Indian Government had a territorial dispute with the Chinese, and decided to develop this area as a way of ensuring that it became a closer part of India. Their approach to development was based on a Western model which had nothing to do with local knowledge and resources. This included pushing chemical fertilizers and pesticides, including DDT and other outlawed pesticides. It meant subsidizing white rice and white sugar from the outside. These subsidies for imported food were destroying local food production, and creating a total dependence on imports. It was making the region very vulnerable. Subsidized fossil fuels like kerosene and coal being brought in to heat houses also led to subsidized transport. It meant that roads the government was building were actually destroying the local economy.
Tourism also became part of the Indian Government’ s plan to develop the area. Nearly every foreigner who came there was just amazed by how peaceful, happy and beautiful the place and people were. The foreigners would say: "Oh, what a paradise. What a pity it has to be destroyed." When I heard this for something like the 100th time, something within me snapped. I was closely involved with the local people, and I knew not a single one of them thought of this as destruction. Not a single local person ever said: "Whit a pity we have to be destroyed." I realized the foreigners had seen that in the rest of the world this type of economic growth could be very destructive. I also realized the local people knew nothing about it. Around that time I read a book called Small is Beautiful. It gave me the conviction that things could be done differently and meeting the outside world didn’ t have to mean destruction.
I started talking to the local people about what development had meant in other parts of the world. I realized they were getting a completely wrong view of what life was like in the West. They were saying: "My God, you must be incredibly wealthy." They were getting an impression that we never need to work, that we have infinite wealth and leisure. It is not that they were unintelligent, but they had limited information about this other world.
That led me to realize that I could do work which would provide more accurate information. My goal was not to tell the Ladakhis what to do, not even to tell them that they should stay exactly the way they were, but to provide as much information as possible on what life is really like in the West. That included information on our problems of pollution, unemployment, and poverty, and that a lot of the poverty in the so-called Third World was due to our wealth in the developed world. I also wanted to show that many Westerners who ended up a part of this system were straggling in their own country to find a more environmentally and socially equitable way of living. I gave examples that some people were using solar energy and growing food organically, and implementing a range of more sustainable and equitable alternatives.
SI: What kind of response did you get from the Ladakhis?
HNH: On the whole the information was received with great interest and appreciation. The end result was that the message showed them they need not feel ashamed about who they were, or think they were backward or primitive. There were also modernized young men who for a while thought this approach would hold them back, but they have on the whole now changed. I think the support now for this work is tremendous, and growing all the time in Ladakh.
选项
A、think their culture is being destroyed
B、feel it is a pity to lose the paradise
C、have different ideas from the foreigners
D、are fully aware of the consequences
答案
C
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/BIqO777K
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
Actually,though,America,the"landofimmigrants",hasalwayshadpeopleofmanydifferentnationalitiesandlanguages.The19
Withbighandbagsbecomingakeyfashionaccessoryforworkingwomen,healthexpertsarewarningtheycanalsobecomeakeyheal
Middle-classteenagersarelessintelligentthanagenerationagoduetothedumbingdownofyouthcultureandschooltests,an
A、Differentapproachestocopingwithstress.B、Variouscausesforserioushealthproblems.C、Therelationshipbetweenstressan
A、BillGatesisrichbecausehedidn’tfinishhisundergraduatestudy.B、BillGatestellsusthatinordertobecomerich,onem
A、Nidiadidn’texercisemuch.B、Nidiawasnotagoodbadmintonplayer.C、Nidiahurtherselfbecauseshecouldn’tplaybadminton.
A、Becauseshewantstochecktheprices.B、BecauseshewantstoseeifthemenuisinFrench.C、Becausesheisinahurrytoeat
Ifyouhaveeverwonderedjusthowharditisforkidsfrombrokenneighborhoodstoavoidprison,aglanceatdatacompiledbyt
随机试题
十七大报告指出科学发展观的确立依据是()。
深部脓肿的特点是()
卵圆孔未闭或重开,目前检测率最高的超声技术为
患者,男,31岁。颈项部皮肤增厚,干燥,瘙痒较剧,情绪波动时,瘙痒随之加剧,部分皮肤因反复搔抓形成苔藓样变化。其诊断是
临床出现自汗多尿,是气的哪一种功能减退的表现
A、决明子B、夏枯草C、龙胆草D、野菊花E、青黛既能清肝热,又能润肠通便的药物是()
在业务外包过程中,由于供应商的过错造成供应中断,引起银行部分支付业务无法正常进行而造成严重损失。此事件对应的操作风险成因是()。
在中国佛教中,四大菩萨是指()。
【长征健儿】兰州大学2003年中国古代史真题
Tomhadbeeninvitedtotheeveningpartybut______onthegroundsthathewastoobusy.
最新回复
(
0
)