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
20
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
Actually,though,America,the"landofimmigrants",hasalwayshadpeopleofmanydifferentnationalitiesandlanguages.The19
Ithinkwemustmakeimportantdecisionssoon.Weneedtodecidehowtodevelopournaturalresourcesandmineralwealthwithout
A、Becausetheytrydangerousactstocatchpeople’sattention.B、Becausetheyshoutandyellsotheirvoicesbecomeshoarse.C、B
A、BillGatesisrichbecausehedidn’tfinishhisundergraduatestudy.B、BillGatestellsusthatinordertobecomerich,onem
A、Itistooheavy.B、Itisratherexpensive.C、Ithasnoair-conditioning.D、Itismadeofaspecialmetal.B
Ingeneral,oursocietyisbecomingoneofgiantenterprisesdirectedbyabureaucraticmanagementinwhichmanbecomesasmall
Ingeneral,oursocietyisbecomingoneofgiantenterprisesdirectedbyabureaucraticmanagementinwhichmanbecomesasmall
A、Becauseshewantstochecktheprices.B、BecauseshewantstoseeifthemenuisinFrench.C、Becausesheisinahurrytoeat
Ifyouhaveeverwonderedjusthowharditisforkidsfrombrokenneighborhoodstoavoidprison,aglanceatdatacompiledbyt
随机试题
胸小肌将腋动脉分为三段,第一段发出______、__________,第二段发出____________,第三段发出_________、_________和_________。
识读φ25F8的含义。
调查者根据调查目的的要求所设计的,由一系列问题、说明、备选答案组成的调查项目表格叫作()
合并脊髓损伤的脊柱骨折多发生在
A.小半夏汤B.苏子降气汤C.旋覆代赭汤D.橘皮竹茹汤E.丁香柿蒂汤具有化痰散饮,和胃降逆功效的方剂是
公示催告程序中的利害关系人在公示催告期间向人民法院申报权利的,人民法院应当裁定终结公示催告程序。利害关系人在申报期届满后,判决作出之前申报权利的,人民法院应如何处理?
甲欲杀乙,将乙打得昏迷之后突然良心发现赶紧送乙去医院,医生消炎药药物剂量稍缺导致乙伤口感染死亡;丙因琐事与丁发生口角,将打成轻伤的丁送往医院,医生开成相反作用的药物导致丁死亡,下列哪一项的评价是正确的?()
以企业为主体进行内源筹资的优势有()。
求助者一般资料:敏儿,23岁,女性,公司职员。求助者主诉:半个月以前在办公室里晕倒过几次,担心会经常晕倒,所以就请假一直呆在家里。去过医院检查没有任何躯体疾病,父母担心女儿会有心理问题,就带来做心理咨询。求助者家庭背景:求助者父母都是农
OneoftheexecutivesgatheredattheAspenInstituteforaday-longleadershipworkshopusingtheworksofShakespearewasdi
最新回复
(
0
)