How can people from the 3rd world help themselves under very hard circumstances?

Question

If there are no jobs available and massive poverty and corruption in their homecountry and most developed countries have tight immigration restrictions on the rationale of limited resources and that it would take jobs away from their own people. Do 1st world countries have some sort of a moral responsibility to these 3rd world countries even if they did not make them suffer?

Answer 1

You are looking at the situation with a Euro-centric, or an American-centric, perception. You see those folks not living like you so you think their lifestyle is horrid because they don't live like us. I'm not sure they would be able to handle the intense stress and competition that our society has. After all, over 40 million citizens in the USA take anti-depressants to cope with the daily challenges of life. Those in third world countries are not faced with that kind of daily stress because their lives are simplier. All they need is food, shelter, and human bonding (love). That's want keeps them happy, and that's what keeps everyone in the first world countries happy - food, shelter, and human bonding (love).

Answer 2

I would argue that not everyone who lives in a third world country suffers under massive poverty and government corruption. Not only this but several countries offer political asylum for those escaping persecution.

I think you might also be asking in this question, "Is it morally ok for us to spend large amounts of money on things we don't "need" to survive when there are those who don't have food,water,shelter etc?" I think the answer would depend on who you ask.

Maybe we should focus not on what a 1st world country owes to a 3rd world country but acknowledging that we are humans and all of us could be doing more to help.

There are literally thousands of things you could do to help not only people but the world. Recycle. Donate time or money to a charity. Go work in an orphanage in Honduras for a year. Most importantly, do something.

Answer 3

Study up on how aid packages actually work. The IMF, World Bank and the G8 too. And colonial practices as well.

For the most part, 3rd world poverty and suffering is rooted in colonial exploitation, which took a lot of the countries' native resources and gave little back. The UK in particular was fond of just up and leaving, which created a power vacuum all too readily filled by those willing to be the most violent and corrupt.

The 1st world answer to this poverty has to been to give them aid packages. Sounds good. What most of us don't know is that this 'aid' comes with hefty strings attached. Like limits on the legislation that a sovereign government can enact to protect their own people and resources. Hugo Chavez is standing up to that, which is why his people keep voting for him and the U.S. abhors him.

We're talking about basics of life, like water rights, so you get situations where a country's water is 'owned' by a 1st world multinational corporation and the people who live there have to pay outsiders for their land's water.

How on earth does a country pull itself out of poverty under those conditions?

Answer 4

There are always two choices: beg or learn to earn by allowing the best avaikable technology, capital resources and management and trade opportunities available.. The problem is not that there are not many jobs and poverty. The problem is ignorance, lack of education, trust on cheats that promise to form Govt.s to solve all problems and control by the State on private initiative in education, technology, business, international trade and international flow of funds. Fear of the foreigners, especially the First World companies is the main problem. Removing all control on business, trade and investments by 1st World companies in third world countries is the only natural solution. All talk about sovereignty, imperialism and foreign political control are the main cause of poverty in third world countries. Dependence on all pervasive and all powerful governments is not the solution. Political nationalism is the slogan that perpetuates poverty.

Answer 5

Moral responsibility... no. Capitalistic opportunity yes. Capitalism has raised the standard of living more then anything else, just ask Russia. I don't have all the answers but I do know that there government is much more concerned with staying in power then empowering the people (wow that sounds like another country I know). The people need to change leadership... good luck

Answer 6

Start a black market. Subvert those in power. Become powerful themselves.