I guess I strongly feel that we cannot pretend that the Third World is not part of our world. We cannot say 'OK, there's that problem over there, let's just close our eyes' - we cannot do that.
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As a Third World citizen, I always feel that I need to express my point of view. Sometimes the points of view of Third World countries are never expressed. We don't have that possibility, sometimes, to spread what we feel and how we see things.
We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions.
After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.
I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World.
What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.
I don't consider the first-world concerns any less important than the third-world ones.
I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff that we've all got to climb.
We're like a Third World country when it comes to some of our election practices.
And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused.
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