This movie was shown to me through the Social Anthropological Society of the Uni. I recommend it to anyone interested in people and the world change to becoming global rather than local.
The film is a long discussion between anthropologists and people from around the world discussing what it means for a country to enter in to the global market and Western society. Often criticizing the USA's past, the movie looks into how the Western culture has taken over and how it influences the countries it enters. It presents two views often seen by people. The first is that Westernization of a culture is good as it brings both income and development into a country. The second is that Westernization harms the life that was there and steady. The movie provides an example of how one views the world and what is actually happening. The example is similar to what follows.
If you were told that 20,000 people just got jobs, household income increased by 40% , and universities were opening up in a country you would probably think these are great things happening to a country. However, as the movie points out, this means that now many of the country's people are now unemployed and in poverty. Many of the people are being told they're failures and having to find poor paying job even though hey spent a lot of money on a degree. More are going away from their homes to get a degree rather then help their families. Included in the Western success is terror as now many will commit suicide from the pressure and many will lose their land. What we see as good isn't always good for everyone. Poverty didn't exist until the rich were made and were making the standards.
Watch the film. Schooling the World: The White Man's Last Burden
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