What is the third world, and why are some countries developing while others claim to be developed?
This was the question we need to have in our minds for this challenge.
We started this challenge with a little quiz. The questions were about diseases, other countries,etc . The answers were mulitplechose and my result was 3/8 what a found very low. I thought i had more knowledge over some things in the world. But when we discussed it in my group i discovered that the most students had low scores. After the quiz we learned about the perspective on discourse of the Frenchmen Foucault's. He was really interested in the way we descend in language and what influences that has on our day live. Then we discussed about discourses in th Mongolian case. This text was about the interesting things Jhonny discovered in Mongolian classes while he was there. Examples of discourses can be: straight/gay, huts/houses, civil war/ tribal war,... .
Then we talked about what a developing country was. It can develop on macro-level but a country can also develop on micro-level. It is a term who is mostaly used for a country with a low level of material well-being. Since no single defenition of the term developed country is recongnized internationaly, the levels of development may variate widely whitin so-caled develloping countries. Some develloping countrys has a high standart of living or education,... .
Then Johny showed us a book of Carl linne. The book describes 4 cultures: European, Asian, African and American culture. But wat was interesting is that only the European culture was formulated in a positive way out of a positive view from the writer because he was European by himself. That was also the conclusion out of this book: discourses dominate the way we see the world.
What i found interesting by myself,that it's true that you always compare your home cltur to another culture and mostly you find you're culture the best cause you are used and developed with this culture. I see it by myself here in Denmark.r example the food. I really miss the Belgian fries and when i go to the shop to by me food i would always take the food I'm used to eat in Belgium although i discovered 2 weeks ago that they have very nice pastry in Denmark but i was afraid to try it.
