We have got to stop thinking that "primitive" cultures are only primitive because the West won't share modern technology with them, and they are really very eager to live the way we do.

The truth is, these cultures don't WANT modern technology and western ways. They have their own ways and it's ended up in a literal bloody disaster every time the West has tried to help them.

They Don't Want Us Changing Them and We've Got to Stop Trying.

Here's why it never works:

If your ancestors evolved in sub-Saharan Africa, or in an island paradise, food literally swims at your feet and falls off the trees onto your head. You don't have to work very hard to get it. You don't need a lot in the way of shelter, either; just something to keep the rain off and the animals out. For anything big like a major storm, head to the nearest cave for a while and you'll be fine.

It's actually counterproductive to work hard messing with your environment when it's providing for you just fine as it is. It works better to use patience, live more slowly, and let the food come to you. That is the concept of "island time" or "Africa time" and it continues in those places today.

But if your family evolved in the Northern Hemisphere, you had to deal with cold and ice and snow and marked seasonal changes. You had to control your environment so it wouldn't kill you, and that meant far more work to get food and build shelter and keep warm. It would have been counterproductive to live life in the slow lane, because you'd starve or freeze before the first year was over.

But this did lead to a drive to work hard and to an increased ability to invent things and find solutions to problems. That is the concept of the "work ethic" and explains a lot about why the civilized/"first" world is populated the way it is.

It also explains why some groups are so disruptive when they move into a largely first-world neighborhood. In an island-time or Africa-time environment, it doesn't matter if you stay up playing your bongos all night. You don't have to work much, so you can sleep when you feel like it.

But in a first-world place, you have got to be able to sleep at night because there's too much work waiting for you at the crack of dawn the next day.

All of this is a root cause of the screaming arguments, huge culture clash and "racism" between these two groups everywhere you look, and why neither group understands the other.

And I have to say that those of us who live and thrive on first-world time really do not have the right to go to a place where folks live on island time and try to force them into living like first-worlders.

If people are happy and content living that way, then leave them to it. We can offer to let some of their younger ones attend school in the first-world if they want to, and we can offer on-site education regarding things like medicine and construction if they want it.

But if they don't - leave them to it and let them live the way they want, even if it seems destructive, lazy and foolish to us.

It's almost like separate cultures evolved for a reason and there is nothing good that comes from forcing them together.