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We may admit it or not, but we have gradually become intellectual parasites of the West. Most of the field work in the Third World countries is undertaken by western countries and the scholars of the Third World depend on them without suspecting the intent of the authors, their selection and presentation of data and even conclusions drawn. In our haste to “CATCH UP WITH THE WEST,” we did not learn from the West, but emulated it, and in our desperation became its shadows – neither equal, nor different nor self-sustaining. Information in possession of the West is a tool for dominating the rest of the world, rather than understanding it. In ideal epistemological estimation, western literati is more ill-informed and indoctrinated than we ourselves are.
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