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Such is the purpose of the Alliance for Progress of the middle-classes which the U.S. is fighting to protect and develop at least a minority who consume what the U.S. way of life has become a religion which must be accepted by all those who do not want to die by the sword - or napalm. depends on the acceptance by all so-called "free" men that the U.S. cannot survive if the rest of the world is not convinced that here we have Heaven-on-Earth. is engaged in a tremendous struggle to survive. the knowledge that the way of life they have chosen simply is not alive enough to be shared.īy now it should be evident to all America that the U.S. Perhaps this is the moment to instead bring home to the people of the U.S. Actually, they frequently wind up alleviating the damage done by money and weapons, or "seducing" the "underdeveloped" to the benefits of the world of affluence and achievement. Ideally, these people define their role as service. idealist, who turns up in every theater of the world: the teacher, the volunteer, the missionary, the community organizer, the economic developer, and the vacationing do-gooders. Next to money and guns, the third largest North American export is the U.S. The idea that every American has something to give, and at all times may, can and should give it, explains why it occurred to students that they could help Mexican peasants "develop" by spending a few months in their villages. A group like this could not have developed unless a mood in the United States had supported it - the belief that any true American must share God's blessings with his poorer fellow men. By definition, you cannot help being ultimately vacationing salesmen for the middle-class "American Way of Life," since that is really the only life you know. However, his good faith can usually be explained only by an abysmal lack of intuitive delicacy. I do have deep faith in the enormous good will of the U.S.
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I am here to tell you, if possible to convince you, and hopefully, to stop you, from pretentiously imposing yourselves on Mexicans. During our mid-service training, one of the breakout sessions had us reading a speech by Ivan Illich called " To Hell With Good Intentions" arguing that volunteer service in developing countries is terrible: