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The OP hasn't defined what he/she means by backwards, so I will call the liberal progressive mentality backwards based on a reading of history.
What, for example, the Old Order Amish lack in technological progress and personal freedom (read: any excuse to be as morally obnoxious as possible), they are light years ahead in values that are severely found wanting in our divisive, terminally declining culture.
As someone who spent about half of my life in Brazil and the other half here in the USA, I have to say, the Northern part of Brazil is incredibly backwards, I am talking about states like Para, Roraima, Rondonia and Acre.
You still have a lot of conflict between Native Brazilians(Indians), farmers and gold miners. Some of the miners illegally invade Indian reservations to mine on their lands, you still have a lot of land squatters and people who illegally cut timber on private land and Indian reservations.
Law enforcement is very inefficient in these places due to large and sparsely populated areas, so people still handle their rivalries like in the old days, if you **** some people off, they may put a hit on you. Not much different than the American West in the late 1800's
In answer to the original question, in my experience I'd have say parts of the Ozarks in Missouri and Arkansas and parts of the American south--mostly isolated rural communities. I used to travel through those parts as part of my job. Internationally, I'd say rural Dominican Republic. I suspect these places are modernizing somewhat. Some homes will not have safe water or proper sewer or sanitary conditions but everyone will have a cell phone.
Canada and middle America feel stuck in time, yes people have rights and internet and big cars and so on, but socially people are in the middle ages.... it feels so bizarre and isolated to be in oklahoma or anywhere in canada outside montreal or toronto.
you see no one on the street, everyone drives, life revolves around jobs and shopping malls and anything that is not from there always stands out
Canada and middle America feel stuck in time, yes people have rights and internet and big cars and so on, but socially people are in the middle ages.... it feels so bizarre and isolated to be in oklahoma or anywhere in canada outside montreal or toronto.
you see no one on the street, everyone drives, life revolves around jobs and shopping malls and anything that is not from there always stands out
I know... just like the Middle Ages: everybody driving around in cars and going to the mall!
its relative, to me living in some suburban city in the middle of nowhere with the shopping mall as the main cultural/entertainment option is kinda of backwards
i am sure there more backwards places but from what I've been to these are the ones that come to my mind
The OP hasn't defined what he/she means by backwards, so I will call the liberal progressive mentality backwards based on a reading of history.
What, for example, the Old Order Amish lack in technological progress and personal freedom (read: any excuse to be as morally obnoxious as possible), they are light years ahead in values that are severely found wanting in our divisive, terminally declining culture.
"When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic” – Dresden James
Liberalism is as good a proof you can get that all change is not progress.
Well first you will have to defined backwards. Are we talking about pockets of countries, certain backwaters, or are we talking about the federal laws of the land and overall progressiveness of a country.
If it's the later, the US has struggled and has much more opposition to progressive matters.
Ratification of the ERA.
Federal laws protecting gays.
Where in Canada these things are a done deal.
Is the US on a global scale backwards? Of course not.
I just think that most western democracies are moving in a similar direction (at differing speeds) on most issues when it comes to laws and rights.
If you pick one (usually one that is dearer to your heart - gay rights for you for example) then it's easy to label one place as more backward.
For example, abortion is not criminalized in Canada but it is quite difficult to access the service in most of Atlantic Canada, and Canada is the only western country I think to not have authorized the use of the RU-486 pill, whereas it's legal even in the U.S. and has been for some time.
"When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic” – Dresden James
Liberalism is as good a proof you can get that all change is not progress.
I agree but you can hardly call liberalism "well packaged". Someone would either have to be young (with a bad upbringing) or stupid, or both, to not see that it's playing the usual game of 90% good 10% lethal poison admixture. Liberals are inclined knee-jerk dismiss anyone who disagrees with them as either bigoted or extremist which means that these people are often predisposed to black and white thinking.
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