Science And TechnologyThe Government of Canada has built formal science and technology relationships and partnerships with both established and emerging innovation networks around the world. International partnerships are an important catalyst for science and technological innovation, as these collaborations often accelerate the pace of discovery and end in improved commercialization.

These traditional people and elite sciences are intertwined with their distinct historic cultures and worldviews. Unfortunately, modernization has homogenized the categories, lowering range of worldviews in methods similar to the destruction of biodiversity. Using contrived hegemonic classes � equivalent to science verses magic, expertise verses superstitions, trendy versus custom � European colonizers systematically exterminated or undermined local conventional science, know-how and crafts. Aside from mental conceitedness, there was a revenue motive to this � as evidenced by Britain’s conquest of Indian textile and metallurgical know-how. Many anthropologists who’ve not too long ago worked with so-called ‘primitive’ peoples have been surprised to study …

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