Culture....Why?

Watch this TED video of Hans Rosling looking at statistics of global society, looking at development and poverty. I was knocked off my chair by what he said towards the very end about the dimensions of development...Looking at any country's goals and the means they use to acheive their goals. He listed

human rights,
environment,
governance,
economic growth,
education,
health and
culture.

He prioritized them like this as important means to reach a society's goal:
First: economic growth
even at 2nd and 3rd place were governance and education
4th and 5th were the environment and health
last were human rights and culture.

Then he ranked them to show priority as a goal:
Last as an actual goal was economic growth, it's not really a goal at all.
then came governance and education,
4th and 3rd were environment and health
2nd was human rights and
the top goal was culture because that is what brings JOY TO LIFE.


http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/hans_rosling_reveals_new_insights_on_poverty.html