And he says another myth is that drivers in the Majority World are more careless and cause more accidents than those in rich countries. Figures suggest that Majority World countries are ten to a hundred times more dangerous than those in the West. But the standard index of accident risk is the number of deaths per thousand vehicles. The greater proportion of people using roads in the South explains why the figures are higher, Mohan explains. In Delhi car occupants are little more at risk than they are in the US, and it is safer to be a motorcyclist in Delhi than in a city in the US, he points out.
Westerners think that life is cheap here.
Road safety is a big issue,' says Mohan. In Delhi last month the authorities suspended the licence of a major bus operator because of public anger about speeding vehicles. Counting the cost Years of racism and abuse are taking their toll on young native Canadians, says Hugh Baker, head of the Native Courtworker and Counselling Association of British Columbia. Young native Canadians have higher rates of alcohol and drug abuse, unemployment and criminal activity than other Canadians. Residential schools, which took aboriginal children to be 'assimilated' through Government care, are being called to account for problems many native youth face.