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I am not familiar with the ways in which to respond to you in this forum so I will attempt it here. Subsistence farming and extreme poverty are not necessarily (nor even usually) correlated, as the term 'subsistence' explicates an ability to at least survive, not to mention thrive with local resources. The definition of poverty requires an inability to provide food, water, and shelter for an individual or a community ( http://www.poverty.ac.uk/definitions-poverty/absolute-and-overall-poverty ) --just because a group is not a part of monetary exchange does not mean they do not have the ability to acquire these resources. Believing so is imperialistic and xenophobic. So it is absolutely not neutral to include this connection when speaking of East Timor without further proof that these communities cannot provide these resources for themselves (the New York Times article referenced only refers to monetary poverty).

June 2018
Hello, I'm RileyBugz. Wikipedia is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view. Your recent edit to East Timor seemed less than neutral to me, so I removed it for now. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. RileyBugz 私に叫ぼう私の編集 21:59, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
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