So I was watching American Idol the other night (Subtle way of saying, I have TVeeeeeeee, wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! ) and it was "Idol gives back" night. The same old story - white dudes go to Africa, are appalled by the impoverished/hungry/sick people there, come back, make a nice montage of it, with keane music as background, show it to other white dudes, who for some reason are absolutely shocked by it all, like its all news to them, then they all sing (or sway to) "Heal the world, make it a better place", give money, shed some tears and will go back home to their f****ed up white ways.
No asks why Ayf-Freeka (you gotta say it like they do Man! and notice how its not country specific, like kenya, zambia etc, its Ayf-Freeka, one big bloody convenient bracket), a region that has abundant mineral wealth (and by minerals we are talking gold, diamonds, platinum, iron, all the things thats "Hot" right now) is so freaking poor. Someone obviously has been filching all of that, ain't it? Somebody has been taking all of that and in return, has been supplying weapons, backing military dictators, engineering civil wars and ignoring genocides
You want to do something for Ayf-Freeka? Oust people like Mugabe, get rid of the government in Sudan, do something about the Darfur situation, but no its "Heal the world" on a crappy singing contest.
Grow Up!
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Amen to that!
Have you watched Blood Diamond? Makes some effort to put the 'mineral' paradox in perspective, I thought...
hey shanks howz it goin there?? - gowda
Amrita: Absolutely
Suhas : Where do you think the title come from, but what do you mean by the Mineral paradox?
Gowday: You callous bastard! you ask me after 2 months on how I'm doing?
And what did that rant achieve? How did it help the world? And how is it better to write a rant about the ways of the 'whites' when the ways of the 'non-whites' aren'tany better? Is good ol' India is any less exploitative/callous/hypocritical?
And how is the 'white way' worse than the Indian 'pseud' way?
Sheesh...
And what did that rant achieve? How did it help the world? And how is it better to write a rant about the ways of the 'whites' when the ways of the 'non-whites' aren'tany better? Is good ol' India is any less exploitative/callous/hypocritical?
And how is the 'white way' worse than the Indian 'pseud' way?
Sheesh...
sorry, hadn't noticed the title when i posted the comment, my bad :) the paradox is exactly what you said in the post..", a region that has abundant mineral wealth..is so freaking poor"
Anon: Read it from a colonial perspective. India did not colonize any country and exploit it bare of all its resources. Look all I'm trying to say is that the rich white countries have the clout to really do something and more often than not they don't end up doing it because they have their own interests at heart
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