check out the oct 4 issue of time magazine for even more photos. having been tracking this issue in the ny times since the oct 1st un deadline was up, i must admit that, in this instance, a picture really does speak volumes more than the words do.
what is also interesting to note is that beyond the tribal wars in darfur between the muslims and native blacks, there is a genocidal phenomenon between the northern muslims and the southern christians that has potentially exponential consequences to that of darfur alone.
i always feel a certain level of inexcusable ignorance where africa is concerned. it does reach the direction, intentional nature of apathy but i find that the cultural gap is so overwhelming and the politics are so unstable that it is very difficult to have the compassion such situations should invoke of me.
thank you for this. it gave me the opportunity to reconsider something that has been on my mind lately and articulate those thoughts.
my point is that i think i should care a lot more than i should. it's not that i don't care, it's that i don't care enough. their plight is devestating yet my words of discussion come out sounding forced and artificial. i should care - and i do - but not as much as the desperation of the situation suggests i should. does that make more sense?
ps that whole paragraph makes no sense. i meant to say "it doesn't reach the direct, intentional nature of apathy but i find that the cultural gap is so overwhelming and the politics are so unstable that it is very difficult to have the compassion such situations should invoke of me."
the saddest ever... sometimes i can't even read the stories about what goes on sudan because it will just break my heart and i'll start crying on the subway or at school. :( yeah i wish gwb would assert his "conservative compassionism" towards these people. oh wait... there's nothing there of value! no oil = no help!
Every now and then when i hear about the kind of savage insanity that goes on in that part of the world,it makes me pretty damn grateful to live where I live in the society have been raised in. While America has its share of problems the cultures of that region are barbaric and looking at those pictures,who takes the brunt of it.Any culture that still partakes in tribal or religious warfare is a culture that sets humanity back hundreds and thousands of years.
i agree to an extent. i'm not sure how to formulate a response to the last part of what you said. but first off, i agree that when realizing the intense suffering that part of the world goes through- it does make you grateful to live here. we do have our fair share of fucked up policies and leaders, but at least there aren't mass genocides taking place
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what is also interesting to note is that beyond the tribal wars in darfur between the muslims and native blacks, there is a genocidal phenomenon between the northern muslims and the southern christians that has potentially exponential consequences to that of darfur alone.
i always feel a certain level of inexcusable ignorance where africa is concerned. it does reach the direction, intentional nature of apathy but i find that the cultural gap is so overwhelming and the politics are so unstable that it is very difficult to have the compassion such situations should invoke of me.
thank you for this. it gave me the opportunity to reconsider something that has been on my mind lately and articulate those thoughts.
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i hope you aren't trying to say what i think you are there.
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my point is that i think i should care a lot more than i should. it's not that i don't care, it's that i don't care enough. their plight is devestating yet my words of discussion come out sounding forced and artificial. i should care - and i do - but not as much as the desperation of the situation suggests i should. does that make more sense?
ps that whole paragraph makes no sense. i meant to say "it doesn't reach the direct, intentional nature of apathy but i find that the cultural gap is so overwhelming and the politics are so unstable that it is very difficult to have the compassion such situations should invoke of me."
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While America has its share of problems the cultures of that region are barbaric and looking at those pictures,who takes the brunt of it.Any culture that still partakes in tribal or religious warfare is a culture that sets humanity back hundreds and thousands of years.
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