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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:30 PM Original message |
Ever seen real Third World poverty? How do you get it off your mind? |
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thereismore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:34 PM Response to Original message |
1. I think about it often. Meanwhile, American kids throw away "crust" |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:34 PM Response to Original message |
2. Yes, I've seen true poverty in other countries. It's very distressing. |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:36 PM Response to Original message |
3. I remember them every time I start to feel sorry for myself for how "poor" I am. |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:38 PM Response to Original message |
4. Forgetting about it is not what you want to do. |
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cbayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:38 PM Response to Original message |
5. The problem is that most Americans have never and will never see it. |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:38 PM Response to Original message |
6. I think you really have to live with them to understand |
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Douglas Carpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 02:51 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. I live part of the year of the Philippines which is certainly quite poor by western standards |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:48 PM Response to Original message |
7. I've found that people living in the most horrible conditions |
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mrs_p (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 04:03 PM Response to Reply #7 |
17. capacity of joy |
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Skidmore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:52 PM Response to Original message |
8. You never get it off your mind. |
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Hydra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 02:37 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Thank you for saying that |
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librechik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:55 PM Response to Original message |
9. can't--always in the back of my mind |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:57 PM Response to Original message |
10. Go live there for a few years, then get back to us on whether you want to come back here!! |
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tismyself (501 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
12. You don't |
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Snotcicles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 03:07 PM Response to Original message |
14. Kevin Carters 1994 Pulitzer Prize winner still haunts me. nt |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 03:17 PM Response to Original message |
15. I have and I've never got it out of my mind, however, I see it |
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mrs_p (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 04:01 PM Response to Original message |
16. yes, i have |
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aikoaiko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 04:11 PM Response to Original message |
18. The garbage gleamers always get to me. |
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