She had better be hot to make up for the retardation (probably has the personality of a crayon). I would have tried to screw with them more and really make an ass of them, but that's just me.
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What? culturally ignorant morons who understand nothing about how the world works? I live in America! Everyone I know who was born here(except my anthropology teacher) fits this description including me. Also, no, she is a ditsy moron. Besides that, it would be impossible to convince her of anything so why bother to argue?
Well there's a decent cure for idiocy, and I don't know about Canada, but in the Us carrying it is legal...Tasachan said:So, we were watching a movie in class about how corporations are evil, they exploit people and their only goal is to make as much money as possible. (Yeah, we watch sweet movies like that all the time in this class!)
Anyways, afterwards I was walking in the hall behind someone that had just come out of the same class. She and her friends were carrying fancy Gucci/Chanel purses, nice jewelry, quality shoes - you know the type. And they were saying, to paraphrase:
'Its good that we only pay people in small countries like $1 or $2 a day, because that is all they need. Rice and canned goods cost like 15 cents there, so its no big deal. And their cars cost like 3 thousand! If we pay them more, then what will they do with all that extra money? And, things will start costing more for us! That isn't fair.'
I was just... wowed by that. Honestly? $2 a day to support a family of 8? Sure, canned goods are cheap - but they can't be a staple. And $2 doesn't pay for medical care.
I was tempted to tell her to go live in one of those countries, working herself to the bone and see how "good" it was. But. For all I know she is actually a decent person, working to pay her way through school, and she's just a little confused.
heh.
Ever had a similar experience? Does anyone actually agree with her?[[EDIT: and, should I have posted this in politics? It isn't really politics, but... ]]
In all honesty though, I agree with the principle of keeping the "under-developed" nations short. Not that I try to convince myself it's the best for them, it's just selfishness on my side. There's not enough resources for seven billion people living even by the relatively low standards of my life, so If I am lucky enough, to be born on the side of the people who don't have to live in mud-huts, than I sure as hell won't try to change it.
This may make me a terrible person, but honestly who on here (who at all) would move into a smaller flat (like the one I share with my boyfriend isn't blody small already), eat less, no longer use a Pc, no longer use cars and all that, in order to improve the life of people that they are never going to meet.
Decide for yourself, but I sure as hell don't want to.
My teacher thinks that central america is its own continent, that 28/30 on a test is a B-, and that repeating the same speech every class will make the class stop talking, even though it never works.
Seriously, somebody needs to give the girl described by the OP a lesson about how terrible it is in "small countries." Not that "send her to a 3rd world country" lesson, just plain telling her. She's obviously confused about how money works.
Seriously, somebody needs to give the girl described by the OP a lesson about how terrible it is in "small countries." Not that "send her to a 3rd world country" lesson, just plain telling her. She's obviously confused about how money works.
That just makes me think of how Garfield would always send Nermal to Abu Dabi in a packaging box when she annoyed him.ultrachicken said:
OT: Yeah, people are shallow and ignorant. Welcome to humanity.
T_T those girl's.....they......how....but......no one is that stupid they must have been joking.......please tell me they were joking.
"A Pinto model built by ford leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. it gets rear ended and crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out of court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one"Daystar Clarion said:
OT: sometimes i catch really stupid people saying "Why don't poor countrys just print off more money" I could think of somthing better but it's one and... Zzzzzzzzzz
If I have read correctly, then these girls (or their families) are paying $1 or $2 a day to people in other countries through a program such as Worldvision. Regardless of how they feel abou those people, they are still donating their money, which is better than doing nothing.
Of course I could have read that completely wrong. If I am not wrong though, then these girls deserve no harsh critisism, because living in a Capatalist country, aside from what you are taxed, your money is your own, and every dollar you send counts.
Of course I could have read that completely wrong. If I am not wrong though, then these girls deserve no harsh critisism, because living in a Capatalist country, aside from what you are taxed, your money is your own, and every dollar you send counts.
Fun fact. This is also the reason that cars blow up in movies (or at least the original reason).Daystar Clarion said:
OT: All I can say is that the world would be better off without people like her... Although the way to get rid of like people are education (and less allowances).
Wait, what? Those girls do sound stupid, but things are cheaper in third world countries. You would NOT be able to feed a family on $2 a day in a developed nation. They are obviously able to, or natural selection would have run its course by now and they would have starved to death.
The whole "OMG UR SO RICH GUYZ" mentality is really starting to get old. Money has different value depending on the country. If my family moved from Canada to Switzerland and kept our current income, we'd all be upper-lower class instead of middle class citizens, due to the high cost of everything there. If we moved to remote Nigeria with our current income, we'd be part of the elite upper class.
The whole "OMG UR SO RICH GUYZ" mentality is really starting to get old. Money has different value depending on the country. If my family moved from Canada to Switzerland and kept our current income, we'd all be upper-lower class instead of middle class citizens, due to the high cost of everything there. If we moved to remote Nigeria with our current income, we'd be part of the elite upper class.