clone said:
'In the Asian, African and Latin American countries, well over 500 million people are living in what the World Bank has called "absolute poverty"(http://library.thinkquest.org/C002291/high/present/stats.htm).'
So? They weren't doing too well before the Europeans came along, either ...
t because your one of the lucky 10 percent of the world that has enough to eat and a roof over your head, you find it okay to say "its not my problem".
It's really not their problem; these people had millenia to do the same as the Europe and the West. They chose something different, like insisting on maintaining their religious and cultural status quos in the face of a changing world that never remains static. Nobody forced them to do this, certainly not the West, or modern corporations.
Poverty all over the world isnt like poverty in america or europe. Most people dont get oppurtunities to go to school or get an education at all, let alone a decent job. Does that make it their fault?
Yes.
its the multi-national corporations fault; the same people that have more money than several 3rd world countries combined; the same people that flood the 3rd world with overpriced unneccessary goods; the same people that corrupt leaders and cause inflation, the same people that force poor countries into exporting huge amounts of their natural resources at bargain rates.
Nonsense. They're merely opportunists taking advantage of what already existed before they came along. The old adage 'You can't cheat an honest man' still applies, despite being somewhat simplisitic; the modern West didn't invent corruption, slavery, racism, superstition, or poverty.
how can you even think for a second that poverty in Palestine or anywhere else for that matter is the peoples fault?
The faux 'palestinians' are the highest paid 'refugees' in the world, getting 3 times the aid of other refugees, and get free power plants and other bennies to boot. They got most of thise through extortion, and this is still their favored method of 'earning a living'. I wasn't the only one who saw the mobs of cretins tearing down millions of dollars in modern high tech greenhouses when the Israelis stupidly pulled those settlers out of Gaza, just because 'they were built for the Jews'.
I can also recommend several books describing how Jewish labor union organizers expended a huge and ultimately futile effort to get Arabs to form their own unions, or join Jewish ones, in the 1930's, but of course since most of them are virulently racist and more interested in 'Pan-Arabist' Nazism at the time than modernizing and competing, they chose not to participate.
They're so busy trying to get food, water and shelter (much like the people in America's Projects) that they dont realize they're being used to fund some guy in Californias 13th swimming pool. Just because america is rich enough to give most of us a stable lifestyle doesnt mean people in 3rd world countries get the same.
They're too busy having 15 kids and overwhelming their infrastructure, instead of using modern birth control and other practices, simply because they can extort more 'aid' out of the UN and Europe. They're far more interested in maintaining atavistic racist and cultural 'belief' systems than joining the modern world. Naturally, this means they're doomed to a live lives of mindless stupidity and jealous, genocidal manias; Ke Sara Sara ...