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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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sure you can say science, economic classes... but that only works in the USA or better yet, places where poor aren't poor compared to the rest of the world's poor.
Black Eyed Peas singer Apl did a song called the Apl Song. When I was in Manila just after Katrina hit, that's the OP is what people asked me, "How come your poor people in the US are fat?" They could not understand it at all. We have "poor" people who have cable TV, microwaves, a building over their heads, where in contrast, many poor in India or the Philippines live in shantys or mud huts, those that happen to have a TV steal electricity and cable signal.
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Every place got a ghetto this is my version
Check it out...
Listen closely yo, I got a story to tell
A version of my ghetto where life felt for real
Some would call it hell but to me it was heaven
God gave me the grace, amazin' ways of living
How would you feel if you had to catch your meal?
Build a hut to live and to eat and chill in.
Having to pump the water outta the ground
The way we put it down utilizing what is around
Like land for farming, river for fishing
Everyone helpin' each other whenever they can
We makin' it happen, from nothin' to somethin'
That's how we be survivin' back in my homeland
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From Time Magazine
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What about the poor? The statistics speak for themselves. Half of all Indian children are undernourished, and half of all adult women suffer from anemia. According to the latest U.N. Development Programme Human Development Report, India has among the highest undernutrition levels in the world, along with Ethiopia and Bangladesh. In fact, Bangladesh is doing better than India in many measures of development, such as rates of infant and maternal mortality and of school enrollment. Despite India's faster economic growth, Bangladesh is progressing quicker in health and nutrition indicators: in 1990, India had an infant mortality rate of 80 per 1,000 live births, compared with 96 in Bangladesh. Today, the ranking is reversed: 67 in India and 51 in Bangladesh.
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Last edited by Cynthetiq; 06-03-2007 at 08:43 PM..
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