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If The World Were A Village
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I think the the thing that surprised me the most out of this whole book was the fact that I was actually surpsrised. I always thought I was pretty aware and informed about how unequal and disproportioned goods are, but I literally found myself thinking, "whoa!" The part that I was the most taken aback by, though, was the part in the book about food. There were more than twice as many chickens than people plus all the other produce and animals, but it was so unevenly distributed. I've always been aware of the food shortages around the world, but it wasn't until after after I read the part in the book about how 15 people were overweight in the village, 20 people were undernurished, and one person was dying of starvation that I really related it back to the rest of the world. I just thought about how it makes no sense that the United States has an obesity problem, yet there are people dying of starvation all around the world.
I think I was also surpsised at how I kept expecting the categories I would fit into to be bigger. For example of all the one hundred people, only seven spoke English and only fourteen were from the United States and Canada. I don't think it's because I think the world revolves around me, I just think it's because I a lot of the times will limit myself to American resources, and they usually will tell about the dilemma abroad, then focus on how it will affect us.
I think by narrowing down the world's population into just 100 people, I've been able to see not just a country individually, but a country related to the rest of the world.

October 9, 2009 | 11:08 AM Comments  0 comments





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