re:Africa

[bonimoss]

hey everyone,

WHY DO PEOPLE ASSUME THAT THE WHOLE OF AFRICA IS POVERTY STRIKEN?TELL ME WHY?

[larazovich]

Re: Africa

Often that is the most publicised - that is, there are many many commercials on television soliciting funds for impoverished children in Africa. And because many many people are not properly educated regarding geography, they tend to lump all of Africa into one idea, that of impoverished children.
Pity, that kind of stereotyping.
It is not just Africa that is misrepresented. All alaska is often as an iceburg, and all Scotland a bog. Austrailia is either seen as an outback filled with kangaroos or a giant city with an operahouse.
California, where I live is perceived as Hollywood - not at all like where I live.
The same of course holds true for stereotyping people according to geography, or color, or race, or any number of other criteria.
Sorry thing, that.

[Collectors-info]

Re: Africa

Simple. The media gives us (The public) what sells the most & makes the most money, no matter how controversial. So if it sells more papers & articles for showing starving children or wars in Africa, that’s what they will sell, using shock tactics.
This, unfortunately this will take a long time to change.

[zuriatman]

Re: Africa

Because the media never show the African middle class only the rich and 90% of the time, the poor and starving.

With the exception of some countries, most of the leaders who came into power abuse their position became dictators or rape the country of its riches for personal gain and forsake the poor.

The amount of money they budget for "health and education" is deplorable but instead spend 50% of the country's budget on buying weapons of mass destruction to consolidate their own position of strength.

That is what the media has been brain washing us to believe all the while.