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[QUOTE="Stained_Eligius, post: 10152, member: 1958"] Yes, compassion with african suffering is fine but they are not europeans, they don't think along the same lines and hence the answer to their problems is not properly addressed by using western monetary methods. Look at what the aborigines did with the cars the government gave them... An article I read in a big foldy-out paper suggested that things in Africa will never change due to the mindset of the average citizen. The writer said that they actually prefer things the way they are. No-one ever becomes really solvent because of the sharing of goods and posessions and tribal systems. They just put up with it because they know that everyone suffers. Ricky Gervais made a comment in answer to the fact that some African women walk 15 miles a day to get water. 'Why don't they fu#king move then!" Was his answer. Bit uncharitable maybe but representative of how we might tackle the same problem. Surely we should only have to demonstrate how to dig a well once? Prodigal is right, the African nations themselves need to address the problems. But can they? Sod it, I'm posting this :) [/QUOTE]
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