Wednesday, January 27, 2010

American anthropologists discover inhabitants on an island near the US

The Onion reports that:
Less than two weeks after converging upon the site of a devastating magnitude 7.0 earthquake, American anthropologists have confirmed the discovery of a small, poverty-stricken island nation, known to its inhabitants as "Haiti."
Located just 700 miles off the southeastern coast of Florida, the previously unaccounted-for country is believed to be home to an estimated 10 million people.
Even more astounding, reports now indicate that these people have likely inhabited the impoverished, destitute region—unnoticed by the rest of the world—for more than 300 years.
It is awful that the poor billions of the world register a blip on our radars only if a country attacks us, or if a tragedy strikes them. Otherwise, it is always "who cares" because "it is always about us"
The Onion has been doing its part to satirize this for a long time.  One of their clips I have used a couple of times in the past is the following one:

And, in a TED talk, Alisa Miller--the head of Public Radio International--described how much we in the US only care about ourselves ....

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