I was born and raised in a "3rd world country" and volunteered in an orphanage - Ask me anything

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Anonymous wrote:When and how did you emmigrate to the US? How did you meet your American DH?

I'm not an immigrant according to your laws just a visitor and I was never married to an American man so your second question does not apply.

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Anonymous wrote:Ok, some real questions.

Did you ever go hungry? Did anyone in your neighborhood go hungry? Did your neighborhood have running water? Did your home have electricity and heat? Was your government elected? Were the elections real? Did you ever experience hyper inflation? What was the source of the best development help your country received? What was the source of the most self-serving or damaging development help your country received?

We never went hungry but we ran out of food once. We're members of a religious community and they helped us out when we needed. We had a few members drop of food and some eve paid our water and electricity bills those months. During this time we didn't have phone and cable we actually never had.

My neighborhood had running water but some neighbors were on food stamps. Nobody in our neighborhood had heat or AC but everybody had electricity.

Yup our government is elected straight from the polls. There are no primary elections there. Knowing my folks well as I know I can assure you our elections are real.

Hyperinflation was a reality in the 80s. Our economy took a turn and it's been uphill since late 90s so it's only getting better. When your market crashed a few years ago we gave you guys a lot of money.

I believe the biggest one was the end of slavery along with our independence - both financed by the US (and now you guys find out where I'm from) - even though you guys did it interested in our market still it was the most important step for our development.

Now the most stupid thing someone ever did for us was to close our country to international adoptions - yes UNICEF I'm talking to you.

The money they give us is not even close to being enough to make up for the benefits international adoptions can bring.