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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wouldn't say I "rule them out" - but I find that most people who don't leave this country are pretty ignorant about things that go on in this world.  They will spend thousands of dollars on "organic" (yes, that is meaning to mock") mac N cheese powdered process cheese a year, while there are children who go without clean water.  There are arguments every day on DCUM about how there are the "harms" of battery powered flashing toys - when some children play with sticks and rocks.

It's hard to be friends with people who have so much and take so much for granted every day and choose to be ignorant to the world around them.  I have a lot and am greatful for it, but I think it is my job to teach my daughter that she has a greater duty to this world.  That there are people with less - and I don't mean people with food stamps who get to eat - I mean people who walk 10 miles a day to fill a bucket of clean water for their children to drink.

THAT is what I can't be friends with people who don't invest in the world around them.  Because they don't invest in me.[/quote]

Get over yourself. I've lived in 7 countries over the course of my life, met ignorant people in every single one, not just the U.S. BTW, most people understand there is dire poverty in third world countries. U[b]nless you yourself are actually immersing yourself and living with the poor, shut your mouth. So, you go to a developing country, gawk and pity the poor people, and then go back to your fancy hotel, electricity, and clean water...and somehow, this makes you a better citizen of the world than Joe Blow sitting on the beach in Clearwate[/b]r.[/quote]

Well said.  Also I might add, what makes you think you cannot experience other cultures while living in the United States?  Where do you live?  A gated community in Connecticut perhaps?  [/quote]

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