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Film This Week in Film: The End of Poverty?
Posted by Lindy West on Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:25 AM
Is it? Is it the end of poverty? Question mark? Well, is it? Charles Mudede investigates:
My problem with this section, the first section, which runs for about 60 minutes, is it marks all North/South encounters as a fall from paradise (natural economies) for the societies in the South. But pre-European societies in Africa and South America were by no means perfect. They, too, were plagued with violence, greed, and all sorts of exploitive practices. The problem is not Europe alone; the problem is the whole human race. Why are we so cruel to each other?
Read the whole thing HERE.
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