The Epic 237

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Misconceptions

Theskunktrainer

on Dec. 4, 2009

in reference to this page, I think that all the commercials we see asking for money for children in Africa to some extent hinders Africa more than it helps. For many being raised in our Western-centric world, these commercials represent the majority of their exposure to what Africa "is," which leads to misconceptions that people like my unnamed relative have, that all of Africa is poor, living in huts, and something for the benevolent Western world to pity. I think we might have talked about that in class…

They do have cities, they do have skyscrapers, television, happy families. The number of hunter-gathering tribes still left are severly limited.