Madonna - FAIL!!!
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Whether she adopts this kid or not, it really doesn't make a hill of beans of difference to anyone except to two people, the kid in question and Madonna. Is it a net plus or minus for them? Who knows...good for Madonna if she has some love in her heart that wants to get expressed this way, but she shouldn't be allowed to run roughshod over local laws just because she can...but she's only one person, and the kid is only one person..
But Georgesll is right in the larger view..this whole idea of "Africa is a big poor country with people who can't take care of themselves..." is a weird, warped view that needs to stop. They're are countries, regions and cities in Africa that are far richer and better than the poorer regions of the US of A, although of course the US is richer as a whole by far than any nation in Africa in terms of GDP. (plenty of places in Africa I would live in before I'd live in Detroit, for example - on quality of life issues). Of course their is deep and abject hunger, resource deprivation and entrenched oppression across the continent, and it's really not helped by giving billions of dollars of aid to despots who horde the best for themselves, which is what ends up happening more often than not.
The whole concept in the West of pitying poor poor Africa is just helping to retard the entire continent. And it doesn't help that the Chinese are going full tilt on now for resource extraction from the continent....
- Africa is a continent.sherm
- Exactly. That's what I was saying.TheBlueOne
- But it's not what you said.404NotFound
- Yes he did - "They're are countries, regions and cities in Africa"lherb
- TheBlueOne knows what he's talking about.monospaced