Study in contrasts

Gonz

Gonz

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Fascinating story on how different our world really is. Focus on the aspects of humanity & I won't bring up NIMBY liberals or the UN :D

They may be the world's closest thing to a truly stateless people: abducted 200 years ago into slavery, relegated in our time to near serfdom and driven finally into exile by civil war.

Until recently, most had never flushed a toilet, flicked a light switch, climbed a flight of stairs or watched a TV. They had never talked on a telephone, cooked on a stove or ridden in a car, never held a pen or used a fork. Many have never crossed a paved road.

This year, stories have come out of Kenya about Bantus who got stuck in a classroom because they did not know how to use the doorknob; who got off the bus at an interim refugee camp thinking they had arrived in America; who asked whether they had to go with their luggage as it passed through the airport X-ray machine.

Some question the cost of educating and serving such a people. Plans to cluster Somali Bantu families in Cayce, S.C., and Holyoke, Mass., met with such opposition that resettlement officials canceled plans for Holyoke and will place about half the refugees slated for Cayce in neighboring Columbia instead.
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USA Today
 
That study would seem more appealling to me if we studied them in their own habitat instead of force feeding them ours to show them how depraived they are. My bet would be that mental health stats were much better in their undisturbed world than in our twisted wreckage...Just a thought...:D
 
Gato_Solo said:
I think he's on another anti-immigrant tack, but I'll reserve judgement for a bit more.
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:confused:

There is nothing wrong with legal immigration
 
Squiggy said:
That study would seem more appealling to me if we studied them in their own habitat instead of force feeding them ours to show them how depraived they are.
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That study would be momre appealing to me if it were Americans being studied in their habitat.. reckon that would be a damn good laugh, no?
 
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