We can give as much money to aid for countries as possible but there is a reason why many of these countries are the way they are.
Oppressive governments and oppressive cultures. Talk about the starving kids in Africa? They live in a country where women are seen as objects and to rape a woman is socially acceptable. Woman gets raped, is shamed by her community, has no access to the things that America takes for granted like food stamps or government funded birth control or abortion or even education! Gives birth to a mouth that can't be fed and lives cycles on all the while, whatever wealth and resources that their nation has to offer goes to whoever in power.
Half the battle for charity organizations and just to establish good enough diplomatic relations with these governments to be able to go to their country and offer aid. A lot of people make ignorant statements about how we need to fund birth control in those countries and hell yeah right! That shit is illegal or at least not socially acceptable there. Most of the countries that have weak or no women's rights (which roughly translates to no children's rights either) are often some of the worst countries for poverty.
It is not so much an issue of money or resources as it is an issue of shitty social values and shitty governments as well as the constant state of warfare and turmoil caused by aforementioned shitty social values. Maybe if they all stopped fighting, raping and money grubbing long enough to cooperate, they would get shit done but unless they do, there is no hope for those countries no matter how much money we first worlders throw at them. Social and political change needs to happen and I can no see hundreds of years of tribal warfare and social BS changing even in a hundred years.
Will Third World countries exist in 100 years?
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I doubt it. I highly doubt it.
We can give as much money to aid for countries as possible but there is a reason why many of these countries are the way they are.
Oppressive governments and oppressive cultures. Talk about the starving kids in Africa? They live in a country where women are seen as objects and to rape a woman is socially acceptable. Woman gets raped, is shamed by her community, has no access to the things that America takes for granted like food stamps or government funded birth control or abortion or even education! Gives birth to a mouth that can't be fed and lives cycles on all the while, whatever wealth and resources that their nation has to offer goes to whoever in power.
Half the battle for charity organizations and just to establish good enough diplomatic relations with these governments to be able to go to their country and offer aid. A lot of people make ignorant statements about how we need to fund birth control in those countries and hell yeah right! That shit is illegal or at least not socially acceptable there. Most of the countries that have weak or no women's rights (which roughly translates to no children's rights either) are often some of the worst countries for poverty.
It is not so much an issue of money or resources as it is an issue of shitty social values and shitty governments as well as the constant state of warfare and turmoil caused by aforementioned shitty social values. Maybe if they all stopped fighting, raping and money grubbing long enough to cooperate, they would get shit done but unless they do, there is no hope for those countries no matter how much money we first worlders throw at them. Social and political change needs to happen and I can no see hundreds of years of tribal warfare and social BS changing even in a hundred years.