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LeftRightLeft · Post by **LeftRightLeft** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 6:00 pm

You are horrible horrible people

:p

Karilyn · Post by **Karilyn** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 6:01 pm

Mr. Mander wrote:Apparently Haiti isn't very good at sustaining itself or something, they have like, zero farmland.

That isn't a very educated reason. It's perfectly possible for a country to be successful even with minimal farmland. The perfect example being Japan, which gets it's food primarily from the ocean. However, Haiti is also the perfect example of a country that will likely never improve, or will not improve until the nation has a meaningful revolution.

The average income per adult in Haiti is only $1,317 a year, adjusted by buying power relative to other nations. This ranks them as the 171th poorest nation in the world. There are 194 nations in the world.

I am not familiar enough with Haiti to say if this is due to government, or population problems, or what. Knowing what I know about several other extremely low end nations, it's probably a combination of everything. But moving the citizens somewhere else will not be very likely to solve any problems.

There is a direct correlation between the wealth of the nation, and the education, violence, and political unrest of the citizens, and most of the nations ranked that low have been in a civil war for years.

AKA: Places you don't wanna go to.

A quick overlook of the Haiti wikipedia page seems to indicate all of the above is true for the nation. And they have been bouncing around with various dictators, and military overthrowing the government for decades.

Haiti is plagued by violence, rape and other brutal crimes, theft, and warfare.

Cité Soleil, Haiti’s largest slum in the capital of Port-au-Prince, has been called "the most dangerous place on Earth" by the United Nations.

Squigzog · Post by **Squigzog** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 6:02 pm

No they are half decent people. I am a horrible person.

I didn't care for it at all.

Kalekemo · Post by **Kalekemo** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 6:05 pm

As my psych professor said, unfortunately, due to the earthquake putting so much debris into the air, a large majority of the people who are living in the area will develop lung cancer or other lung problems over the next decade or so, and THAT is what I feel sorry for the most

Decker · Post by **Decker** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 6:07 pm

Honestly, I don't really care about Haiti.

I find it extremely difficult to emotionally invest in things that are not happening to me or somebody very close to me.

I'm sorry but that's just how I am. I don't care about Haiti, what's important to me is that my family and my friends are all okay.

Defenestrator2.0 · Post by **Defenestrator2.0** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 8:09 pm

Decker wrote:Honestly, I don't really care about Haiti.

I find it extremely difficult to emotionally invest in things that are not happening to me or somebody very close to me.

I'm sorry but that's just how I am. I don't care about Haiti, what's important to me is that my family and my friends are all okay.

Strangely, I've felt that way, too. I want to care, but for some reason, I just can't connect with the disaster emotionally.

Karilyn · Post by **Karilyn** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 8:24 pm

Monkeysphere

Or for a more serious approach to the same concept...

Dunbar's Number

DoNotDelete · Post by **DoNotDelete** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 8:50 pm

Defenestrator2.0 wrote:
Decker wrote:Honestly, I don't really care about Haiti.

I find it extremely difficult to emotionally invest in things that are not happening to me or somebody very close to me.

I'm sorry but that's just how I am. I don't care about Haiti, what's important to me is that my family and my friends are all okay.
Strangely, I've felt that way, too. I want to care, but for some reason, I just can't connect with the disaster emotionally.

There's a term for this that I heard the other day.

It's to do with being continually exposed to images of people suffering/in need.

The over-exposure to disasters like Haiti and being persistently asked for aid and stuff creates an acclimatisation effect where said disasters no longer draw any kind of emotional response and just produce a feeling of 'Meh, another disaster?' in the viewing audience.

Like I say, there is a term for it, but I can't remember it.

Kalekemo · Post by **Kalekemo** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 8:51 pm

DoNotDelete wrote:
Defenestrator2.0 wrote:
Decker wrote:Honestly, I don't really care about Haiti.

I find it extremely difficult to emotionally invest in things that are not happening to me or somebody very close to me.

I'm sorry but that's just how I am. I don't care about Haiti, what's important to me is that my family and my friends are all okay.
Strangely, I've felt that way, too. I want to care, but for some reason, I just can't connect with the disaster emotionally.
There's a term for this that I heard the other day.

It's to do with being continually exposed to images of people suffering/in need.

The over-exposure to disasters like Haiti and being persistently asked for aid and stuff creates an acclimatisation effect where said disasters no longer draw any kind of emotional response and just produce a feeling of 'Meh, another disaster?' in the viewing audience.

Like I say, there is a term for it, but I can't remember it.

Desensitized?

DoNotDelete · Post by **DoNotDelete** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 8:52 pm

Kalekemo wrote:Desensitized?

Yep, that's the one.

Tall-Hatted Yanimae · Post by **Tall-Hatted Yanimae** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 8:58 pm

I dunno. I think becoming desensitized can especially happen if you browse 4Chan a lot.

DEF.

jk lol
But I've donated to the Haiti. Sure it may not be happening to me, but I imagine to myself "That could easily happen to me. You just never know. Wouldn't I want someone in the world to care what happens to a huge multitude of people driven to poverty because of a natural disaster that they couldn't prevent?"
It's something I can never find myself become desensitized to. Because I see a lot of it, that just makes me more sensitive to it actually. And with all my being I wish that they will find a good life to be able to move on with their lives and find peace after having to carry their dead and see their families and friends suffer.

Karilyn · Post by **Karilyn** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 9:03 pm

Tall-Hatted Yanimae wrote:I wish that they will find a good life to be able to move on with their lives and find peace.

I think you have a false idea of what Haiti is like.

Tall-Hatted Yanimae · Post by **Tall-Hatted Yanimae** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 9:10 pm

I read about what it's like there.

Doesn't mean happiness can't be found.
This can mean a multitude of things, like they do have that Revolution you mentioned or try to turn their country over for the better.

DoNotDelete · Post by **DoNotDelete** » Sun Jan 17, 2010 9:13 pm

It's irony and onomatopoeia all rolled into one.

Haiti.

Pronounced HATE-y.

Which is also the name of the lesser-known eighth dwarf from one of Disney's animated films.

Bill Nye the Science Guy · Sun Jan 17, 2010 9:25 pm

dont worry, after its all done

THEY WILL NEVER REMEMBER