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Da Shins Kelly wrote: »We have seen historically and all across the world, birth rates and populations are in correlation with access to education (particularly for women), and wealth, prosperity and industrialisation. Birth rates drop when there is education and industrialisation, which can be seen in the UK, US, and even here in Ireland. High birth rates are a symptom of poverty. It's human nature and pretty instinctive really - have more children because of the mortality rate, and have a better chance of producing a child which will be a genetic improvement and maybe they will be able to do the kind of work that will bring more income into the household. Also, more children means more hands to help out. We don't think of this because we live in the developed world and we don't rely so much on our own farming and such to survive, we just walk down to the shop and buy whatever we need.
And this isn't even getting into the rape crisis in parts of Africa.
Looking at it from the perspective of the educated, prosperous developed world and saying 'oh, just stop having children will you?' is not really seeing it at all.
Help them do what? If there was anything to hunt or grow they wouldn't be starving. And if you're having kids so that they'll walk 13 miles to a well everyday for water and back, then that's selfish. I learned in Junior Cert geography that they have lots of kids as a kind of 'insurance policy,'
to look after them when they old; also selfish.
I know it's not as easy as saying 'stop having kids.' But do they have to have so many? And I know the thing about less education = more kids but it seems like a cop out excuse imo. And I know they're not to blame for their own misfortune but it just seems ridiculous to me to keep having kids in such horrible conditions. I just can't grasp it and I suppose I never will
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NegativeCreep wrote: »Help them do what? If there was anything to hunt or grow they wouldn't be starving. And if you're having kids so that they'll walk 13 miles to a well everyday for water and back, then that's selfish. I learned in Junior Cert geography that they have lots of kids as a kind of 'insurance policy,'
to look after them when they old; also selfish.
I know it's not as easy as saying 'stop having kids.' But do they have to have so many? And I know the thing about less education = more kids but it seems like a cop out excuse imo. And I know they're not to blame for their own misfortune but it just seems ridiculous to me to keep having kids in such horrible conditions. I just can't grasp it and I suppose I never will
How is it a cop-out excuse? Women are uneducated about their bodies in these countries and have no knowledge of birth control options, much less access to them. Often it's not just a case of refusing to have sex either, especially in countries where violence against women is so prevalent and gender equality is pretty much non-existent. There are reasons why it happens, and it's happened pretty much every where across all cultures at some point or another. The main problem is that African economies are just not growing fast enough, and if they do start to improve, the fertility rates will drop. We've seen it happen before.
It's probably worth noting too that a lot of African countries are not constantly suffering from drought and famine all year round every year. It is possible to harvest the earth. Also, a lot of these food shortages are being exacerbated by conflict. So maybe what they really need to do is put down the fcuking guns?0 -
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When somebody complains about conservatives i usually expect them to have an annoying US/UK hybrid type of Irish accent
Tbf, one of the parents is American & I have lived in the UK for the past 12 or 13 years. What's great here (or in London, at any rate) is that nobody gives a damn about your accent
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Tbf, one of the parents is American & I have lived in the UK for the past 12 or 13 years. What's great here (or in London, at any rate) is that nobody gives a damn about your accent
Hmm, funnily when i lived in London I was turned down for a promotion on account of the fact that i was "too northern". Had i been "too jamaican" or "too french" it would have been classed as racist, but not because I was from the north of England.0 -
summerskin wrote: »Hmm, funnily when i lived in London I was turned down for a promotion on account of the fact that i was "too northern". Had i been "too jamaican" or "too french" it would have been classed as racist, but not because I was from the north of England.
It's certainly discrimination. Admittedly, there was this one time I applied for an on air gig & the chap I spoke with told me his boss preferred Southern English accents as opposed to my own brand of radio speak.
Ironically, he was a Canadian 0 -
NegativeCreep wrote: »Help them do what? If there was anything to hunt or grow they wouldn't be starving. And if you're having kids so that they'll walk 13 miles to a well everyday for water and back, then that's selfish. I learned in Junior Cert geography that they have lots of kids as a kind of 'insurance policy,'
to look after them when they old; also selfish.
I know it's not as easy as saying 'stop having kids.' But do they have to have so many? And I know the thing about less education = more kids but it seems like a cop out excuse imo. And I know they're not to blame for their own misfortune but it just seems ridiculous to me to keep having kids in such horrible conditions. I just can't grasp it and I suppose I never will
Unpopular opinion:
Africans, why don't you build your villages closer to the well?
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