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The Brazil 1st world media doesn't show
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
Salvador, Bahia
Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais
Manaus, Amazonas
Recife, Pernambuco
Macapá, Amapá
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
Florianópolis, Santa Catarina
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no human has made me cry as much as my visa appointment (or lack there of) has. oh to be an international student moving from third world to first world. like bye bestie i do give up now.
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"cave update is best update"
"newest update best update"
well, unfortunately, one of their features is requiring an OpenGL that only exists in first world PCs, pricing out most of the world, which was already massively underrepresented in the Minecraft community.
The visible MC community was already 99,999% US and UK, now they'll be the only ones there.
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just existing as a queer person in this world is so disheartning. i love being queer, i love havin queer experiences and i love my community, but it is sad seeing so much hate envolving us just living our lifes. it has been worse in the past and we got throught it, althought it seems like we will always be dehumanized by society. it is exausting. recently in my country, Brazil, a political party that our late president ( Jair Bolsonaro, he was a dickhead and a neoliberal) was a part of was trying to pass a legislation to criminalize homoafetive marriage and only recognize male-female marriages. i dont think this law has much chance of becoming a thing, but at the same time i fear it and it also scares me seeing that many people actually supported that. i love being brazilian and i love being queer but seeing how the LGBTQIA+ community, specially our trans siblings, is seen in here makes me lose hope. having a world where queer and trans people can live peacefully and proudly, without fearing bigots, is too much to ask?
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I saw Elizabeth Arden wash down the drain
Staying over at a friend's place during a festival led me to Elizabeth Arden. A faded white plastic tube from the My Fifth Avenue collection, its shower gel was the epitome of moisturizing. As a frequent user of generic shower gel for bathing purposes, I was bewitched by its subtle fragrance and rich lathering. It was to no surprise that my heart broke when the previously applied gel eventually washed down the drain. My third world country heart ached for the loss of such a beloved product, a shower gel that would have pleased people for aeons to come. Such is the mindset of the third world miser and her silly little heart.
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I grew up in a small town in a third-world country and everything that I saw online felt unachievable, things like Arctic Monkeys concerts, and aesthetics that just felt so out of place, and I felt like I didn't belong to where I lived.
Now I'm here, living that girl's dream, but I still feel like I'm missing something. Maybe the problem was just me.
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It’s super fucked up that my younger siblings don’t want to go places and enjoy life for fear that a YT mass shooter will show up spraying
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When I found this image, I knew it would be good to use for this weeks post. The readings this week discuss third world countries. We hit on topics such as women's rights, education, etc. It is so important for people to understand what goes on in third world countries. People tend to think that it is not their problem; these people live halfway across the world, why should I care? When thinking about this, we must realize that these are people. We are talking about people born into different situations than we were. One individual may not be able to make a change, but if many step forward, then things can be done. The photographed women is someones daughter, friend, sister, and mother. Remember that.
Kiernan McDonald
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I don't know if you should really have a say in Cuban matters, as a tourist. Guests to North Korea only see the best side of it, too...
a) Saying the US is worse than Cuba isn't "having a say in Cuban matters"
It's giving my opinion as a third-worlder based on what I know of the two countries after visiting both.
b) I'm not some first-worlder looking at Cuba through rose-tinted glasses. I'm from a third-world country. I know what poverty looks like, and I know how to recognize a bad situation when I see it.
Poor Cubans have electricity. They have a minimum food allowance so they don't starve. They have free access to some of the best healthcare in the world. They can afford to travel by plane. They can read.
That's not normal for poor people in other parts of the world.
c) I didn't live like a tourist.
My professor and his Cuban wife set up the program specifically with the intention of showing what real life is like in Cuba by having students live as Cubans.
I went to a Cuban university alongside Cuban students
I used Cuban money (not the tourist money)
I had a Cuban ID
I travelled via Cuban transports that only the Cubans use; including getting dropped off the side of a highway by a bus because where we were going didn't have buses as well as taking a camión bus at three in the morning with only Cubans
I visited the homes of my Cuban friends in their villages
I talked in Spanish with the locals, including my Cuban friends, who were not shy about their complaints about life in Cuba (most of which had to do with the illegal US embargo)
I took a class on Cuban history as part of my stay
I visited the equivalent of a Cuban campground that only Cubans are allowed to go to -- with Cuban friends
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Not Just a "You" Problem
Greenhouse gases are something everyone contributes to, and yet everyone suffers from them. It has been proven that developing countries are hit hardest by the negative effects of greenhouse gases, hindering social progress and exacerbating environmental degradation.
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I know I'm a week late but I do think people are misunderstanding the point of the Anthony Bourdain quote about Kissinger
The point was never "Anthony Bourdain has good politics and is an unproblematic fave," the point is that even someone with mainstream liberalish politics who goes to Cambodia for a food tour - a, let's be honest, very bougie type of trip to be part of your job - and has a basic understanding of history and a bare minimum of human decency can come away from that bougie food tour wanting to murder Henry Kissinger with their bare hands. The point is that Henry Kissinger fucked up this country so bad the only reason he wasn't lynched decades ago is because it's on the opposite side of the world and the people who were in proximity to him never really saw what it was. The point is that if we could see firsthand what our First World politics do to the Third World we would understand that monsters walk among us and it's a cultural failing that we let them die at home at 100 years old surrounded by their friends and family.
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Goal: be aesthetic.
Obstacle: being poor and living in a poor neighbourhood of a third world contry.
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America is fucking disgusting.
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