Just a Typical rural neighborhood scene. Dirt streets, barefoot children, hammock hanging, palm tree, unpainted bricks and a sign on the house "Se Vende", For Sale.
I'm just guessing, but I suspect this photo shows how the true majority of people on earth really live. As you write, this is "Just a typical rural neighborhood scene." For most of my life, whenever I had the chance to seriously travel, the destination was a second or third world country. After awhile, I recognized the common denominator of poverty, and you can see it in this picture. Culture, economy, religion... these forces don't really make much difference for the truly poor, except as they maintain a conspiracy-like effort to keep poor people from interfering. If this little girl was not Mexican, your photo could have been taken in any poor country, such as India, Ethiopia, Malaysia, Thailand, Nepal or poor neighborhoods in economically more stable parts of the world. It's sobering (and humbling) to realize great numbers of people live in these conditions generation after generation, and I wonder how they do it. The truth is that they probably don't ever do well, but are constantly hammered by disease and hardship until conditions finally kill them.
I'm just guessing, but I suspect this photo shows how the true majority of people on earth really live. As you write, this is "Just a typical rural neighborhood scene." For most of my life, whenever I had the chance to seriously travel, the destination was a second or third world country. After awhile, I recognized the common denominator of poverty, and you can see it in this picture. Culture, economy, religion... these forces don't really make much difference for the truly poor, except as they maintain a conspiracy-like effort to keep poor people from interfering. If this little girl was not Mexican, your photo could have been taken in any poor country, such as India, Ethiopia, Malaysia, Thailand, Nepal or poor neighborhoods in economically more stable parts of the world. It's sobering (and humbling) to realize great numbers of people live in these conditions generation after generation, and I wonder how they do it. The truth is that they probably don't ever do well, but are constantly hammered by disease and hardship until conditions finally kill them.
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