I was disgusted to read the letter from Mr I Amok, and the points he made on poverty. Where he said, "poverty isn't that bad, only a few people are really poor". I think that he hasn't studied countries enough because countries in Africa
Dear Editor,
I was disgusted to read the letter from Mr I Amok, and the points he made on poverty. Where he said, “poverty isn’t that bad, only a few people are really poor”. I think that he hasn’t studied countries enough because countries in Africa have people that can’t even afford food, clean water and clothing as it is stated in the booklet where it said, "our water hole dried up". Where he said people just want us to “feel sorry for them”, they just want us to help them because it was our fault in most cases that they got in that situation, because when we were a empire they were self dependent but we told them to grow cotton but as the years have gone on the cotton market has crashed and they are no longer self dependent. He also said “charity begins at home because not everyone can afford a car”. A car is not important compared to food. People can live without cars, but people cant live without food it is not possible. World poverty is a growing issue I think mr I. Amok should be educated more on this situation. He may not realise all factors that are involved. In my opinion poverty is a massive factor in the third world countries and everywhere else that it affects and mr I. Amok does not understand it as he has shown in the letter. He goes that he heard somewhere that there is enough food in the world to feed everyone, this is true but the problem is the 20% of rich people in the world use 80% of the resources there isn’t much left for the other 80% of the people. He also talks about his own experiences in these kind of countries and the type of food he had in his hotel, this is absolute rubbish and the only reason his food was so good was because he is paying a lot of money for it. Where he visited it is probably in “relative poverty” because some sections on the country are doing ok, that’s tourism section, but the rest is in poverty that is the locals. The other sort of poverty is “absolute poverty” that is when they cant affording the basic necessities to survive; it is also described as living below the poverty line, they are never going to get above the poverty if they cant make no money especially trading with other countries.
