CAN'T BE MORE TRUE...

abre les ojos · Guru

CAN'T BE MORE TRUE...

Pope · Guru

ABRE,who is to blame.This issue of WFP shouting loud about mw was cosmetic.Just to make their western brothers get jobs.The money spent by DFID would have gone to fert.subsidy utmost.

Thank you for your unfo, I have printed and hanged on my notice board.

But one thing for the reporter,mouse is like a bird and I dont think its wrong to feast on it.

-- Edited by Pope at 13:09, 2005-08-30

abre les ojos · Guru

The Mouse thing is exactly my point. It shows western ignorance an foolishness. They seem to think people eat mice because they are hungry and can't afford other sources of food. As usual I have e-mailed the author of that story to explain that to him in somewhat harsh terms.

game · Guru

Abre man

the article is so biased and streotypical,they cant expect the whole world to eat english meals,we also have our own African food,the same way the chinese eat snails is the same some africans eat mice,why do they have to degrade our food in such a way.that article is so unproffessional and so lacking from a journalist point of view.

abre les ojos · Guru

I know. I was furious when I read it. I think they call it casual racism (the always have words for these things) as opposed to "real" racism or institutional racism.

Makes you wonder what they talk about when they're alone with each other...

amdala · Senior Member

ha koma mzungu ameneyunso, iye sakudziwa kuti kuChina amadya agalu, achule ndiamphaka? ndiponso wofuna kumuuza kuti khoswe ndimbewa pali kusiyana ndithu...

game · Guru

Andala

mzungu ameneyu ndi tchende la tchentche ndithu,i love reading the articles from the bbc but this one was so revolting to the african race malawi i particular.

Pope · Guru

Game wati chani koma akanawerenga mzunguyo sakanazabwerezanso.But how can he be disgracing on a normal thing like this.Why did he talk to his driver and learn more about our culture.Should we talk bad of them.Let us write him and tell him off.

abre les ojos · Guru

There is a thin line between that type of ignorance and plain racism. Maybe it is the same thing. It is the mentality that MOST white people have of Africa when they visit it. In fact it is the attitude most white folk have of the rest of the world. Why? Simply because they believe that THEY are the standard. They are the epitome of existence. That all other people should be aspiring to be like the west. Anything else is primitive.

I also blame his driver for not explaining what it was and how normal it is to see kids selling mice. I like his stupid, almost smug references that "he was a vegeterian". Well, la di da. We in Africa don't have such luxuries. We eat everything....

CJ · Newbie

it aint our problem that the british have no delicacies. their food is one of the crapiest on earth, nothing special at all. so it aint no suprise that they dis our food but dont let that get us down, we're africans and as africans we have traditions, including our traditional foods, thats what distinguishes us from those idiots.

what kind of traditional food is bangers and mash, and they have the audesity to bring us down like that, what a bunch of f**!**s.

Black Panther · Senior Member

ABRE, I want to give you Props for writing to the author on behalf EACH and EVERY Malawian - this stuff upsets me too. I had to write a letter to one journalist one month ago when they called Malawi a city, I asked her how a journalist can miseducate so many? she apologised to all Malawians.

anyways, sometimes it seems like we dont have the time to do thing like this , but next time the guy wrotes something he will think twice before writring some b/s...

abre les ojos · Guru

I spend a lot of my hours writing to newspapers and TV stations especially the BBC (you won't believe it but they actually make the most blunders). Either it be about depictions of black people that I find prejudiced or when producers don't do their research and put out some rubbish like the one you just said. I'm sure broadcasting standards know me by name now.

Pope · Guru

I need to be educated why the qeens land could send such a lunatic to cover a project in Malawi.By being vegetarian is he telling us that the allowances will be low or is he going to donate to Feed the nation fund? Good for him Dr Banda is gone.

In other ways he should say we are rich in natural resources

abre les ojos · Guru

The job of foreign reporters is not to say how great a country is doing. It is to show how better off they are by comparing them to others.

The BBC has one of the most advanced propaganda in the world. Their choice of stories, words, the way they juxtapose images and words; all to reflect a particular point of view be it political or otherwise. That story is just an example of one of them. During the build up to the Iraq war you could never have a story of Saddam and Iraq without hearing the words Bin-Laden or 9/11. No matter what the context, it puts a relationship between the two, where the wasn't one. A bit like bombing Zimababwe because of a rebel in Sierra Leone.

The American media is exactly the same even 'though it is less sophisticated (American audiences are less sophisticated). But the effects are the same.