On 5/21/2018 8:06 PM, Eric Stevens wrote:
On Mon, 21 May 2018 14:36:56 -0400, PeterN
wrote:

On 5/20/2018 5:53 PM, Eric Stevens wrote:
On Sat, 19 May 2018 21:17:04 -0400, Davoud wrote:

Eric Stevens:
The world is full of genuinely poor people who can never aspire to
owning a smart phone.

Having lived in S.E. Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa from 1966
to 1993, I have some small degree of awareness of poverty and
deprivation around the world. Nonetheless, among all but the very
poorest of the poor, by which I mean persons like those that Nachtwey
photographed in The Sudan, smartphones are quite common, even where
individuals can't afford them but groups of people or whole villages
can afford to share one.

I would regard a community which had to pool their funds to buy a
smartphone as poor. In such a community there is no hope for an
individual who wants to buy a smartphone or camera.


I think your comment is a bigoted reflection of your colonial heritage.
Do you still believe in the white man's burden?

I don't understand what you think your comment has to do with my
comment about standards of poverty. I stand by my original statement
that "The world is full of genuinely poor people who can never aspire
to owning a smart phone". That is an observation which has nothing at
all to do with colonial heritage or the white man's burden.


Please read again what you wrote. "In such a community there is NO
HOPE......" (emphasis supplied,)
Perhaps you did not mean that, but that's how it sounded to me.


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PeterN