I live in Korea. And there are a lot of people suffering from the "irregular jobs"; they often get injured by the company owners, and even get killed while protesting. This IS a very serious problem that all Koreans should be aware of, and fight with, because this is not right. Well, I'm not experiencing that. My parents are both professors and my family is relatively wealthy. And my grandparents don't care about those workers. But does that mean the problem is not as serious? Does that sound like a right logic and persuading reasoning? I don't think so. She seems more likely to be embarrassed, rather than worried of the fact that her country is being portrayed as a "hellhole", while she's living quite well. I don't think this has anything to do with "educating" myself of how wonderful Uganda is to visit.
Whether the video is exaggerated or not, whether there's 100000000 children suffering or only 30000 suffering, something wrong should not be happening in the world. Kony is definitely doing something wrong. Justice should lie on everyone in every matter, regardless of how many people are involved in it.
KONY 2012 from INVISIBLE CHILDREN on Vimeo.
I definitely agree with you! There are other key crucial problems that we should fix other than the Kony issue!! But in the case of the Ugandan girl I believe that she is the daughter of a Ugandan immigrant, so she technically is American wouldn't she be? Many of what she says can actually not be true;my parents were Korean immigrants but I really didn't know much about Korea despite travelling to Korea on summer vacations quite often.
답글삭제I honestly think that the Ugandan government and the people living within Uganda would have better knowledge than this girl, and if they indeed had something against the US Military NATO forces or even the Ugandan government looking for Kony, I believe that they would have already shown strong opinions against such activity.
Hi Jane! I totally agree with you and Namdo. I think a lot of people should try reading and watching the video and start ACTING
답글삭제Hi Jane! I agree with you all. And I also disagree with you all.
답글삭제I agree about the "Ugandan Girl" who isn't actually Ugandan. I think we want to listen to her because she looks African, but you are right: she's not the best one to speak on Uganda's behalf. However, she does raise a few good points (and a few not so good ones), and it doesn't matter who is saying them. Kony2012 is full of holes and inaccurate. So while we SHOULD focus on Africa, and we SHOULD catch Kony, we should also look beyond one fancy video and figure out what's really going on. I've watched tons of videos, and the one which convinced me that Invisible Children is a flawed organization is the one where Ugandans in the village most affected by Kony throw rocks at the screen when they see the video. I applaude Jason Russell for making the video and promoting awareness, but he also tells us to donate money for more videos and to put up posters everywhere.
Anyways - great to see you are the first student to respond, and it's also great to see you "get angry at this rotten society" :).
I definitely agree with Mr. Garrioch! I've been watching and reading quite a lot about this, and I believe that it is a definite fact that they are oversimplifying the problem of Kony. It is definitely good that they are fostering awareness, as Mr. Garrioch had said, but we need to look at the Kony problem in a HOLISTIC point of view, instead of just one side of the problem. In such way, I honestly believe the problem can be solved most efficiently.
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