Watch the video and leave a comment. You have to summarize the content using your own words to describe the paralelism between the two worlds shown. What do you think the author's intention is?
The video shows how different teenagers “worries” can be depending on living in a developed country or in a developing one. It is focused on a teenage girl who lives in Australia. This girl and her brother are complaining for materials things such as tooth paste, cereals, going to school in an old car or not having the newest video game machine in the market. For every complaint they do it is shown the reality of teenagers in Sudan and how terrible their situation is. They can´t go to school or use any shoes, they don´t even know if they are going to have food for the next day.
I think the intention of the author is let us see that there are more important things to worry about than the space in our ipod or having a double bed, when the fact is that in the world there are people who don´t have the most basic things to live.
This video shows how different living in a develop country than living in an undevelop one is. It tells the story of a teenager who lives in Australia and who needs a lot of material things to be happy. Meanwhile it shows who people live in Sudan without necessary subsistences, like water or food.
In my opinion, the author's intention is aware us that are too many problems to worry about instead of thinking only about theirselves.
This video shows something that we already know, something which touches our soul and creates a sense of guilt that appears at the same rate then subsides.
The differences between developed countries and non developed ones are evident since childhood and affect the most basic things in our life. While teenagers from developed countries argue over trifles as toothpaste or the car seat that they take up and consider as a great problem how much free space their ipods have, there are other boys and girls who are trying to survive.
From my point of view, the author is trying to raise public awareness of this problem. But the question is ... Will be this feeling of guilt with us until dinner time?
This video shows how in the economically developed countries the relation with the reality is totally dominated, mediated for the material things. In our comfortable homes, all our complacent thoughts are directed to satisfy our selfish desires (ipods, clothes, cars, houses), forgetting the importance of the relationships. The affluenza is an epidemic disease that only produces unsatisfied, isolated people and the teenagers are the main victims because they are exposed to the mass media and their clear or hide publicity, continuously . On the other side of the world o perhaps, in the next corner of our neighborhood, people are suffering hungry or difficulties, and we can "see" but we don’t do anything, closing our eyes to the injustice. Besides, we will buy more things next time to cover our empty. The affluenza is spreading quickly.....
It´s interesting because when the video started I thought that the main point will be the situation of the australian teenagers, whose suffered affluenza. But when the speaker told us about the situation in Sudan I was shocked. I know it sounds stupid because all of us know what is happenning with children in developing countries but watch the comparison in videos like this is shocker. For instance, when we can see the australian run to the car to sit in front while the other children have to push a cart or, as much, going cycling. More shocking is when australian children are in the supermarket, and after at home worried about their iphones and videogames while sudan children have no toys, no house, no water (no water means no food)... Also we can see how the australian boy have seven pairs of sports shoes, and the sudan children don´t have any one. Seeing all those mothers crying and a girl saying that they need your (my)help make fell guilty, as Jorge said...
I guess that the intention of this video is promoted any kind of help for this people (do something) and make us think about our priorities and real needs.
The video shows how different teenagers “worries” can be depending on living in a developed country or in a developing one. It is focused on a teenage girl who lives in Australia. This girl and her brother are complaining for materials things such as tooth paste, cereals, going to school in an old car or not having the newest video game machine in the market. For every complaint they do it is shown the reality of teenagers in Sudan and how terrible their situation is. They can´t go to school or use any shoes, they don´t even know if they are going to have food for the next day.
ReplyDeleteI think the intention of the author is let us see that there are more important things to worry about than the space in our ipod or having a double bed, when the fact is that in the world there are people who don´t have the most basic things to live.
This video shows how different living in a develop country than living in an undevelop one is. It tells the story of a teenager who lives in Australia and who needs a lot of material things to be happy. Meanwhile it shows who people live in Sudan without necessary subsistences, like water or food.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, the author's intention is aware us that are too many problems to worry about instead of thinking only about theirselves.
This video shows something that we already know, something which touches our soul and creates a sense of guilt that appears at the same rate then subsides.
ReplyDeleteThe differences between developed countries and non developed ones are evident since childhood and affect the most basic things in our life. While teenagers from developed countries argue over trifles as toothpaste or the car seat that they take up and consider as a great problem how much free space their ipods have, there are other boys and girls who are trying to survive.
From my point of view, the author is trying to raise public awareness of this problem. But the question is ... Will be this feeling of guilt with us until dinner time?
This video shows how in the economically developed countries the relation with the reality is totally dominated, mediated for the material things. In our comfortable homes, all our complacent thoughts are directed to satisfy our selfish desires (ipods, clothes, cars, houses), forgetting the importance of the relationships.
ReplyDeleteThe affluenza is an epidemic disease that only produces unsatisfied, isolated people and the teenagers are the main victims because they are exposed to the mass media and their clear or hide publicity, continuously .
On the other side of the world o perhaps, in the next corner of our neighborhood, people are suffering hungry or difficulties, and we can "see" but we don’t do anything, closing our eyes to the injustice. Besides, we will buy more things next time to cover our empty. The affluenza is spreading quickly.....
It´s interesting because when the video started I thought that the main point will be the situation of the australian teenagers, whose suffered affluenza. But when the speaker told us about the situation in Sudan I was shocked. I know it sounds stupid because all of us know what is happenning with children in developing countries but watch the comparison in videos like this is shocker. For instance, when we can see the australian run to the car to sit in front while the other children have to push a cart or, as much, going cycling. More shocking is when australian children are in the supermarket, and after at home worried about their iphones and videogames while sudan children have no toys, no house, no water (no water means no food)... Also we can see how the australian boy have seven pairs of sports shoes, and the sudan children don´t have any one. Seeing all those mothers crying and a girl saying that they need your (my)help make fell guilty, as Jorge said...
DeleteI guess that the intention of this video is promoted any kind of help for this people (do something) and make us think about our priorities and real needs.