Posted on 01/17/2018 12:25:10 AM PST by lowbuck
My son went on a class/mission trip to Ethiopia and taught English as a Second Language at the mission school. He made life-long friends in Ethiopia and his college accepted students from the mission school to further their education. With that said, that experience made him appreciate all that we have in America and not only material things but cultural as well as our heritage.
One suspects, had she not spent a year in Africa, today she would be an insufferable MSNBC watching know-it-all liberal. Foreign travel definitely gives one perspective.
On the other hand, San Francisco embrasures the fecal environment with open defecation ...
Decades ago I was posed to a real s-hole requiring the use of both arms for all the shots ... over 20 of them as I recall.
“With that said, that experience made him appreciate all that we have in America and not only material things but cultural as well as our heritage.”
Agreed. My travels with the Navy and other adventures have caused me to think God for being an American.
Check out my tag line. When it is time to “bug out” it is nice to have the Blue Card!
I know two guys from my shop in Germany, went TDY to Ghana. They said the only way they would ever go back to Ghana, would be in a straitjacket.
Give me a freaking break, Pollyanna. You just spent half a dozen paragraphs describing FGM freak shows and a culture of idle men who demand idolatry.
Who elected her to speak - or even think - for all Americans? Who says many Americans - make that most Americans - don't regard family as the most precious thing in their lives?
AT fell down badly publishing this rot.
“Decades ago I was posed to a real s-hole requiring the use of both arms for all the shots ... over 20 of them as I recall”
And you took a malaria pill every day, and you didn’t drink the water, nor have ice in your drinks.
Where I was we had a small dock that went out to a body of water. At the end of the dock was a bench with a toilet seat on it. The first time I used it, I’m sitting out at the end of the stock on the toilet seat (no curtain or anything), and I let one go and suddenly the water underneath the doc started roiling quite vigorously (which startled me) and it was the catfish feasting on my leavings. So needless to say I didn’t eat the catfish either!
An acquaintance was there for the same thing (for a very short time; she became extremely ill and had to come back permanently); she described the superstitions of even the “educated” people as bizarre - while those same people mocked the “more-superstitious” underclass.
Disgusting and frankly, hopeless.
A toilet seat!! Wow you had it good! We either squatted in the bushes or in the salt water being careful that no man eating & sea-going alligators were present ... leaves were the choice of wipe.
would it have been different if President Trump used “A fecalized environment”?
It can, but much depends upon the individual and their morality. When I was an app developer working for Sears, a friend there went on a trip to India. He was the type that wore sandals and had an affinity for all natural things, etc. After he had left the majority wrote him off believing that once there, he would go native and never come back. Much to their surprise he returned completely disgusted by what he encountered and heralded the much superior culture of the US.
Great article, thanks for posting it!
Thank you! Good article. My only disagreement is that Americans think the Protestant Work Ethic is alive and well in Senegal! Any American who thinks that is an idiot.
This guy wrote the first article I ever read on this topic. It blew my mind.
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I can only imagine what we need to go to a real “shit-hole” place. LOL
The shots did not protect you from amoebic dysentery. Eating any fresh produce meant you got it. Virtually everyone who went there got it and it’s a nasty bit of business to get rid of. Afghans referred to America as the “land of the hard stool”. So I guess you could call it a “shit-hole”.
Several years ago, Al Gore’s Current TV had a program on the problem with open defecation in SE Asia. The term Sh*t” was used over and over again, along with video of people squatting and wiping with their left hand,no leaves.
Which all reminded me of a poem I saw on a restroom wall.
“In days of old when Knights were bold,
And toilets weren’t invented.
They dropped their load on the side of the road,
And journeyed on contented.”
But then the ancients made a religion of it...Baal Peor.
I was charged with visiting a missionary to Nigeria to inventory the goods to be shipped to a small village in a 40 container to prepare the manifest. The goods ranged from a big Caterpillar diesel generator to syringes and other small medical supplies. The visit was made to a cabbage warehouse in western North Carolina mountains during the cabbage off season .
The effort was organized and the physician missionary was supported by five small mountain baptist congregations. The container load of stuff was for the purpose of opening a clinic.
Although the ship called in nigeria, the container was waylaid and never made it to the back country village. The missionary had to return to America
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