Global Poverty and Solutions- Misconceptions

7/26/09
Last week the teacher of the class was not able to be there. Rather than canceling the group's second meeting, we had a substitute who showed us the movie Slumdog Millionaire, which portrays conditions of extreme poverty in India. The film was very interesting and we spent some time discussing it in class this week. After this, we talked about the misconceptions that people often have about developing countries. For example, people might mistakenly believe that developing nations suffer extreme poverty because they are lazy, because of their different cultures. Another misconception is that other countries are growing at our expense. In fact, the entire world is growing, but some areas are not growing as quickly as others. Because of this, the world must work together as a whole in order to improve conditions globally.