Everyone should be made aware of these statistics through the major media networks!
If you’re aware of them, Robert, chances are that “everyone” else can also access these same statistics about sub-Sahara Africa.
Were you aware of them? Is the average citizen aware of them? Do the major news networks have a moral obligation to report them to the masses? These stats are worldwide, not just Africa.
I doubt that the average citizen is aware of these stats. I had to dig through the Internet to get them for myself. How would the average citizen get these stats?
Because they’re apparently more widely available than you believe, or were aware of before you “dug through” to find what most people do know. Everybody I know who has at least a basic education and who is literate does know. You can keep doubting; I have no control over your “doubts.”
Your thumbnails are misleading, because they come from particular areas which other parts of the world have little influence in or control over. They are not representative of the “worldwide” statistics.
I can’t help the degree of ignorance of your students. I’m a teacher, too, and I find the opposite. I guess my students are exceptionally informed. In any case, neither your anecdote nor his “difficulty finding information” are projectile, statistically.
Actually it would probably make billions more people poor. Ever read up on the church policy banning interest and the disastrous economic consequences that resulted?
Where did you learn of these stats? Where does the average citizen get them?
By reading.
For your edification ewtn.com/library/ENCYC/B14VIXPE.htm
I’d guess that’s as safe a bet as guessing that my students are exceptionally ignorant. I’m actually shocked that your students (college level, I assume?) are informed. But of course, I’m pleasantly shocked (so long as we’re talking about specifics regarding world poverty, that is, and not simply that world poverty exists). Aside from my own students, I work with thousands more through a campus human rights organization – and the ignorance found among all of our campuses (both urban and suburban, serving an incredibly disparate population) is routine.
I think I said the same thing?
In any case, I’d love some concrete evidence that Americans are typically knowledgeable about world poverty. I’m glad your experience has been the opposite, but you’re describing the polar opposite of my own experience. I’m assuming evidence demonstrating the knowledge you’re describing is the only solid answer to the question.I don’t have to even go so far as college. My high school students appear to be better informed than your college students, possibly because they are more internationally aware than yours.
And I’d like some concrete evidence, besides your anecdotes and your reporting, that they are not knowledgeable.
And to what do you attribute this exceptional international knowledge?
Reading what? The Internet?
Perhaps they’re reading the less than 1% of stories that actually focus on poverty?
Or maybe the average citizen suddenly gets a burning desire to do a Google search on extreme poverty?
Reading international news from various sources, both print and online.
Can you provide an Internet link to these types of stats from a major news network? Do a Google search on “extreme poverty” and see how many come up from a major news network.