Mike Poole has picked up on the question of “knowing poverty“, an earlier topic in UnderstandingSociety, in a very interesting post on his blog, greetingsearthlings. He adds a really valuable international perspective on the topic of how we understand poverty if we don’t experience it directly — he’s Australian, trained in Southeast Asian Studies at ANU, living in Hong Kong, and very involved in the conditions of Filipino people living and working in Hong Kong.
This is a really great example of how the internationalism of the web can really make it possible for people to gain a better understanding of the human issues that most people face — if they want to! Wouldn’t it be great if a serious international discussion of the rice crisis and interruptions of food security in many countries got going in thoughtful postings like Mike’s.
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