The Way I See It #288
“My cousin in Tibet is an illiterate subsistence farmer. By accident of birth, I was raised in the West and have a Ph.D. The task of our generation is to cut through the illusion that we inhabit separate worlds. Only then will we find the heart to rise to the daunting but urgent challenges of global disparity.”
– Losang Rabgey, Ph.D.
National Geographic Emerging Explorer and co-founder of Machik, a nonprofit helping communities on the Tibetan plateau.
Today’s order is a grande red eye in a venti cup.
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This comment, as it stands, bugs me. It’s probable that there is more to what you want to say that will fit on the back of the cup, but as it is written, it sounds very high-brow and snobbish. It implies an illiterate Tibetan farmer is less than a Western PhD holder on your scale and must somehow be saved from his “disparity”. It strikes me that most farmers anywhere in the world would consider us the disparate ones for going to college so we can spend 10 hours a day in front of a monitor!
well… i think it would be great to attend college for free… gaining access to services that people in america busted their asses over for years and years.
is there some country we can go to that discriminates against it’s own, providing resources for those who have not contributed to its own existence? if so, cool…
maybe starbucks should stick to making coffee?
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