I swear, I will throw up all over my home library if I read one more short story where a European protagonist loses his or her job because of the crisis and realizes how much better off people in Africa are because they are not materialistic and possess the true riches of their spirituality.
I understand that the crisis is traumatic and everybody deals with trauma in their own way. I wish, however, that people tried not to be such total pricks about it.
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What “crisis” are you referring to? (This is an honest question — I don’t get the reference.)
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The recession, the one that drove up unemployment numbers a few years ago.
“I cried because I had no Oscar, until I met the man who had no Golden Globe.”
Old Hollywood saying,
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Thanks.
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The book I’m working on is titled “The Literature of the Crisis” because it’s about the economic crisis in Spain.
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I’ve never heard this saying but I love it. Thank you!
What Americans know as the recession, in Europe is called the crisis. But yes, it’s the same event.
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Except…. the flood of sub-Saharan Africans fleeing African rule (temporarily eclipsed by Muslims fleeing Muslim rule through Turkey) have extremely materialistic goals.
A large percentage of those trying to get to Europe through Libya are from Senegal which is prosperous (by SS AFrican standards) and at peace, but they want those technical and social goodies and are willing to risk death at sea to get them.
People in first world countries idealizing the simple spirituality and contentment of those in the third world are truly one of the more nausea inducing things in the world.
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I can’t speak for continental Europeans. But, Ghana is a lot more materialistic than the US in many ways. Politicians for instance here have no ideology what so ever and only do things for money. This extends from the president on down.
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“People in first world countries idealizing the simple spirituality and contentment of those in the third world are truly one of the more nausea inducing things in the world.”
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