Don't get me wrong, I love fireworks as much as the next person. However, living in a third world country, knowing the basic needs a human requires puts a certain perspective spin upon everything I see an experience. Want to know how much the Australian Government spent on the New Years fireworks? How does a measly $5 Million sound?!
Five Million dollars is ALOT of money, no matter where you're from. In Bangladesh, it is the equivalent of Thirty Million Taka. 30 million! That would fund most of Bangladesh for quite a while! And Sydney spent it in two twenty minute sessions of fireworks!! In my mind, that does not compute. And yet, in the Western culture I'm currently in, it would be rare for someone to bat an eye at these sort of financial figures being thrown around.
Justification?!
I can't say I've 'settled' into the western culture...
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Friday, January 1, 2010
Mixed contempt...
Don't get me wrong, I love fireworks as much as the next person. However, living in a third world country, knowing the basic needs a human requires puts a certain perspective spin upon everything I see an experience. Want to know how much the Australian Government spent on the New Years fireworks? How does a measly $5 Million sound?!
Five Million dollars is ALOT of money, no matter where you're from. In Bangladesh, it is the equivalent of Thirty Million Taka. 30 million! That would fund most of Bangladesh for quite a while! And Sydney spent it in two twenty minute sessions of fireworks!! In my mind, that does not compute. And yet, in the Western culture I'm currently in, it would be rare for someone to bat an eye at these sort of financial figures being thrown around.
Justification?!
I can't say I've 'settled' into the western culture...
Five Million dollars is ALOT of money, no matter where you're from. In Bangladesh, it is the equivalent of Thirty Million Taka. 30 million! That would fund most of Bangladesh for quite a while! And Sydney spent it in two twenty minute sessions of fireworks!! In my mind, that does not compute. And yet, in the Western culture I'm currently in, it would be rare for someone to bat an eye at these sort of financial figures being thrown around.
Justification?!
I can't say I've 'settled' into the western culture...
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