First World Problems

I would hope that anyone who watches this hears the echo of their own complaints and realizes how silly it is to be frustrated with things in our day to day life. I remember a conversation with a friend on campus while eating at a dining common buffet style. Imagine how you would describe a buffet to a third world person. “there is a room where you can take any food and as much food as you want, until you’re full.” And that we clean a gallons of water just to use in a toilet .. I may be getting side tracked from the point of this weeks readings but I think this video still ties into a larger theme of social privilege that devices give us. The poor without technology are becoming even more distant socially than ever before.

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  1. ShannonMartine

    This video was difficult to watch. The first world problems hashtag was slightly comically at first but this really solidifies how socially irresponsible it was in relation to the harsh realities of the third world. I always saw complaining about trivial or meaningless problems on social media as tantamount to standing on a street corner and yelling your problems into oblivion- don’t do it, no one cares – but this exhibits the harmful aspect of that complaining as well.

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