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...themselves without accepting responsibility for the consequences. The same kind of selfishness is undermining our society. We want what we want, and we want it now. If that hurts someone else, well, tough. I hope the film's stars and producers will be donating their profits to help the poor and abused. Danny Lean, Brisbane, Queensland
King Abdullah's seemingly generous offer of a billion dollars from OPEC countries (plus $500 million from his own treasury) to help poor countries cope is also nothing to be grateful for. It amounts to backdoor price discrimination: charging different customers different amounts to extract the maximum from each...
...particularly good moment to be a poor foreigner abroad anywhere: witness last month's violent xenophobic riots in South Africa. "When people are troubled by rising food prices, there are two easy scapegoats: foreigners and the government," Guterres says. "Xenophobia is a very worrying problem, and it's widespread: we've seen refugees murdered in Ukraine, Russia and Western Europe...
...weaver or a cobbler. Although the caste system was outlawed in India's founding constitution 60 years ago, caste still shapes the lives of millions of people who continue to live in close-knit caste communities throughout the country. Such clans are especially common among India's rural poor and urban slum dwellers. Many urban dwellers, like the people of Kathputli, brought their rural traditions with them when they migrated to the cities...
...organizing neighborhoods by occupation confined to the poor. Even a handful of the more prosperous residents of India's modern cities have for years lived in neighborhoods composed on clearly discernible occupational lines - doctors, town planners, academics, journalists, lawyers, government bureaucrats and diplomats all living among their own. Most such neighborhoods have their roots in a decades-old government housing program that sells public land at below-market prices to cooperative societies, many of which are based on their members' occupation...