What The West Gets Wrong About Africa’s Middle Class | 360º VR - General

[video=youtube;CQDxpDYejr0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQDxpDYejr0[/video] Quite interesting since western media mainly focuses on the most bottom misery of Africa. It basically paints a generalizing picture that all of Africa is just starving people somewhere in the savanna, which isn't true. Just some insight here for the people who are curious. [editline]a[/editline] Video has been fixed!

[img]https://i.gyazo.com/08d46f980d589075b10de3ae0784a056.png[/img] Loving the video

Yeah, 360 is here to stay. It really changes your perspective on things.

Africa's middle class looks warped

What even is the point of 360 for a video like this?

It seems to be working again [QUOTE=RaTcHeT302;50513931]What even is the point of 360 for a video like this?[/QUOTE] It's overall an interesting concept and makes things look more alive? I think this channel will do more videos in this format from now on.

[QUOTE=Retardation;50514754]it still looks like a poor shithole where instead of people outright starving, you have people almost starving. wow, sure opened my eyes. this looks like some badly made propaganda video i'd expect to see from NK.[/QUOTE] Of course Africa is poor, but there is a world of a difference between naked people starving to death in a mudhut village in the middle of nowhere and this. Also, if you actually watched the video you would know they aren't even "almost starving". At least you picked a suitable nickname for yourself.

[QUOTE=Retardation;50514911]yeah, a scripted scene showing a family eating lunch conveniently resembling a suburban american (easily relatable) family sure is enough evidence that things aren't really that bad in africa [B]what is even the purpose of this video[/B] other than trying to portray africa as "a tragically poor place but not THAT tragically poor of a place"?[/QUOTE] The purpose is to make people stop generalizing the entirety of Africa as a plague ridden shithole. While it is true that Africa presents many problems, none will be solved by just thinking ''fuck it'', hoping that the problems will fix themselves.

[QUOTE=Retardation;50514911]yeah, a scripted scene showing a family eating lunch conveniently resembling a suburban american (easily relatable) family[/QUOTE] Lmao, do you think there is any other way to eat a meal with your family?

I lived in Nairobi, Kenya from 98 to 2000, and it was pretty much just this. Lots of depressing poverty, but still enough resources to go around.

[QUOTE=Retardation;50514911]yeah, a scripted scene showing a family eating lunch conveniently resembling a suburban american (easily relatable) family sure is enough evidence that things aren't really that bad in africa what is even the purpose of this video other than trying to portray africa as "a tragically poor place but not THAT tragically poor of a place"?[/QUOTE] You've never been to Africa, have you.

Video is still broken for me...anywhere else I can see this in old-fashioned 2D??

[QUOTE=Retardation;50514911]yeah, a scripted scene showing a family eating lunch conveniently resembling a suburban american (easily relatable) family sure is enough evidence that things aren't really that bad in africa what is even the purpose of this video other than trying to portray africa as "a tragically poor place but not THAT tragically poor of a place"?[/QUOTE] Look guy, there's being contrarian, and then there's being...well, you. Yeah, I get it. Question everything. See the hidden motive behind everything. Yadda yadda yadda. Guess what? Still missing the point of the video. It doesn't have some ulterior motive created from the African Ministry of Propaganda (which totally exists), it's supposed to inform people that there [I]is[/I] a slowly rising middle class of individuals across Africa. And it's five minutes. Do you really go into these kinds of videos expecting a fucking documentary?