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Frair, in all countries, it is the poor who are resisting....
The rich want fewer children, more control over their money and more control over their lives and work. Like that Carnaval song, the poor's happiness is to make babies and the thought of taking that away, brings sadness to them. Children help when older to bring more money in, to work in the house and fields and streets. Fewer children feels like less riches, or opportunities for wealth.
The rich whites in this country complained decades ago, when birth control first spread around, that the blacks and chicanos weren't using it. They said that the whole country would soon have no white people in it and tried to scare everyone with these prejudices, it is the way of the world, I fear. I hear this periodically from some European nations, talking about their immigrant populations. An old complaint.
They say that the whole world will be full of uneducated brown skinned people. I say that if they improved the teaching in schools everyone would be educated and, they will all probably be brown skinned in this future they envision, but in the USA we all spend money and time trying to 'tan' in salons, on beaches and under sunlamps. Now they sell fake tan in a cream that you can spread on your skin. We are a very confused people this way. Fascinating contradictions.
posted by
benzinha
on September 23, 2004 at 8:15 PM
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and so full of people.
Here in the Philippines, the poor are the ones resisting contraception and abortion.
posted by
Friar__Tuck
on September 22, 2004 at 4:35 AM
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Friar, the photos remind me of Mexico and Brazil, so green and so poor.
I hope that the people do get deeds to the land. I know that they need them to survive any new government's decision to displace them later....
posted by
benzinha
on September 22, 2004 at 1:03 AM
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