Picking Sides
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Taking Sides on Controversy
In today's society, the battle for human rights and equality wages in every country throughout the world. However, many of our countries are poverty-stricken, hungry, and unsanitary. These lesser-developed countries, especially those in Africa and parts of Asia have problems with population growth, water contamination, poor infrastructure, and malnutrition, whick can lead to illness and economic chaos. Why is this? What are people doing about it? How long will this last? These are universal questions that people from all around the globe ask every day. Some people say that it is the responsibility of developed countries, or the north, to support these developing nations so tehy have a financial backbone to jumpstart their economy. In actuality, northern countries have been spoon-feeding these undeveloped populations so they can simply continue to exist in the same state they are now. This is a temporary fix that might seem noble, but only hurts needy civilizations downt the road, These countries have come to expect foreign aid to sruvive, and without it, could very easily cease to exist...