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- adiggityam, on 02/28/2009, -2/+35I've sent 5 orphaned children to 3 different TV game-shows, and I'm proud of it.
- ohplease, on 02/28/2009, -2/+26
Just wait til I'm finished making SLUMBEAVER BILLIONAIRE about the mean streets of Canada's poorest slums - GREEDOnvrFIRED, on 02/28/2009, -1/+23Hold on now, try not to be so cynical. Keep in mind that the article is talking about "a SURGE in Indian child sponsorship inquiries." People have been sponsoring these kids since long before this movie came along. The movie has just helped to pique the interest of some more people.
- manzplan, on 02/28/2009, -4/+20funny, it took a movie to bring attention to something like this, which should have been "common knowledge" years ago.
- ravensncrows, on 02/28/2009, -2/+18Now we just need to make a movie about the slums of Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso,
Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Chad,
Comoros, Congo, Djibouti,
Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau,
Haiti, Kiribati, Laos Lesotho, Liberia,
Madagascar, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar,
Nepal, Niger, Rwanda, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone,
Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sudan, Togo, Tuvalu, Uganda, Tanzania, Vanuatu, Yemen and Zambia
but first, The Plight of Diggers; Aging Virgins of The Internet - GREEDOnvrFIRED, on 02/28/2009, -0/+7Oh and you are there administering vaccinations?
Giving money isn't doing nothing... It is giving money.
If everybody who gives money instead went there to lend a hand they would find there were no resources because some fool convinced everyone to stop sending money. - gacorley, on 02/28/2009, -0/+6Eh, people are a bit too cynical here, eh? No one can care about everyone in the world at once, so whether it be a movie or a book or a news story, an effect like this from a major media event is generally a good thing.
- Shuk, on 02/28/2009, -2/+6That's amazing. Just goes to show that the power of movies can make individuals do good things. Kudos to everyone involved in the movie making process. Those child actors, especially, since their heartfelt acting inspired these people to adopt. They've not only risen themselves out of the slums, but risen many more.
- jer21, on 02/28/2009, -1/+4That sounds like a really bad porno.
- TrevorBelmont, on 02/28/2009, -0/+3101 Dalmatians
- iwinuwin20002, on 03/01/2009, -0/+2There's too much written and discussed about this movie. But at least something good is coming out of it.
- acliffhang3r, on 03/01/2009, -1/+3Nobody is forcing or asking you to do anything. So please shut up with the fake indignation.
- inactive, on 03/02/2009, -1/+3Wasn't the extreme and hopeless poverty shown in the movie terrifying? How could that happen? Here's part of the answer:
Forty-two years of SOCIALISM !!!!!!!!!!
After the British left, and the nation of India was formed in 1948, they operated under a form of socialism for 42 years, until the early 90s.
The system was called, by it's opponents, LICENSE RAJ.
"The architect of the system of License Raj was ...Nehru, India's first Prime Minister. Inspired by the economy in the Soviet Union, he implemented mixed economy in India. ... Private players could manufacture goods only with official licenses. The quantity of goods they were allowed to produce was determined by the license regime, not by free-market demand." wikipedia.com
There were so many licenses required to do business that nothing got done. And the little that did get done involved bribing bureaucrats to get these pointless licenses.
No business growth, no jobs. No jobs, no income. No income, grinding poverty. - DrLeePhD, on 03/01/2009, -0/+2somebody buried this? how could you disagree?! Please, enlighten us with a comment.
- inactive, on 03/01/2009, -0/+2Of course 'them' = the indians. I got what you were referring to. You're just obviously oblivious to how much of a retard you are. It's nice to be able to say 'let them deal with their own problems!' when you come from a country that doesn't really any, and if they do, you're totally unaware of them and not doing anything about it.
- DrLeePhD, on 03/01/2009, -0/+2Twenty years from now they may have a more promising future in India than here. Just for thought.
- kelliillek, on 03/01/2009, -0/+2Slumdog Millionaire is to the surge of Indian child sponsorship as Top Gun was to the surge of Navy recruits and bomber jackets in the 80's. India will have a rude awakening when this "fad" abruptly ends.
- LordStandley, on 02/28/2009, -2/+4I'm glad people are taking an interest in adopting these children. But I think it's beyond ***** sad that it takes a hit movie to make adopting children in need a popular thing.
Like in The Simpsons when the yo-yo team came through school and the next day every kid in school had one. Everyone goes and see's Slumdog Millionaire and goes and gets themselves an indian kid afterwords because it's the new fad. Jackasses! - inactive, on 02/28/2009, -0/+2seeing as you're using the term 'them', you wouldn't understand the problem.
- djk4mal, on 02/28/2009, -0/+1mater? Idiot.
- Sabretou, on 03/01/2009, -0/+1I'd be a lot more concerned about kids stapling bills on each other.
- Eorster, on 02/28/2009, -0/+1Hey they give up one cup of coffee a day to donate. What do you give up?
- KidKenosha, on 03/01/2009, -1/+2Mumbai isn't rich. There are rich people living there; that's not the same thing, especially not in India.
- secondwheel2, on 03/01/2009, -0/+1pretty sad that it needs to take a academy award winning movie for people to give a ***** about something
- CheshireCat, on 02/28/2009, -0/+1Because it's not nice to talk ill of the (nearly) dead.
- Chipette, on 03/01/2009, -0/+1It's *sponsorship*, not adoption. From the article:
"Sponsors' money helps towards securing a decent education, better health care and economic security for children and the communities in which they live." - timothiuz, on 03/02/2009, -0/+1They are still in slums tho...
- RabidCapitalist, on 02/28/2009, -1/+2Frankly, I think it's disgusting that A) we're adopting from overseas when so many of our own children languish in foster care, and B) Hollywood has so much power to subliminally influence our thinking.
People need to wake up and smell the decaf. Children aren't a trend or a fad or something you go out and "buy on a whim" like a Magic Bullet blender. They represent a lifetime commitment. - paloooz, on 02/28/2009, -2/+3I'm so ***** tired of hearing about this ***** movie.
- inactive, on 03/02/2009, -0/+1hey, if you wanna live your life by some imaginary lines drawn by some rich old men centuries ago, go nuts. You be a citizen of your country, I'll be a citizen of the planet. :)
We're all in this together.
I guess some more than others. - charleyfeher, on 02/28/2009, -1/+1Everyone would be sponsoring washed-up wrestlers instead.
- inactive, on 02/28/2009, -3/+3British people will buy into absolutely anything though. Just look at ***** Jade Goody. She was (and still is) a total beast, complete idiot whose only purpose is to be in the newspaper. Everyone hated her, especially after the poppadums.
Now, everyone loves her because she's got some terminal illness. How the ***** does that work? - inactive, on 02/28/2009, -2/+2Just imagine if the Wrestler had been the bigger film.
"Film sparks elbow-related violence nationwide" - inactive, on 02/28/2009, -1/+1yeah..sure you did.
- inactive, on 02/28/2009, -9/+9For some people it's not important or worthy of action until a movie is made. Better late than never...I guess.
- jaysree, on 03/01/2009, -1/+1"Slumdog Millionaire" the 2 most repeated words last week!
- Eorster, on 02/28/2009, -2/+1We just got our 5 pictures from the sponsor a child organization. You know that one "As seen on TV." It's so hard to pick one.
- krakow056, on 03/01/2009, -2/+0Every country has problems.
There are more then a billion people there. If we were to help everyone that has problems there, the world would have to stop and do nothing else...
So yes, let them work out their own problems, like every other country should. Artificially helping random parts of the population would, most likely, only add to the problem. - krakow056, on 03/01/2009, -2/+0Them = the indians.
The problem is people caring about stupid issues milies and miles away while there are important problems in their own countries. - evodevo1, on 03/01/2009, -4/+2***** this, India is getting rich of off all the western outsourcing. Why can't they ***** take care of their own population? Mumbai is as rich as any ***** western nation, yet they need other nations to take care of their own kids who live next door to them?
- inactive, on 02/28/2009, -2/+0people don't get enough outsourcing of their jobs to India now they want to grow thier own.
- inactive, on 02/28/2009, -4/+2Apu will be proud
http://andraco.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/apu.jpg - RIAAagent, on 02/28/2009, -6/+2JAAAAAIIII HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
- Whorebane, on 02/28/2009, -5/+1It kind of reminds me of the scene in the movie with the American tourists.
- inactive, on 02/28/2009, -4/+0Slumdog or No Deal?
Are You Smarter Than A Slumdogger? - krakow056, on 02/28/2009, -5/+0Can we forget about indian kids already?
There's like a billion of them. It's not gonna mater. Let THEM deal with their problems. - BrendanSheehan, on 02/28/2009, -10/+4I want to be a mil-on-aihre!
- RedAbyss, on 02/28/2009, -12/+6Overated movie makes white people feel bad, give money to feel better without actually doing anything.
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