Yes! No school yesterday! BOOO... School today.
My uncle is fine. I think that he's still having some trouble breathing and stuff, but he's okay. Yesterday, we went out for sushi with him, my Aunt Hande, and my cousin Lina. I love sushi.
At the sushi place, my dad was ordering and he asked if I liked eel. I replied that I didn't, as I have tried eel before, and I'm not fond of the smooth and chewy texture of eel on it's own. After all of the rolls were on the table, I tried one of the funkier looking ones, and my dad asked if I liked it. I responded that it was really tasty (which it was). Of course, it was eel. I hate it when that happens. Although, the eel roll was yummy.
I read an article on Yahoo (which is no longer my homepage as I decided to spare myself) about the ivory market and the dwindling numbers of elephants on the reservations in the DRC. The article basically stated that it is expected that the population of elephants in that area will be zero by 2020 or earlier, because of poachers killing them for ivory.
I read a lot of the comments, and they turned out a variety of responses. Some people blamed the poachers, others were really racist and blamed Africans in general, and one blamed China.
One comment extremely bothered me. Someone said that Africans were like "barbarians" and didn't care about how they were hurting the elephants, but only knew that they wanted the ivory. That is such a dumb thing to say, in my humble opinion.
I don't understand how someone could say that. Those "barbarians" have families to feed and the situation is much more complicated than a bunch of "barbarians" running around starting fires and killing elephants.
Also, who were the people who ransacked Africa, killed thousands of people, depleted the land of all of it's value and set the continent on a path of corruption? Europeans. Their lack of respect for other humans seems pretty barbaric to me.
I don't know much on the subject, however, if you spend a few minutes really thinking about it, maybe the problem isn't the poachers. It's really easy to blame the poachers, because they're the ones who are committing the obvious crimes. One again, I don't know much about it. However, to call Africans barbaric, because they're trying to make a living seems really horrible. I'm not trying to defend poaching, because it's pretty evident how terrible that is. It's just that I don't think that going through all of the trouble to poach is for fun. People are paying them for all of that ivory, and *hint*hint*, it probably isn't other Africans.
Well- Happy Tuesday!
-D.F.T.B.A.-
Mina;)
-D.F.T.B.A.-
Mina;)
My uncle is fine. I think that he's still having some trouble breathing and stuff, but he's okay. Yesterday, we went out for sushi with him, my Aunt Hande, and my cousin Lina. I love sushi.
At the sushi place, my dad was ordering and he asked if I liked eel. I replied that I didn't, as I have tried eel before, and I'm not fond of the smooth and chewy texture of eel on it's own. After all of the rolls were on the table, I tried one of the funkier looking ones, and my dad asked if I liked it. I responded that it was really tasty (which it was). Of course, it was eel. I hate it when that happens. Although, the eel roll was yummy.
I read an article on Yahoo (which is no longer my homepage as I decided to spare myself) about the ivory market and the dwindling numbers of elephants on the reservations in the DRC. The article basically stated that it is expected that the population of elephants in that area will be zero by 2020 or earlier, because of poachers killing them for ivory.
I read a lot of the comments, and they turned out a variety of responses. Some people blamed the poachers, others were really racist and blamed Africans in general, and one blamed China.
One comment extremely bothered me. Someone said that Africans were like "barbarians" and didn't care about how they were hurting the elephants, but only knew that they wanted the ivory. That is such a dumb thing to say, in my humble opinion.
I don't understand how someone could say that. Those "barbarians" have families to feed and the situation is much more complicated than a bunch of "barbarians" running around starting fires and killing elephants.
Also, who were the people who ransacked Africa, killed thousands of people, depleted the land of all of it's value and set the continent on a path of corruption? Europeans. Their lack of respect for other humans seems pretty barbaric to me.
I don't know much on the subject, however, if you spend a few minutes really thinking about it, maybe the problem isn't the poachers. It's really easy to blame the poachers, because they're the ones who are committing the obvious crimes. One again, I don't know much about it. However, to call Africans barbaric, because they're trying to make a living seems really horrible. I'm not trying to defend poaching, because it's pretty evident how terrible that is. It's just that I don't think that going through all of the trouble to poach is for fun. People are paying them for all of that ivory, and *hint*hint*, it probably isn't other Africans.
Well- Happy Tuesday!
-D.F.T.B.A.-
Mina;)
-D.F.T.B.A.-
Mina;)
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