Flora Mondi- Reflection #6

Flora Mondi

Getachew Godana

COMM 211

Reflection #6

Living on One Dollar

            The movie we watched in class, Living on One Dollar, was very informative and eye opening. While watching the movie, I was able to see how difficult and how other people live their lives on a day to day bases. Here in the western culture, life seems to be look as if everyone is rich and has all that they have. The media portrays it that way, but if you go to the poor side of town or even downtown Lincoln, you would be able to see all the homeless and poor residents. This makes us unease as well which shows that we are uncomfortable with seeing sights like that but in some households, people throw away food every day or clothes when they can give it to the poor and homeless.

            In my household, my little brother and sister are the most spoiled children from all of us in the house. They are also so westernized that they refuse to eat African food that my mom would make. Once in a while, my mom would only cook African food, no American or processed foods in the house for a whole week and we have no option but to eat it. My little sister and brother would refuse to eat and would hide in their rooms for the remaining time being when dinner is served. All they want to eat is chicken nuggets, fries, or even pizza.

            While watching the movie, it brought memories of my sister and brother and I was disgusted by their attitudes. They don’t seem to see that there are many other people and families that struggle every to put food on the table to feed their families and my little siblings are starving themselves because they don’t like the food that was cook. The movie opened my eyes to see the other sides of the economy that is in the worst shape then what our perceptions seem to see the world.