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It reminds me of things Mother Teresa (who was at times a horrendous person, her Nobel acceptance speech is pretty disturbing and cruel) said about American/wes
by otakucode 9y ago
It reminds me of things Mother Teresa (who was at times a horrendous person, her Nobel acceptance speech is pretty disturbing and cruel) said about American/western society. She remarked that although a person in India might be radically more poor, even if they were starving in the street, they knew people would reach out to them and cared for them. In America, no matter how rich you are, you feel far more alone than that.
- gedy 9y ago> (who was at times a horrendous person, her Nobel acceptance speech is pretty disturbing and cruel) Wait what? Because she brought up abortion? https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1979/teresa-acceptance_en.html https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1979...
- emodendroket 9y agoI don't know about the speech particularly, but I think Catholic notions about poverty and suffering bringing people closer to Christ rub some people the wrong way. At least that seems to be a lot of the motivation behind "Mother Teresa was awful" stuff I see.
- hourislate 9y agoMother Teresa didn't know much about America. She failed to realize that money might not buy happiness but it sure buys the kind of misery we all like.
- TACIXAT 9y agoI don't think I've ever seen someone starving in the street in the US. I totally disagree with the sentiment that Americans wouldn't help each other. There is a lack of community here and that would be a nice problem to solve, but we aren't heartless.