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Sandi at wrote on 8/29/05 7:45 PM:

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> Dee Randall wrote:
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>> Americans do NOT assume that that everyone in the world, including some of
>> their fellow Americans, own cells phones, cars, have toilets, have
>> electronics....
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> You don't know how many Americans (and Europeans for that matter) I
> have heard here in Honduras ask for phone numbers, cell phone numbers,
> email addresses, etc. They just assume that people have these
> conveniences. Many but not all, and that were the operative words in my
> statement, assume people everywhere else are just like them...with all
> the modern conveniences immediately at hand. It just ain't so.
>
> A friend just got her phone number issued to her after a 4 year wait.
> It will be another 6 months to a year before it is actually installed.
> If she needs to make a call, she needs to find someone with phone or
> walk the three miles into town to use the public phone in front of the
> phone company office. Oh yeah....and for toilets and showers......her
> mother has a screened off area in her yard with a hole for the toilet
> and another screened off area with a 55gal drum that has a hose
> attached to it as a shower. The village her mother lives in has one
> phone for about 75 families. It is only accessible from 8a.m. to 8p.m.,
> outgoing calls only. I knew the score before I moved here about phones,
> TV, internet, etc. We'd still be waiting for a phone but the landlord
> assigned one of his business lines to our house.
> Americans that I've seen here are stunned when they are told there are
> no private phone lines, no internet access, no TV reception, in many of
> the small villages within 5 miles of town. I witness these assumptions
> every time a new batch of Americans shows up in town. It's amazing
> watching the show.
>
> Sandi
>

Why would anyone ~choose~ to live under such primitive conditions in a third
world country?

What am I missing?

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