Problems in countries far from domestic can somehow seem far easier to solve,says Courtney Martin. Far better to lean in and embrace complexity
Let’s pretend, for a moment, or that you are a 22-year-old college student in Kampala,Uganda. You’re sitting in course and discreetly scrolling through Facebook on your phone. You see that there has been another mass shooting in the US, this time in a place called San Bernardino. You’ve never heard of it. You’ve never been to the US. But you’ve certainly heard a lot approximately the gun violence there. It seems like a new mass shooting happens every week.
You wonder if you could proceed there and accumulate stricter gun legislation passed. You’d be a hero to the American people, and a problem-solver,a lifesaver. How tough could it be? Maybe there’s a fellowship for high-minded people like you to proceed to the US after college and train as social entrepreneurs. You could start the nonprofit organisation that ends mass shootings, maybe even win a humanitarian award by the time you are 30.
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Source: theguardian.com