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Julien

Hi everybody,

I heard that world news are "selected" before they go on TV/newspapers etc ... I heard that 3/4 of the world news are from the north side of the world. Does it mean that the south doesn't exist?

Creating your blog helps you keep in touch with your family etc ... by posting everyday on your blog you also become a reporter. We are, on Expat.com, interested in finding out what's going on on our planet.

People like us, who have left their countries to start another life in another place, have -I think- realized more than others that we are all living in the same world, and that distance is not so important.

So keep posting news on your blog, tell us what's good in your country of residence and what is not, and discuss about it on this forum.

Thank you to all Expat.com members who are sharing their experience to the world

Julien

Jo Ann

You know what? It's funny.
From the day I posted online about Angola being a racist country, I was attacked by a French expat living in Angola. He was saying that I was lying, doing propaganda, talking about something that never existed and he had Angolan friends who would come tell me what they thought about that kind of lies about Angola yadda yadda.
Incredibly or not, although I have no teaching vocation (even though I give French classes to adults here in Montpellier), I kept calm.
Com'on. I am Angolan. I go back every year. Does *he* know what I have to undergo? Because he has friends, I can't tell what I think about my own country? puh-lee-ze! In Angola, if you're White Expat you're better treated than a Black/Mixed native! When will this hypocrisy stop? Seriously.

The good thing of it all is that, he started asking around about that racism and other things I talked about (like billet camps, kids soldiers - things I saw, nobody told me) and he "came back" saying that my articles made some people talk about reality, the one they would hide from the foreigner. I told him to go to inner provinces, leave the capital Luanda behind and see for his eyes.
Can you believe he actually asked my opinions about the elections and other stuff?

Those guys, why, before attacking, don't think before acting?
I don't do propaganda. I don't do politics (sort of). I write about what I saw/see. Does it make me less patriot if I say "yes, I was victim of racism in my own country? I was called "White"! They don't accept me as one of them".
If I can't say it, who can?

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