Is oprah causing more harm than good by educating these children to american standards when africa will never have the resources to sustain an american way of life?
I have to take issue with this bit. First,
America doesn't have the resources to sustain an American way of life. If everybody lived as we do in the prosperous West, we would need about four Earths.
Also, I fail to see how education would be somehow wasted on South Africans. SA is a developed country, with plenty of infrastructure and industry. The problem is that the jobs always used to go to the white population. Educating poor kids will help to redistribute those jobs a little more fairly. South African kids don't want to grow up to be subsistence farmers. They want to be lawyers, journalists, biologists and engineers. That is why they need education. Don't patronise them.
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