Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Mind, Maps and Poverty

This video I watched by Han Rosling was interesting yet I was kind of lost in it. He explained about many different countries changing over time along with the economy... He showed graphs of child mortality in Asian countries going down over time and many others that I couldn't quite understand. Mr. Rosling also mentioned that certain parts of Africa are not in need of things like we think they are. He said that they have everything they need and more. I don't know if that is true but I would think that it would be.

The thing I thought was most intriguing was the fact that China and its economy compared to the United States and our economy is coming to a point where China is equal with the U.S.

Mr. Rosling seemed to know what he was doing and tried to show what he wanted people to know in his graphs. He was very easy to listen to and I enjoyed hearing a Swedish accent.

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