Hey all, Am I the only one who finds this just a Bit distasteful? To send a bunch of branded t-shirts to Cambodia because our geeky females didn't take all of them last summer in San Francisco?
And then to ask for a picture to top it off? How are they to respond to this? "Ooh, the nice people in America have sent us t-shirts about videoblogging. Let's smile for the Americans"? This is really making me upset. IF we are going to send VloggerCon t-shirts to poor non-Caucasians in Cambodia, we might just as well Really get involved there. Get involved with their local community. Find ways that we as privileged westerners can really help. Just sending them 50 t-shirts because we can't find ways to distribute them among ourselves feels wrong. If we at all care about youth in Cambodia (and I am Not saying that Beth Kanter doesn't care), we should get involved, try to do something, maybe set up a project a la http://swajana.com/ where we can give them a chance to put their voice out there. Give us Their perspective on life. Give them a voice amplifier. Don't give them a frigging t-shirt and let them smile to the camera so we can tell ourselves and each other how international we are as a vlogosphere. Am I off track here? :) best, Raymond M. Kristiansen On 2/27/07, Jay dedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Jay: I'd love to send them over to Cambodia ... small girl sizes are > > perfect .... I can get them distributed via street kids or at the > village > > school or one of our orphanages. I can cover the postage across from to > me > > - and I'll get them to Cambodia later this spring. B. > > Unless anyone else asks for a shirt soon... > send me your address offlist. > They're yours. > > as Jan says...we'd love a photo out of the deal.... > > Jay > > -- > Here I am.... > http://jaydedman.com > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
