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Haiti still discovering human skulls
Eyal Reinich
Published: 22.01.12, 07:55
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1. another perspective
Thomas ,   Leogane, Haiti   (02.01.12)
Eyal seems, after a month or a year in Haiti (I don't see which Jan. he started) to be genuinely concerned and attached to the people and the country. No doubt he is helping the many aid agencies he is working with. But the stories he has chosen to highlight betray thinking common to so many recent foreign 'heros' of Haiti -- he wants to side with Haitians against the oppressor Arab shopkeeper who tho also an earthquake victim seems to show little regard for Haitians. I argue Eyal himself exploits Haiti and Haitans by highlighting stories of skulls and wailing people, exotic voodoo rituals, etc.; -- and the pictures are the oddest collection of atypical scenes. By writing mostly about the sensational, a longstanding perception of Haiti as an oddball place is perpetuated. Most Haitians are just trying to get by and share goals and feeling much more akin to than different from people all over the world. But that would not be as good a read. As Paul Farmer might say, the "Uses of Haiti" are many. And Eyal, a bit of advice, I'd stay out of buildings with blue building codes; the safe ones are labled in green (like the street light system everywhere else in the world).
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