How weird would it be to have a whole village share one TV? Here in a lot of houses there is one TV in almost every room. And if there is no TV in one room, we can always take our laptops there and watch things on Youtube or Netflix. Like so many things, we take TVs for granted. If we're bored we just go and turn on a TV and watch whatever is on. Even if there is nothing particularly interesting on, we'll sit there anyway just for the sake of sitting there.
The picture that I looked at today from Salgado's book was one of a group of people working on a farm. One is pulling a cart full of hay or wheat and two others are behind the cart pushing. They look hard at work. It doesn't look like an easy job. The description for this picture talks about how there isn't a lot of funding from the government for agriculture. There is no money for farming equipment, so farmers have to do everything manually. Although there is no money for machinery, the people of the village all bought a communal TV. The TV sits in the middle of their village and everyone brings their own chairs to watch.
This is so odd to me. In my house there are three TVs and five computers. There are times when all of my family are in different rooms watching different TV shows. There are also times when we're all in the same room but each on a different computer. For us, TVs are really no big deal, they are everywhere. But for the people of this village, their one TV is their pride. I love hearing about things like this--not the hardships of others--the little things that make other people's lives exciting because a lot of the time those little things are things that I take completely for granted. It makes me re-think my views.
Works Cited
Salgado, Sebastião. Migrations: Humanity in
Transition. New York: Aperture, 2000. 346 Print.
Salgado, Sebastião. Migrations: Humanity in
Transition. (Pamphlet) New York: Aperture, 2000. 26 Print
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