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I actually have been to Haiti.

They have a lot of smart people and a lot more who are illiterate or just barely read. One problem I read that I hope is exaggerated is 80% of university graduates supposedly emigrate.

The only benefit that is they send remittances to family.

Haitians definitely are not the most ignorant people in the world.

A little of half of them can read at at least a grade school level.

Contrast to Afgans, where 70% of men and
90% of women really are illiterate.

Read in the news today that only 15% of police and army can read or write- how do they even know what the law is?

How do they report the reason they arrest someone?

Haiti at least requires its police to be able to fill out an arrest report.

Too many Haitians blame cholera on people putting magic powder in the water for malevolent reasons instead of focusing on hygeiene and potable water.

Too many ready to assault and rob aid workers.

Too many send their kids out to sell stuff on the street instead of sending them to school, or give the kids to a family to serve as a restavek, or slave.

They have cut down all their forests for firewood, leading to widespread erosion of their farm soil. AND THERE ARE HAITIANS WHO ARE TRYING TO TURN THIS AROUND.

Whatever Preval's faults, he did not emigrate.

Same with the people competing to succeed him.

Brian Sitterley, December 17 2010, 12:44 AM

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It is very hard to classify or judge them or say they are ignorant by the fact that the rate illiteracy is so high... read more >
Jean, 15-Aug-10 1:53 pm
I actually have been to Haiti. They have a lot of smart people and a lot more who are illiterate or just barely read... read more >
Brian Sitterley, 17-Dec-10 12:44 am
Brian, You started okay but then got to talk about something that you have very little to no understand about. For a... read more >
Tiba, 17-Dec-10 6:18 am
Dear Tiba, The worst that 20th centry foriegners did to Haiti was not the 1990's, but the 1920's and 1930's when... read more >
Brian Sitterley, 17-Dec-10 10:40 pm
Brian, You said, "In fairness to investors, it is dangerous to invest in places without stable government". The irony... read more >
Tiba, 18-Dec-10 5:13 am
Tiba, go to my website, An African architect challenged me to find a way to build holistic housing for the third world... read more >
Harvey Lacey, 29-Dec-10 9:55 pm
Houses and building made out of plastic seem to be a sensible and practical idea for locations that are susceptible to... read more >
Pierre F. Lherisson, 30-Dec-10 9:21 am
Harvey, I don't understand the meaning of this challenge you just gave me since I never mentioned anything about... read more >
Tiba, 30-Dec-10 12:52 pm
Thank you for your reply Tiba. I respectfully disagree with you. Go to my website and look at the blocks. Here's why I... read more >
Harvey Lacey, 30-Dec-10 7:59 pm
Harvey, We keep going in circle on this issue because each of us is talking about 2 different things here. You keep... read more >
Tiba, 31-Dec-10 7:25 am
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