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So true - we in the West

Submitted by The Buzz on July 18, 2007 - 20:03.

So true - we in the West have had it good for so long that it often is purely taken for granted that this is the just the way life is. Of course its not easy for everyone in the West, but compared to the billions of people on Earth who don't have clean drinking water and have never even used a telephone (let alone a mobile phone), its a world away.

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