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It's Not All About the iPods
She was talking about the new $40 million school for poor young girls she has built in South Africa and her awareness that some people would ask why she hadn't spent that money to benefit poor students at home. She already gives millions to educate underprivileged children in the United States, and anyway,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], she told Newsweek, the two situations are different. South Africa has desperate poverty and rudimentary infrastructure. The American educational system may have its faults, but "it does work."
Point made. But she wasn't done,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
"I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," she said. "If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod or some sneakers. In South Africa,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school."
It's hard to know where to start. I guess the most charitable spin is that Oprah should visit some different schools. If she checks out some rich suburbs, for example, she'll find that kids there also want iPods -- and, yes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], that they lust after overpriced sneakers,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], too. It's possible to argue that young people in the United States are overly materialistic, but not that the problem is confined to inner-city youths or is even worse among inner-city youths.
And there's no way to put lipstick on the part about how "the sense that you need to learn just isn't there" among inner-city young people, who,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], by the way, tend to be African American and Hispanic. As a nation, we should be outraged that there are so many failing, dysfunctional schools in our inner cities. No one should make excuses for students who foolishly fail to understand how education can better their lives and who do their best to drag others down with them. But in the inner-city schools I've visited, most students desperately want to learn -- just as Oprah,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], growing up poor in inner-city Milwaukee, wanted desperately to learn.
The razor-sharp contrast that Oprah drew between young people in South Africa and those in the United States gets all fuzzy when you read her "What I Know for Sure" column in the December issue of O, The Oprah Magazine.
She writes of 10 South African orphans,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], ages 7 to 14, whom she took under her wing several years ago, hiring caretakers for them, sending them to a private boarding school, buying them a big house and hiring a decorator "to personalize each of their bedrooms." Last summer, she said,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], she went to South Africa and dropped by the house unannounced.
"I found them all at the homework table off the kitchen, doing their work," she wrote. "That's a good thing. But when I sat them down in the living room for a conversation, everyone's cell phone kept going off." But "the inner spark I was used to seeing in their eyes was gone, replaced by their delight in their rooms full of things."
The girls had "long,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], braided hair extensions flowing down their backs" and were wearing baseball caps. In general, the kids "could talk about what they owned -- the latest portable PlayStations,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], iPods, and sneakers -- but they couldn't speak of what they'd done."
Once again, those dastardly iPods and sneakers. But it seems that South African kids,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], as well as Americans, are susceptible to the evil lure of really cool stuff.
Look, I have nothing but sincere applause for Oprah's philanthropy,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], both at home and abroad. It's mean-spirited to criticize her for building that $40 million school outside Johannesburg, complete with beauty salon and yoga studio. Her idea is to offer a unique opportunity to a few special girls who have the potential to do great things in their society, and Oprah generally accomplishes just what she sets out to do.
But she should realize that however exceptional the students at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls might be,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], they're still teenagers. They will be sporting the latest look, whether it's long braids or elaborate curls. Their cellphones will buzz and hum nonstop with instant messages from their friends. That's what teenagers are like.相关的主题文章：

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