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Posted by Mucus (Member # 9735) on :
 
A short documentary on Chinese development in Angola:
http://washingtonbureau.typepad.com/china/2008/12/chinatown-africa.html

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This is an interesting 24-minute video about China’s huge impact on Angola. The report is from Current TV, the internet network founded by former Vice President Al Gore.

Not too much new information and the coverage was pretty biased. This was less interesting for me from a political view but more interesting from more of a cultural one.

As in, regardless of your stance on whether development in Angola is a good thing, it was interesting to see how the Chinese workers viewed working in Africa, some of the villager's children thinking that all foreigners including white people were Chinese, and some of the Angolan workers working with (or for) the Chinese.
 


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