s(h)itting without borders

i think it was the movie new york i love you, that had one story about a father spending the day with his daughter. the father was black and people thought he was the manny (male nanny) because his daughter looks caucasian.

i guess i am a racist at heart, or just simply a non-conformist to the whole new world one world everybody's equal belief. i do; however, think that one particular story in the movie new york i love you is moving. i do think that anybody who father or mother inter-racial kids, would be broken hearted to be 'accused' of being their kids nanny or manny just because his/her race is considered lower than their kids (judging only, of course, by their skins). in that sense, any parents (disregarding their race) would be devastated if the society overlook them as the parents of their own (more over biological) offspring.

and yet, i am also grossed by angelina jolie's act of adopting kids of various race. a feeling i don't have towards salma hayek who breastfed malnutrition children in africa. bear in mind that i detest both celebs. but, somehow, i felt that hayek is more sincere in doing her philanthropic deeds. maybe a bit weird concept for the western world, but people in the arab world have had surrogate breastfeeding mothers since centuries ago. the prophet muhammad himself was breastfed by another woman who is not her mother. in islam, there is even a law that forbid people who breastfed from the same mother to marry, as they are then considered as siblings.

 

why don’t i have the same sympathy for jolie? maybe simply because i assume, for her adopting kids of various race would further boost her image as the next lady di, or the modern day lady midas, who turns unfortunate people's lives to gold. in which i believe that taking some poor kids to make them feel the hollywood glitz and glam is not at all the idea of equality. says who or since when making people who eat rice to eat bread is improving their welfare? and the modern day midas may as well be the modern day medusa.

 

and why do i bother to post junk like this? it's only because i'm sick and tired of politicized poverty. philanthropified politics sickens me. and the pictures of a burmese-french acquaintance of mine who fathers an african girl reminds me of how weird and twisted and yet very artistically cozy the modern world can be. plus, i was going to give this post a title; 'chier sans frontières', but then i need to be more polite in the borderless cyber world.