Craig and Marc Kielburger are founders of
the international charity and educational partner Free The Children . Its youth
empowerment event, We Day, will be held at the Saddledome (in Calgary) on Wednesday Oct 24, 2012.
Just be thankful for our First World
problems
By Craig & Marc Kielburger,
Opinion
Opinion
Calgary Herald
October 22, 2012
"I hate when my leather seats aren't
heated," says a grinning boy, shrugging his shoulders and throwing his
hands in the air in that traditional gesture of annoyance.
"When I leave my clothes in the washer
so long, they start to smell," laments a girl who looks about 11, a few
moments later.
However, the boy isn't sitting in a luxury
car, he's perched atop a pile of gravel outside a cinder block building with no
windows.
There's no washing machine behind the girl,
only a narrow, muddy creek where women wash clothes by hand.
These are scenes from a short video called
The First World Problems Anthem - a cheeky, teasing shot at us pampered First
World dwellers featuring Haitians reciting a litany of complaints you're far
more likely to hear at Second Cup than in a seedy slum. Juxtaposed against
images of dire poverty, grumbles like "my house is so big I need two
wireless routers" come across as more than a little whiny.
The anthem has become an epic viral
sensation. The video has had more than 1.5 million views since it was released
on YouTube on Oct. 3 by Water is Life, a small non-profit that distributes
water filtration straws in developing communities.
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