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Re:A lucky little fish solves iron deficiency among women in... by Someone1234 on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @02:53PM (#8888586)
"Obvious" to you, not "obvious" to them. Plus what do they "know?" That some random person from affair has turned up and told them to start eating metal? You can try to explain the benefits but without the core underpinnings that we take for granted you will have to alter the explanation to their understanding.

Which might be do-able if they're open to learning and you've contrived an explanation they can wrap their head around. However a lot of particularly older people aren't that open to learning and aren't that easily trusting of foreigners.

It is very easy to sit in our ivory tower and pretend like we, in the west, are above it but the recent measles outbreak at Disneyland would beg to differ...

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Re:A lucky little fish solves iron deficiency among women in... by dllthomas on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @05:34PM (#8889612)
And of course, try it with the wrong metal and you get very different results.
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Re:A lucky little fish solves iron deficiency among women in... by mark-r on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @05:44PM (#8889655)
Along the same lines, just hope that nobody gets the bright idea to add color by coating them with lead-based paint.
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Re:A lucky little fish solves iron deficiency among women in... by Someone1234 on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @03:17PM (#8888742)
That's not very empathetic. If you were brought up with no formal education, little access to information outside of your sphere, and you knew most people that lived around you on a first name basis, you too would be as distrusting of strangers.

For all you know they could be trying to poison you to steal your land. To you their stuff might be worthless (a point you made abundantly clear) but to them that stuff is their entire livelihood and everything they have worked for. Something they might wish to pass down to their kids.

Your entire little rant there just comes across arrogant and judgemental.

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Re:A lucky little fish solves iron deficiency among women in... by jacalata on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @03:45PM (#8888895)
Fact is, xenophobia is a problem of ignorance and ignorance is far more acceptable among people who have not had the opportunity to learn better than it is among people who have. You appear to have a surprisingly simplistic attitude to life - do you also judge an illiterate toddler the same way you would an illiterate college student?
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