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So, why don't they re-release The Grapes of Wrath in theaters nationwide and we can all saunter in with our extra large tubs of buttered popcorn and watch how it looks when it's not the Indian, African, or Asian - but the American who is starving and impoverished.

It may even inspire a tidal wave of goodwill from our upper crust to help stymie the tumbling condition of our country.

Although, in all honesty, they would have to photoshop Miley Cyrus' image somewhere between Pa and Rosasharn on the posters to actually get any audience.

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When you ask albeit rhetorically, "Won't somebody do something!", the 'somebody' who has the most power to do something to help these poverty-stricken and humiliated group people is the group of extremely wealthy Indian industrialists, actors, politicians, businessmen et al who are doing the least.

And they won't do anything because like in most Third World countries, poor people are expendable and akin to vermin. And like in most colonized Third World countries, the elites and the intelligentsia won't cop to their extreme prejudices and prefer instead to make Westerners their boogeymen.

The horrible and disturbing fact is that for all the tortured liberal hand-wringing and glib conservative indifference, Danny Boyle has done more for these children in his awkward way than any Indian person ever has or ever will.

Also do keep in mind that the slum-dwellers are not just poor, they are low-caste. And in India, where caste is king despite all the heavy propaganda to the contrary, caste and class go hand-in-hand. Ironically, Americans due to their different upbringing see caste less than most Indians do. And these children will never get the respect and kindness they deserve because as low-caste slumdwellers, Indian elites will never see them as more than trashy vermin who inexplicably caught the eye of those asshole weirdos from the West.

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