Angelina Jolie Slams Westerners For Barring Refugees In Open Letter
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Angelina Jolie has criticized attitude of Westerners towards immigrants from troubles countries in a letter to United Nations magazine "Refugees."
Jolie says immigrants are often seen as being sub-human.
Jolie, who is currently in India with partner Brad Pitt and her three children, expressed outrage when she saw a photo of an unidentified couple relaxing on a Spanish beach while the washed-up corpse of a black man lay nearby.
The Oscar-winning actress, who is also a U.N. goodwill ambassador, writes, "We'll never know who he was or why he ended up there and the couple on the beach apparently couldn't care less."
"Someone's son, someone's brother, or someone's loved one. In fact, you or me, if we had been born at another time, or in another place. Many have also died trying to get into the United States and Australia. But we don't notice."
Jolie also comments about how her trips to Bosnia, Rwanda and Afghanistan have exposed her to the harsh realities of living in improvised nations.
She says: "I have been to some of these countries, or to their neighbors, where most of the refugees remain. It is a truly humbling experience, a shocking eye-opener."
"It has made me realize that we are all - myself included - behaving like the couple sitting under their umbrella on the beach, gazing studiously out to sea."
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