afghanistan

As sad as it seems, this might also be explained by the fact that millions of people from all across the world access these sites and although these issues are important in our homeland, elsewhere they may just be last year's news.
             Another astonishing element almost completely ignored in the articles is the amount of education that the Afghanistan people receive. There is no discussion of a public or private education system in the country, although half of all Afghani men and the majority of women are illiterate. The literacy rate in the country is mentioned in the Reuters and ABC article, but was avoided by the BBC. This can be explained by the fact that there is "evidence [that] suggests a large proportion of the population listens to foreign broadcasters." The BBC may not have been as concerned with the literacy rates of the Afghani people knowing the majority of the citizens" tune into foreign broadcasting system to listen for their news. .
             There was a discrepancy between the ABC and Reuters articles concerning the amount of people in Afghanistan that are illiterate. The information given by ABC quoted a straight thirty percent, while Reuters gives an illiteracy rate of fifty-four percent for men and eighty-five percent for females above 15-years-old. Looking at these statistics it is easy to become confused thinking that one of the statistics quoted is off. However, they were not - the ABC article is discussing the average literate population while Reuters is discussing the illiterate population. This use of statistics may have been used in order to portray Afghanistan as an almost complete illiterate country.
             Another aspect of Afghanistan that was not addressed outright in any of the three articles is what life is like in Afghanistan. Although we live in a very modernized world there was an extremely low expectancy of life for both men and women. The majority of adults in the country are not expected to live past the age of 45 to 46 years old.