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If I was that African kid I woulda been pissed off

posted 13 years ago by immabe5
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Boohoo, your daughter is marrying an idiot, I'm six years old and I'm STARVING and I HAVE AN INFECTION IN MY EYE THAT ALMOST KILLED ME.

[–] Gdub33 12 years ago

Word.

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S you in your A's Don't wear a C and J all over your B's

[–] saschatuchardt 12 years ago

I think the movie very clearly points out how ridiculous his letter sounds.

I watched the movie last night and while I can totally understand that Schmidt's situation was quite depressing I cringed when he wrote those letters and that was the movie's intention.

I might be wrong but when he starts crying in the end, I guess he realizes himself.

[–] chas437 12 years ago

Dear Ndugu, I'll bet you can't wait to cash this check and go get yourself something to eat.

[–] choatelodge 11 years ago

On the other hand to Ndugu, Warren Schmidt, eccentric or incomprehensible though his letters may seem, is the only one in the whole world besides the nuns who cares for him and who actually sends support money to him, a boy he has never met!
Ndugu would be an awful ingrate if he were so shallow as to harshly judge his sole benefactor for that man's oddities, and as we are to believe through the interpreter nun, Indugu is not that ingrate. Indugu shows his appreciation. Good for him and good for Warren.

[–] Captain_Bob 11 years ago

You're assuming that Ndugu reads the letters, or that he can even read English which he probably can't. The nuns probably read the letters to him and filtered out the garbage.

[–] choatelodge 11 years ago

Of course, and regardless whether the nun read him the letters translated in full accuracy, most of the material will not be anything he can recognize or have any frame of reference from which to understand.
The point is, Ndugu would not express anger that is based on the feeling that that his ills and troubles are greater than Warren's, as the thread writer suggested! Ndugu would simply be grateful, as we are led to believe that he is.