What is the Uncultured Project?

A frequently asked question :)

Find out more at:

http://youtube.com/UP

http://youtube.com/shawn

http://twitter.com/uncultured

http://uncultured.net

http://uncultured.com

If you wish to donate, you can do so at:

http://uncultured.com/donations

You can choose to donate to the poor by donating to the project fund or help me pay for the overhead, equipment, and expenses related to this project by donating to the operating & equipment fund (most needed at the moment).

Special thanks to:

- Elgato for the Turbo.264 HD used to encode this video
- CoreMelt for special trial of C2 Lock & Load used for image stabilization
- Michael Aranda for last minute video advice & tips
- John & Hank Green for all their support

Music used: "Our Lives Change" by T R Y ^ D (Creative Commons Attribution)

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• UnculturedProject
• Shawn
• Bangladesh
• Uncultured
• Project
• Global
• Poverty
• Notre
• Dame
• Nerdfighters
• Nerdfighting
• World
• Suck
• John
• Green

[BloodStorm1991]

Thats nice and all that you want to help people, but there are so many people here in the USA that need help too, there are little kids on the streets and doing whatever they can for money here too. Why dont we help our own country before we go help others? that way it betters us, so we can in turn help others even more.

[UnculturedProject]

@BloodStorm1991 See my video "Fighting Hunger in America". But, also, keep in mind that poverty in America is not the same as poverty in the developing world. There is a reason we call it EXTREME poverty. Many children die before the age of fix due to lack of clean water, 30 cent immunizations, or a $5 mosquito net. In America, there are public utilities (clean water), free immunizations, free childhood education, and even food banks. Not great, not ideal - but far superior to extreme poverty.

[ILoadng]

This is something really good. But, wont these people just depend on you giving them things now?

[UnculturedProject]

@ILoadng Great question. The answer to this is complex because aid & development is complex. I do not ascribe to the "handout" model of charity. But I do believe that proper aid & development is done with close collaboration with those in need. And those in need are not stupid and - contrary to popular opinion - don't like being dependent. If given the chance, they will ask for forms of help and interventions that save lives and pull themselves out of poverty.

[arachnophile01]

So if it's not a charity... which box do I check on my taxes for "experiment in community"? Just teasing, but seriously, nice work.

[UnculturedProject]

@arachnophile01 Here's the serious answer: if your family gets together with your neighbors to pool funds to renovate your neighborhood playground, what do you check on your taxes? Or, if you're in college, and you pool funds with your friends to help a low-income student buy a textbook - what do you check on your taxes? Not all charitable acts are done via tax-writeoffs. But if you prefer that, donate to charity instead :) I recommend Save the Children.

[UnculturedProject]

@YourDailyLaughz Hey :) Few notes. First, I spent more than that. Much more. The very very very last of my savings was for my return ticket (already paid) and to pickup an Xbox (something I've always wanted to do) when I got back. I decided to go all in and give up that too. And I did it to show how a very very very small amount of money can make a big difference. That money put nearly a dozen kids in school and fed nearly 100 people. And more.

[teewilson333]

@BloodStorm1991 You cannot look at the future in terms of the present. Humans are not just that way our current way of life conditions men into greed, bigotry, national arrogance etc. No one is born any way. Once scarcity is surpassed by global abundance today will become part of the dark ages. From the first civilization all the way to today will become the age of vulgarians where people had wars, poverty, greed, price mechanism's etc.

[BloodStorm1991]

@teewilson333 no its not technology, its the people who make/own/use it... and because humans being the way they are, they are not just going to give out stuff like that for free.

[teewilson333]

@BloodStorm1991 Its not technology that does that it is essentially the value structure witch permits war. And it can be changed through abundance of resources. Suppose you had a system imbedded into your wall that you could access food for free. No one would rob a store. Material resources can be engineered at a molecular level to make coal into diamonds or whatever you need out of nothing but information files. Men conditioned in such a manor would act very different than us.

[ezmake343]

Next time I see a girl in school complaining and crying that they have a phone from 2008 and not an iPhone 4. I will make them beg for their life.

[VelaToNorma7]

Maybe if you stupid Americans stopped being multicultural your country wouldn't have so many problems.

[Ariel62073]

It's probably somehow German in nature.

[BloodStorm1991]

@teewilson333 technology is why humans are they way they are now, because they use it to take over others and then they take all they have or do more harm then good. back when there was no technology, yeah there were wars but people knew how to live off the land. technology just made war bigger and power went to peoples heads.

[teewilson333]

@BloodStorm1991 A human inside the U.S is the same outside. Such boundary's are imaginary. If people wish to help impoverished people...start wherever you please. Poverty does not discriminate. It is not an American problem or a polish problem or a Chinese problem...they are human problems. Im quite confident that technology and innovation will produce abundance one day. Money will vanish and resources will become common heritage of everyone. Crime, poverty, wars will be extinct.

[Yes99Love]

Woow i just can't believe someone is doing this

[mrbopper96]

props to him. well done, shows what people should be doing