Get the World’s Poor on the Map… er Board.
January 29th, 2008 at 5:08 pm | posted by annisa.wanatI got an email today about how I could help determine which countries go on the next “global” Monopoly board. At first, I was intrigued, I would of course vote for Chicago but then I found out you could vote more than once. My mind raced, I could vote for the country where I studied, the one where I was in the Peace Corps, and I always liked to say “Dar es Salaam” maybe I would vote for that city, or I have a friend in Nigeria, why don’t I vote for her current home? Very excited I went to the site only to find out that there are only two African countries on the list and of all the possible cities, none are in countries classified as low-income. How can they claim to have a “global” board, when half the world’s population is left out?
Luckily, there is the possibility to write in some cities, so here are my suggestions that cover different geographic areas, if you have a different favorite, write that instead!
-Nairobi, Kenya
-Yangon, Myanmar (that’s Rangoon, Burma for those of us that studied geography a bit ago…)
-Kwoi, Nigeria
-Port-Au-Prince, Haiti
Unlike the regular voting, you can only vote for one wildcard a day, but I’m from Chicago, I’ll remember to vote early and often and get the world’s poor on the map…, er board, I hope you can too!
-Annisa Wanat
January 30th, 2008 at 11:22 am
I chose Khayelitsha in South Africa…one of the largest townships. It’s located right outside of Cape Town. I had the opportunity to visit there and see the struggles of the people first hand–lack of food, clean water, health care, affordable school.
January 30th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Vote Nairobi, Nairobi, KE
This is only going to happen if we get a lot of people voting for the same city.
February 6th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
I tried to add Burkina Fasso, Timbuktu, Niamey,Gaberone Botswana, and a number of other African cities, but was blocked from even being able to select them, as they are not in the global register!!!! at least not on the version accessible by my computer accessing this Monopoly site. There is not even an address to send comments in to Monopoly… SHAME ON THEM. As for islands in the South pacific, no access to them either… so half of the places I have lived in my life are not even recognised as existing!!!!!
Please let us have a reply box, then we can tell monopoly what we want. Obviously, all these cities are blocked because there are not enough “consumers” in those countries, so no profit incentive.to add them.. how about adding a couple of cities from the “invisible countries” as an educational tool to widen the ever narrowing minds of our youth.. because, globalisation means “Ai?no, log a B list! NOT first class at all!
July 8th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
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