In my mind now, I would lower the tax. Because I want to buy a car but the tax is very high, like 100%. A car in the US costs $1,000 but in Vietnam, that same car would cost $2,000. (You want to buy a car?) Yes! (You want to drive a car in Hanoi?!) Well, the traffic is very bad! But yes. --Louis Hanoi, Vietnam
Kyle: The existence of Mayonnaise.
Will: That is a really tough question. I think usually when people hear that, they want to get rid of something that they hate most. And I think my answer would be to introduce something that the world doesn't yet have. And I think I would introduce a new form of com munication with people. Mikayla: Telepathy Will: Yes. Because then I feel like peopole would be more not just interconnected, because I feel like social media already does that, but they become more interconnected culturally. People could, through telepathy, get rid of social stigmas that bring down our society. Mikayla: I would give people the ability to fly because then we don't need cars and there would be no pollution. And it would be really fun to do. Kyle: That would be really terrible. There would be so much theft - are you kidding! --Kyle, Will, and Mikayla Hanoi, Vietnman (USA) I would want to change something that would have a bigger chain reaction to other things. But I don't know what would have the biggest chain reaction. I think I would want mine to extend from the idea that everyone would have the opportunity to do something that they are passionate about. I feel like some people never find their thing, no matter how big or how small, but when you find your thing, other things in your life can have a different perspective... because you always have that one thing you are looking forward to. So for everyone to have the means and ability to find their thing.
--Martha Hanoi, Vietnam (USA) I think mine might have something to do with travel. Making everybody travel - or giving everybody the ability to travel somewhere else. And I don't just mean to a different country. I taught in a town where it was about 30 miles from Minnesota and when we went on a field trip to Minnesota, more than half the class had never been to Minnesota. They had never left their home town. They don't go anywhere. They are stuck where they are due to lack of resources, lack of willingness, lack of reason to go anywhere. I had a lot of people in my town who were scared of going on the highway because it is a big road... Helping people to see other people. To realize there is more than one way to live like you do in your house in your small town. Just to share the opportunities, and the stories, and the memories that you have.
--Marie Hanoi, Vietnam (USA)
One thing I would change in the world is people's ignorance to think that one color is better than the other. (Both ways, always, any color.) True, true, true, true. I think that today, sadly, we are still on that, ahhhh, black and white bit. You know, for example you have South Africa and you have the hostility of white South Africans, not all, but some, thinking that they were, you know, Africa was their land before anyone else. And how they so strongly believe that, you know, it is their country and any other sort of colors outside of their own are ruining it. Granted it is a fantastic and a beautiful country. South Africa really geographically does not even come close to even looking like it is something from Africa... it is kind of like a mix, really. It is a mixed climate as well as vegitation, its greenery, its mountains. Snow in Africa. It is absolutely incredible. I wish sometimes - I just don't understand how sometimes people just cannot live in harmony and just share. But people are very quick to point out who has got more right to be where, who has got more right to own land, how you don't have any right simply because we developed it - you didn't do anything with it. So that is a bit of a sad one for me, but that is what I would change. Because perception on that one - I don't know how I would go about doing it, but that is what I would change. --Tundu Koh Samui, Thailand (Tazania) |
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