Haiti/Japan: Similar Disaster, But Different Pictures

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Haiti/Japan: Similar Disaster, Different Pictures – Reading The Pictures

When we look West to Japan we see something rather like ourselves. When we look South, however, we see something altogether different.

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Japan is a modern society with a technologically advanced infrastructure, Haiti is an economically undeveloped country mired in massive poverty. And yet for all of that, the disparity of visual representation is telling