Illuminating costs, building empathy

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Published on April 15, 2017 16:10
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message 1: by Pepón (last edited Apr 17, 2017 01:44AM) (new)

Pepón One of the best known cases was the lack of translators in the US army due to "don't ask, don't tell" during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars: The Price of Homophobia. We are talking about a 120 000 hour deficit in translations from Arabic during two wars in two Arabic countries.

There have been two studies for this, for Africa and India. Dr. M. G. Lee Badgett presented a preliminary study for India at the World Bank: 1,7% of the GDP could have been lost due to homophobia.

Adebisi Alimi, a LGBT activist, did a similar calculation for Nigeria and Africa. He talks about 1% of the GDP of Nigeria being lost to homophobia. And that's only one country.


message 2: by Kaje (new)

Kaje Harper Those are great links. It is sad that compassion alone doesn't work for so many people, but there's hope that in bringing home the practical costs as well, they may be moved.


message 3: by Misty (last edited Apr 16, 2017 10:36AM) (new)

Misty Pepón wrote: "One of the best known cases was the lack of translators in the US army due to "don't ask, don't tell" during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars: The Price of Homophobia. We are talking about a 120 000 h..."

Thanks very much for these links :) the first one doesn't work : The Price of Homophobia!


message 4: by Kaje (last edited Apr 16, 2017 03:15PM) (new)

Kaje Harper Misty wrote: "Pepón wrote: "One of the best known cases was the lack of translators in the US army due to "don't ask, don't tell" during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars: The Price of Homophobia. We are talking abo..."

I had seen them on Pepón's comment on the blog - I think the broken link is this one - http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/20/opi...


message 5: by Misty (new)

Misty Kaje wrote: "Misty wrote: "Pepón wrote: "One of the best known cases was the lack of translators in the US army due to "don't ask, don't tell" during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars: The Price of Homophobia. We a..."

Thank you Kaje!


message 6: by Pepón (new)

Pepón Kaje wrote: "Misty wrote: "Pepón wrote: "One of the best known cases was the lack of translators in the US army due to "don't ask, don't tell" during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars: The Price of Homophobia. We a..."

@Misty, thanks for noticing. I've corrected the link and it should be OK now.

@Kaje, thanks for answering Misty, and really doing my job ;)


message 7: by Kaje (new)

Kaje Harper :) I appreciated your comments and the links, two of which were new to me.


message 8: by Misty (new)

Misty Pepón wrote: "Kaje wrote: "Misty wrote: "Pepón wrote: "One of the best known cases was the lack of translators in the US army due to "don't ask, don't tell" during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars: The Price of Hom..."

Widely Grinning


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