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Foreign Aid Background:
Interpreting a Political Cartoon

Directions: Examine the political cartoon below, then respond to the questions.

 

 1. The cartoonist would most likely agree that

A. Americans are fat and lazy and ignore third world countries.
B. Americans have an overabundance of diseases brought on by overeating and poor health care.
C. Americans keep too much of their resources to themselves, allowing others in the world to go wanting.
D. People in third world countries are starving.

 2. How might foreign aid relate to the situation depicted in this cartoon?

F. The United States can afford to be much more generous with foreign aid to poor countries.
G. The U.S. should send more doctors and aid workers to third world countries.
H. Americans eat too much, creating health care problems like obesity in the U.S.
J. There are so many diseases in poor countries that foreign aid can't cure them all.

Answer Key

This cartoon is copyrighted by Jeff Parker, Florida Today, July 22, 2004
Reprinted with permission through Politicalcartoons.com, November 1, 2004