Every year The Goldman Sachs Foundation and Asia Society recognize US high school students that demonstrate in-depth understanding of key issues in international affairs. Sarah from Westlake Village, CA is one of the 2008 winners of a $10000 scholarship. She created a video comparing her life and those of her peers with people she met in Nepal, finding different definitions of necessity, wealth, and happiness. Sarahs video included footage she shot while in Nepal with a media team documenting human rights issues and the recent historic elections. While there, she filmed an interview with the rebel leader at the time, Prachanda, who has since become the Prime Minister of Nepal. Sarah has also completed video projects for her local symphony orchestra and continues to follow the evolving political situation in Nepal. For more information on the prize, check out askasia.org
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25-Jul-2010
Namaste: One Teen’s Look at Nepal
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ur river looks like a swimming pool. i get what she’s tryin to say but jus sayin
The only thing i hate about Nepal is its politics …
Namaste at first to you and Thanx a lot for your timing to Nepal.
But, I swear that Nepal is such a Extra-ordinary place in this world.
Though, the sad thing is that , it is really Poor and we all need to Help Nepal to make it a better place.
hi frn..!
my name is suman, im from nepal but im currently livin in uk for past 3 yrs . ur vedio stoped me to say some thing inreturn.. we all neplese been livin in nepal fo all our life and even we wouldnt hav fractionise the meenings that u did the word nameste to me was just like just a word to greet my elds or guest but when u explained the real meanin it constantly knoced my brain and now i know the real meanin behind it/ thank u fo so much from all neplese. bles u.
This video make me love my Country More.
i’ll go back…..to mix with my men, to see my women laugh, to build a nation…to where I belong.
I respect for the amount of time and energy you have spend in producing this incredible video. Most of the things you have said in the video is very true. The country United States provides so much to its citizens that many people this generation feels has nothing offer to this country and therefore just waste the wealth and resources that the government provide them.
‘I bow to the…yadda yadda ya’
funny I’ve never before heard of that explanation.
@dudekaus To be able to help others, we need to stand on our own two feet first, I am still an undergraduate trying to make myself a future, I am sure you guys have waited for the right time to carry out this venture of building school in Gorkha, That is a commendable effort. I really wish you all success! But be assured that I am not a person of empty promises and hopes, I am just a young aspirer who is very willing to make a contribution when the time is right.
Good luck again.
@diliprai yes I am aware of my history, I do not say I know it all. I know the cruel act of India, A commonly accepted definition of politics is the struggle for power, and power corrupts people. But has the Indians tied your hand? Can’t you go back to Nepal and teach, help, give, contribute? Can you not get stuck in history and think of today as a brand New day? My Rana friend thinks the way his forefather misguide the nation is wrong, but lets bring change at our own level. Can’t we?
@TaurusAlpha Buddha said: 1. Life is suffering. 2. Suffering comes because of our false attachment to thing. 3. There is a way to end suffering, and to do this…… (my friend if you are interested read the four nobelfold path by a good Buddhist scholar.)
@anoozp yes…if you look it up in scriptures it is loosely translated to “I salute to your divinity,” its amazing, isn’t it and we take it for granted.
That is for close to 200 years, among the 37 chiefs of staff, 26 came from the Rana family and the remaining 11 from the Thapa, Shah and Basnet clans who are all Hindu Brahmin and Chettri. The other group especially the indigenous people of Mongoloid ethnicity were never given equal opportunities in running of Nepal.
So before you speak why Nepal is what is today, ponder yourself and study the Nepal history first.
Thanks
@dudekaus Nepal became one of the poorest counties because the Hindu shah-rana government discriminated the indigenous communities. The shah-rana rulers made Nepal as a tool for making money for them but not for the nation. For example according to Deepak Bhatt of Combat Law, the top position of the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) remained with only four clans.
@MrRijal1234 I love it. She is a high school girl, I am guess you are undergrad or grad student. Ask yourself who has the better capacity to understand and solve the problems in Nepal, yes Sarah can help, no question but will you join hands with her? You should instead ask, “Sarah, how can I help you?” Please think, if my argument makes sense at all…
@RagavM well the unemployment rate is 46% in 2008, so its almost half the Nepal. And with all those ‘fucking’ words are you trying to say that no we don’t make $1 a day but $4. Dude get the point, $1 or $4, it extremely low. And yes one thing is Nepal is not technically a ‘Third world country,’ but the distinction between third world and developing country almost blurred, which a student of political economy would tell you, there are significant differences. Learn to love and respect, not hate.
@cnara29 true the average Nepali do not make $1 a day, but its about $3 or $5 depending on whether you bring purchasing power parity in the calculation of GDP. But Sarah was making a good argument about the ‘misleading’ values of the American highly driven by media. I think she does a good job, you should understand that you have lived in Nepal for 20 years and she most probably for a month. Her lenses via. which she sees Nepal are entirely different than yours.
@dudekaus watch this video “Comedy Show Jay Hind! From Nepal Without Love”
and
“India displacing Nepalese from their own land”
now you tell me why is India always disrespecting Nepal and the Nepalese.
Indian also claims Buddha born in India and Mt. Everest is in India.
@diliprai Yes blame India, blame politician, blame ignorance, blame poverty, blame everyone, and when you will run out of things to blame, my friend you will blame yourself. In the 60′s the foreign aids from US to Nepal was substantially scaled back because of lack of its effectiveness. Another fact, Nepal gets the most foreign aid per capita in the whole of South Asia region, we couldn’t make use of that. Now my friend you will blame the politicians, stop the blaming game, ACT.
@shangrila628 whoever you are, you have good things to say, like most Nepalese I meet in the west. They all care, they all want change, but with the fourth most brain drained nation, all i have heard is empty promises of change. Me and my friend are going Nepal this summer to build a school in Gorkha this summer, if you really mean what you say, I invite you to join us, put our energies together and give back. I challenge you to act, are you willing to be the force of change that you want?
Blame India for all the social problems in Nepal.
I’ve got many friends from Nepal and have heard many terrible stories about the Maoists. I don’t like the Communists in my country, but at least they aren’t doing the awful things I hear about in Nepal, especially in the more rural areas.
love this vdo with ur sweet voice n those lovely word..
i strongly agree wat u say about nepal.
Not only about the poorness, living life or sharing feelings… its about searching the real life, we can not be happy even though we have everything……… its good that we(the people in Nepal) do not have everything, so that we can say its fine to be poor, to be jobless, to live in the third world, but the world can learn the meaning of greeting to the life, being happy with nothing……
you reached the place, learned a lot, saw the life,,,,,
wishesss
dude im a nepali…nd we are poor…one of the poorest in the world…and for the purposes of this video…it is totally correct….she knows tht not all of us earn less than a $ a day