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Poverty, starvation, and homelessness; these are three of the nation’s biggest problems. Britney Spears, Kanye West, and Jennifer Aniston; these are three names that everyone in America knows, no matter who or where you are. The difference in the two very different subjects is the fact that the nation focuses on the second more than the first.

Monday morning, day after Video Music Awards. “Oh my god, did you hear about Kanye West and Taylor Swift?” A reply from somewhere across the way. “No, what happened?” My head is ringing with immature freshman babble as I make my way through the café, pondering a quick fix for breakfast. As I fight my way through the crowd to snatch a booth seat close to the window, I over hear another pointless conversation. “Beyonce’s dress sucked last night!” “I know right, it could have been a different color or something.” Disgusted, I throw my half eaten cereal bowl away, and set out to class. With my head, still ringing.

It is just so ridiculous the way we pine over celebrities, and what they are doing. Shouldn’t we as Americans know what [else] is going on in the world?

Right now, as we speak the war is being fought in Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan, etc. People are losing lives everyday in the name of religion, and in the fight for our country. And what is it that we are focused on; what Kanye West did at the Video Music Awards to Taylor Swift. Seriously…am I the only one who is seeing the bigger picture here? Instead of fighting hunger, we are fighting over a Hannah Montana concert ticket.

After saying that the Sudan region is no longer at war, the UN Commander announced that the militia government fighting broke out again in Darfur on September 21, 2009.

The free healthcare program for all Americans as promised by Obama and his administration, is in shambles.

New Orleans is STILL being rebuilt due to Hurricane Katrina, many are still left homeless.

Carbon cutting measures are being taken to curb global warming. The United States and China have stepped up to fighting climate change.

These are not even half of the things plaguing our nation at this very moment in time. Should we know about them all? No. Should we care about them all? Yes. We should care about the Planet and its many issues because it and always changing everyday.

All I’m saying is there are bigger issues going on in the world that is affecting all of our lives that we should concern us more than what Beyonce wore to the VMA's.

What we have to do is get educated on these things so we are aware!