<story><title>In Zimbabwe, We Don’t Cry for Lions</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/opinion/in-zimbabwe-we-dont-cry-for-lions.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>charlesray</author><text>&amp;gt;Don’t tell us what to do with our animals when you allowed your own mountain lions to be hunted to near extinction in the eastern United States. Don’t bemoan the clear-cutting of our forests when you turned yours into concrete jungles.&lt;p&gt;So don&amp;#x27;t learn from our mistakes, basically?&lt;p&gt;This is among the most ignorant things I have ever read. Terrible article from a person with a terrible mentality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>namecast</author><text>The paragraph before the one you just quoted:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;We Zimbabweans are left shaking our heads, wondering why Americans care more about African animals than about African people.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;And the paragraph directly after:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;And please, don’t offer me condolences about Cecil unless you’re also willing to offer me condolences for villagers killed or left hungry by his brethren, by political violence, or by hunger.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Please don&amp;#x27;t care about the animals in my country more than you care about me and my countrymen&amp;quot; is a reasonable request. I don&amp;#x27;t see anything terrible about it. I&amp;#x27;m not sure why you dropped the surrounding context.</text></comment>
<story><title>In Zimbabwe, We Don’t Cry for Lions</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/opinion/in-zimbabwe-we-dont-cry-for-lions.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>charlesray</author><text>&amp;gt;Don’t tell us what to do with our animals when you allowed your own mountain lions to be hunted to near extinction in the eastern United States. Don’t bemoan the clear-cutting of our forests when you turned yours into concrete jungles.&lt;p&gt;So don&amp;#x27;t learn from our mistakes, basically?&lt;p&gt;This is among the most ignorant things I have ever read. Terrible article from a person with a terrible mentality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>giarc</author><text>I think they are saying &amp;quot;Solve your own problems, don&amp;#x27;t meddle in ours.&amp;quot;</text></comment>