A Singer Called Her Home Country Guyana "Poor" on US Television

This is a story I came across yesterday. A singer name Lisa Punch qualified to the second round on an American show call Rising Star. I didn't even know this show was on, which tells you just how remove I am from programs shown on television in my own country of America. Anyway, she said to the judges that Guyana is a very beautiful country, but also poor. This is why her family moved to America because her grandmother wanted a better life for them. I can understand some of the criticism on social media as there can be widespread and small minded perceptions of a country some people never visited.

Some people came to her defense and I particularly liked Andrew Kendall's comment when he stated, "As Guyana loses its talented youths to greener pastures because of less than ideal planting ground for some aspects of the arts, are those artists bound to take Guyana’s hopes of being a tourist destination into mind and represent it in a way – sometimes with prevarication – that makes it seem an idyllic paradise? Or as artists do we allow them to share their truth despite how far from the ideal it may be?

Lisa Punch has always been praised for her sincerity and authenticity and one wonders how sincere it would have been for her to pretend her journey to Rising Star had been one without incident. Would we have even liked her more then? As an artist, she can do little else but carve a space for herself in the world by telling her own, personal story."

From my viewpoint I felt Lisa was telling her truth and no one else's. As I stated earlier, I can also see how this can come across to other people who felt she generalized an entire country as a whole. Please feel free to share your opinion.

I'm sure where she lives in Brooklyn is considered a poor neighborhood too, to others in Brooklyn

She was being Kind !  :-[

I unnastan we are now on par with Haiti ....

Oh yes! You just can't compare those two countries. They are totally different and I guess that she should be aware of that.

Miss Guyana Lisa Punch wins Miss World Talent competition

               

Miss Guyana Lisa Punch has won the Miss World Talent competition, which guarantees her a place in the final

She was one of 13 contestants in the talent competition.