We live in this superfast world yet children in Somalia are dying of hunger. We have friends who like to PLUG THEIR EARS to anything "real" and I'm sorry for them. They figure that if these starving children are FAR AWAY, it doesn't COUNT. We are significantly touched by these incidents in the world; they are REAL to us and we want to help. Our family isn't a citizen of any particular country - we are citizens of the world, and as such.....these starving people are our sisters and brothers.
How does an American or Canadian parent put one's child to sleep at night without thinking of a Somalian child? Have Westerners become so callous that they only care about their private little world and interests?
This is one BIG problem we have living in USA. When I lived in Sri Lanka - to me it seemed to be the centre of the UNIVERSE and all else "earth" revolved around it. Here in USA - there are SO MANY people who feel "insulated & isolated" about their earthly neighbours. So MANY Americans feel "hey - that's a world away - it doesn't affect me!"...so they just close off the "rest of the world" and pretend it doesn't exist. So people carry on with their daily routines and passtimes and ignore many of the things going on in the REAL world. They look the other way.
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