Re: 3rd world vs 1st world
Florin Jurcovici (mailto:fljurcovici@MB.SOROSTM.RO)
Wed, 21 May 1997 19:01:52 +0400
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Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 19:01:52 +0400
From: Florin Jurcovici <mailto:fljurcovici@MB.SOROSTM.RO>
Subject: Re: 3rd world vs 1st world
To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
In my experience, any grown-up, wealthy human is much more sensitive
to the suffering of it's pet (cat or dog, for instance) than to the suffering
of some ugly, dirty child in the street, altough the pet is often not suffering,
but just trying to get attention.
The very simple reason for this kind of acting is that you get rid of the child
in the streat by simply closing the door, but your *dear* pet is every moment with
you in your house, so it's impossible to overlook it.
I think this happens also on a much larger scale. Example: people living on the street,
with no home, no job (not necessarily not wanting a job) in western Europe have a much
better life than many hard-working people in eastern Europe. Who cares about this in
western Europe? Only a very small number of people, not enough to really change things.
I think it's a normal consequence of this that people in less develped countries
do not have very good feelings about western-european or american strangers - altough
it's not happening everywhere.
--
Jurcovici Florin
mailto:fljurcovici@mb.sorostm.ro