It's all over the news - the worst storm in recorded history decimated the Philippines and caused the country calamity like no other. Over 10,000 people dead and more than a couple million affected around the world. This is probably the most publicity the Philippines has gotten since a Manny Pacquiao fight, and it's not the good type of publicity at all. On facebook, all I see are ways "how you can help the Philippines" and "how you can donate money" blah blah. It takes a natural disaster to bring people together, but takes a shred of miscommunication to bring them apart. You want to know the oddest thing? All the people who were advertising these things were fucking Filipino.
Is that a bad thing? Not necessarily, but it shows the root of dismay and ignorance in every culture that walks this Earth. A majority of people only help if they see it's necessary, they're directly effected, or they can relate to it. The Philippines gets destroyed, every Filipino is like "oh my God, did you hear? what can we do?!". Genocide and other mass murders are committed around the world .. not one Filipino bats an eyelash.
This isn't just for Filipinos, but Filipinos have it bad. We are self-ignorant, self-maniacal, self-centered, and a self-absorbed group of people where we think the world is our fucking right and our culture is perfect. Some of us only help when our home country is in danger, yet most of us live in America and all we do is criticize our legal system and how corrupt this side of the planet is. We have lived here for so long, so the least we can do is acknowledge our other home and help this place out as much as our last.
As a human race, we must let go of our boundaries of culture and look at each other as an individual we can relate to, not some person whom we can never trust. This is a fucking forsaken practice that has been overlooked since the dawn of time. If we were so reluctant to help others, then don't help anyone at all. Yet we have to start somewhere, and if this is the start. so be it. But be ready to help every other race and nation as much as you are ready to save your own.
Yeah, if everyone did their fucking part, the world would be better. But if we keep choosing on how to help and who we help, then we would never be able to help ourselves. Treat everyone equally, love everyone equally - make believe every person walking this planet is your home country that just got decimated and you can do some real good. But to the people and organizations that don't discriminate, thank you - you guys are rare.
I'll try hard this time.
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