Peace-be still

Pathetic!

I recently came across the following quote on blogswana blogsite which I thought was so pathetic to say the least!:
"In a very significant way, we (the west) don’t consider people in the third-world to be real people. Their problems exist as abstractions, always behind the comfortable barrier of the TV screen or the printed page. We don’t empathise with their problems because we don’t know these people. They don’t seem real to us, so their suffering does not feel real. What we need to do is make these people seem more real. It’s the only way to affect our gut responses".

Never in my entire life have I been exposed to so much ignorance. This is really pathetic and if there is indeed some truth to this quote, then really, the west should be ashamed of themselves. This kind of ignorance cannot be excused! How can the west not consider people in the third world as real people? who is the west anyway to think that what they think of other people is what should be considered normal and right?

posted by PT @ 12:08 AM