 abailart says: More sad human truth behind the world's 'booming economy'. That is just too sad. 12 yrs old! I hate it that most people in the Philippines think that their family's lack of money is the cause of this. I think it's the lack of values... A lot of Filipinos don't understand that the cause of poverty is the uneven distribution of resources among people. Our system is evidently ineffective. This is why the 'booming economy' only serves the minority who actually get a portion of whatever the country earns. The rest suffer from the widening gap between classes. Prices go up because a few moneyed people can pay. In turn, more and more people become unable to afford what they need. The rich get access to the best of everything while the poor are left without proper nutrition or education-- ... @haraya. I agree with every word of yours. When I clipped this, I thought of trying to edit it so as to leave out all reference to the Philippines, because what you have pointed out is true for the peoples of the world. I wish the solution to poverty were easy as giving money to the poor-- we know that's not the case. Hey abailart, leaving out the truth, no matter how small, won't help so thanks for clipping this.  This insane self-centered reaction by the little girl actually reflects a temper tantrum on steroids. Many other children in the world do not have bicycles, but they do not kill themselves over it. Even poor children can be "spoiled" (a forgotten term that means "ruin") by caving to their demands to get what everyone else has. (You can witness this self-centered insurrection in your typical supermarket). It is possible to be struggling and poor, yet content in having food, clothing and shelter for the day. The early American colonists were poor, yet worked hard,suffered much, but endured and did not commit suicide. Some of us have been in the same situation, and endured. Exactly what I was thinking. I just didn't want to talk about how her parents raised her since I don't know their situation. I never asked for anything as a child but maybe that's because I grew up in a different environment. It's also hard for me to speak because I was taken cared of... I was never hungry and had lots of things.But as far as I see, people in our country these days are exposed to a culture where materialism is of primary importance. I see people on the streets who beg for food yet I constantly wonder where they get the money for make up or to have their hair colored. Big issues are raised in the comments, and it is especially true that we should not forget to think of the young girl and her family context, and you would be cold-hearted not to be sad. The newspaper article used the shoes as headline, but maybe the girl had just reached breaking point, living in a world that seems to be on an orgy of consumerism while she cannpt even get a basic education? And truly it is wonderful that so many families do raise their children against the odds to stand firm, yet we should not be too harsh on those who struggle and don't make it. Because the big issues raised - basically, personal power in the face of dominant cultural powers - seem pretty universal, I thou... — Comment removed by moderator — I hate it that most people in the Philippines think that their family'si absolutely agree with this. "giving some more money to the poor" - to say it simple, is not a relevant enough attitude in order 2 resolve such a complex & intricate situation in human society & human life called - poverty. How to bridge the unbridgable "Gaps" in availability of education, information, knowledge, awareness ... and many more, when they have "settled in" our collective knowing and perpetuate the obvious disparities between classes, cultures, nations, countries and continents in this Life we share ..? How 2 bring a n... Yes, a huge set of questions raised. More practically, though, I think all of us can benefit from using our imagination allied with data to realise the targedy of the hidden underbelly of capitalism's vaunted success. perhaps we may, in day to day affairs, come to see the excluded and downtrodden and disdvantaged not as moral failures hoisted by individual irresponsibility, but as our fellows, our equals to whom circumstance has given a very raw deal> @haraya. I agree with every word of yours. When I clipped this, Ii respect much this attitude of yours abailart. i do believe that the importance of such a specific sad story as this philippine girl, is in our humane capability to connect the emotions such a story brings up in our hearts together with our capacity to expose the principles that lie in such a story in order to better understand & re-vision the reasons 4 those unfortunate events. then, we may better see the way to resolve these so called "inevitable" human ... Clearly it was more than a pair of shoes... |
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