been waiting for something like this....

[SHATOUSHKA]

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this story makes me laugh....

second class victims?? since when has there
been a caste system developed for people of
the same atrocity?

i have so much to say on this piece that
i can't even think straight.

its funny how things have been tainted over
the last few days.... these people are more
concerned about their 'treatment' as opposed
to just being fucking thankful they are
alive... or even more, concerned about
rebuilding all that they lost. pathetic.

now i can understand some complaint if
people were being denied food... to the
point that survivors were starving to death.
but this is just ridiculous.

evidently these people do not realize
the amount of destruction that has occured.
evidently they are unaware that thousands
upon thousands are realizing the same fate...

i'm not bitching about what is going on...
i just think its a bit absurd to be complaining
about such trivial matters.

god... its amazing how selfish people can
be... even in the face of a catastrophic
event such as the tsunami... [img]graemlins/sure.gif[/img]

[*Olivia*]

sadly the 'caste' system as you have tagged it,is in evidence, particularly in locations that are tourist haunts

let's not lose sight of people who are standing in the clothes on their backs, having lost everything, including their families, watching the foreigners being taken to their hospitals, schools, etc., being given food and care, while the people who live there are left with nothing and are watching their own country look after foreigners as a priority

put yourself for a moment in Wimol Thongthae's shoes...he's probably never even going to find the bodies of his family and he's watching this going on

as for Jeanette Dombrowe, who has 'lived for years on the Thai island of Koh Payam', her attitude to the country and people she has lived beside, is shocking

it's not funny, it's a reality in this part of the world...sadly so...where abject poverty and luxury resorts live side by side

[*Olivia*]

exactly....to see images like that....and you can find humour in ANYTHING about this???

and yes...what i find the most tragic is that the bodies of these people are left to rot there while the local government and representatives from countries who have lost their nationals, concentrate on finding those few instead

[SHATOUSHKA]

you aren't getting what i'm saying at all

[SHATOUSHKA]

oh its very funny...

its funny that this is the result of capitalism...
the very same economical system we (so freely)
support day-in and day-out...
the very same system that we (so disgustingly)
pride ourselves (and our country) on...

when you stop and consider this 'atrocity'
(in so far as the 'country' giving special treatment
to tourists yadda yadda)... you have to wonder
where it all began....

but thats another tangent i wasn't heading for
in my original post. so back to the original...

its humorous that people, despite all circumstances,
seem to always find something to complain about.

the tsunami was a tragedy, yes... but at what
point do we stop considering the positive and
start to concentrate on the negative?

at what point do we say "thank god i'm alive!"
and stop and say "now where's my share?"

pointing out something you said...

Originally posted by Fiona-A:
let's not lose sight of people who are standing in the clothes on their backs, having lost everything, including their families, watching the foreigners being taken to their hospitals, schools, etc., being given food and care, while the people who live there are left with nothing and are watching their own country look after foreigners as a priority

<font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC, Tahoma">will these same people overthrow their government?

will these same people DEMAND the attention they
deserve by coming together?

what foreign policies are we aware of that
blankets the treatment of tourists? that ushers
their safehaven while disregarding locals?

is it totally by (thai) choice that the foreigners are
being earmarked for special allowances?


let's not forget to point out something mentioned
in the article:

The locals said Friday that they are torn between wanting to help the foreigners, who are the lifeblood of the area's economy, and getting what they can from the relief effort.

<font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC, Tahoma">why are the locals 'torn' between themselves
and the 'lifeblood' of their economy???

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quite frankly... when i see images like this: CLICK CLICK


personally... i see no room to complain....

[Trampis]

I dont know if I get what your saying either Shattzy,but of course I have opinions on the people of this region.

People in Asia dont value life as much as "Westerners".Its evident if the people of Thailand are giving aid first to "white" folks then there own countrymen second.Its not capitalism thats to blame,its culture.

I back this up with what I hear in news reports that despicable souls in the Tsumnami zone are selling orphans into sex slavery.Whne was the last time you heard this going on after a hurricane in Florida?

Asians dont take there lives as seriously as westerners do and thus...they get shited upon by there own kind.

[SHATOUSHKA]

er... you do realize that asians have a culture
so deeply embedded in religion and ethnic bias
-- a culture so much more than we westerners
could ever imagine -- that there seems to be no
other (logical) scapegoat but capitalism/western
politics to explain the immediate ear-marking
and back-turning towards their own kind?