A few days ago I watched the BBC Breakfast show and they reported that the UK Government increases the money they spend for Human aid and a lot of people responded to that report that they completely disagree with the government decission in this matter as the UK citizens have to face a lot of cuts in the welfare system and in many other things so they think in this hard times that we face we should not give any more human aid.
I was really shocked about that response, well its true that we face a lot of cuts here in the UK but still no one here will starve or will be homeless unless they choose it to be, we still will have a welfare system which will let the poorest have their dinner on the table and pay for their housing and help them with other daily needs.
I'm itself not british but german and have lived also in the Netherlands and I have to say that still the UK system is a very good one and people don't have to suffer here. I should not forget to mention the free medical treatment through the NHS, which I experienced as really good comparing to the dutch system for example.
We always should bare in mind that there are people outside who don't know what to eat today or tomorrow or the rest of the week, who don't have even clean water to drink or in many cases don't have water at all, people who have to sleep rough and people who die from causes which are just unnecessary and which would be easy to prevent with a little bit of help.
It is really really sad that people can't give a little bit up from their money to help the poorest in this world who don't even have the essential things in life such as food and water so here the question came into my mind: how human are we humans actually??????
Unfortunately, the normal British response to a lot of these things is "bloody foreigners, comin' over here - taking our jobs!". Its purile and stupid.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you, in comparison to other countries, there are barely any people in Britain who go without enough food or water. This is not the case in countries such as Nigeria, India and Pakistan.
National boundaries are not explicit, they are man-made and people getting worried that money is passing over these boundaries is short sighted and xenophobic. There is nothing stopping us passing our wealth out, other than our own greed.
An excellent blog, thankyou for posting! Nice one Maria.