The divisiveness is just horrible and so dangerous!

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Very sadly true. I was most amazed when I went to the Philippines. About 5 months prior they had a big typhoon which caused massive flooding. Mud was about 1.5 meters high in most buildings. There was absolutely no sign of it. They had come together, even people coming from other islands, to rebuild, clean, paint, etc. Yet in the US years later the areas hit by Katrina remain devastated.

Well it’s also a difference in cultures period. Americans are a very “me” culture. We clear out stores because we all want to get things for “our” family and no one else. We are not a society that is social we are democratic. Heaven forbid we care for each other! No way man! We watch out for “me!” Those who have will have and those who don’t will die. I can imagine you saw a huge difference.

You can really tell the difference when you’re in a culture that doesn’t live off fear. We noticed it in Mexico with the last hurricane. I’ve seen how people respond in America leaving stores with bare shelves, etc. Here it was such a nonevent. Even many of the American expats here were freaking out when it was just a warning (and the storm was DAYS away), while those of us who have been living in Latin America for a while just shrugged and said “We’ll see.”

Isn’t it funny how fear rules governments too? So many people and all so afraid? Imagine how different the world could be if people could just let go… gosh, I think John Lennon had a song kinda like that, didn’t he? 😉

Luckily I experienced other cultures at a young enough age that I’ve never bought into the typical American ethnocentrism. So many countries have such an edge on us, and so many cultures are far more community and family minded that it’s rather funny to hear people say how America is the greatest country in the world. No, it really isn’t. Yes, it is a wonderful country and has many wonderful things about it, and I’m often quite grateful that I was born there, but there are MANY absolutely wonderful countries.

I’ve seen it already traveling and not just with the fear thing but with many things. Americans think everything we have is the best yet many things in Europe are awesome and Americans know nothing about them. Heaven forbid anybody be ahead of us in anything! Of course our own government would never tell us this either because it would show a lacking on their part, therefore confidence would fall and we’d all abandon ship and flee, right? Wrong, but they must think that, thus they feed us a line of crap and keep us in the dark.

I love traveling ~ I feel much more enlightened suddenly. 🙂