Third World Countries Need Our Help
Imagine our country is in great devastation, and there is barely any water for the majority of us due to the current global warming crisis. Our country is undeveloped and not a single person watching chooses to take concern over our dying nation. How would we feel? We would be scared and anxious about the near future. Unfortunately, this is how many third world countries feel today. Currently, they may not be at their highest points of development, but they all still deserve basic human rights. Now with western countries dominating the world through different government systems, equal attention is not provided to the eastern, third world countries. The fact is, places like Syria and India are in devastation …show more content…
For example, the ISIS attack in Paris was a tragic event that was noted by everyone throughout the media. Even Barack Obama mentioned that it was an attack “on all of humanity and the universal values we share.” It makes sense for such a crisis to be spread worldwide, but what is confusing is that soon after, there was a similar ISIS attack in Beirut, Lebanon, yet it was barely noticed by the west. Even though the people behind the attacks were the same, there was only little immediate aid or sympathy for those who had lost their lives. Anna Lekas Miller, a news writer who lives and works in Beirut asks, “why is violence in one part of the world barely worth news coverage, while violence in another is collectively mourned?”(Anna Lekas Miller). This is not right by any kind of moral standard. It is not just about Beirut either, what about the continuous attacks that occur in Syria and Iraq? This is what we need to focus on, to be attentive about. The morality article ties deeply into this matter of subject because it relates to how morality is a concept easily learned, but is not used enough in the real world. It is understandable that one pays more attention to what happens under their own roof, rather than their neighbor’s, but that does not provide a sufficient reason to completely ignore a conflict occurring in another’s society. As stated in the article, our developed countries know these moralities by heart, yet we still continue to disregard them when it comes to helping others because we insist on elevating self
Imagine our country is in great devastation, and there is barely any water for the majority of us due to the current global warming crisis. Our country is undeveloped and not a single person watching chooses to take concern over our dying nation. How would we feel? We would be scared and anxious about the near future. Unfortunately, this is how many third world countries feel today. Currently, they may not be at their highest points of development, but they all still deserve basic human rights. Now with western countries dominating the world through different government systems, equal attention is not provided to the eastern, third world countries. The fact is, places like Syria and India are in devastation …show more content…
For example, the ISIS attack in Paris was a tragic event that was noted by everyone throughout the media. Even Barack Obama mentioned that it was an attack “on all of humanity and the universal values we share.” It makes sense for such a crisis to be spread worldwide, but what is confusing is that soon after, there was a similar ISIS attack in Beirut, Lebanon, yet it was barely noticed by the west. Even though the people behind the attacks were the same, there was only little immediate aid or sympathy for those who had lost their lives. Anna Lekas Miller, a news writer who lives and works in Beirut asks, “why is violence in one part of the world barely worth news coverage, while violence in another is collectively mourned?”(Anna Lekas Miller). This is not right by any kind of moral standard. It is not just about Beirut either, what about the continuous attacks that occur in Syria and Iraq? This is what we need to focus on, to be attentive about. The morality article ties deeply into this matter of subject because it relates to how morality is a concept easily learned, but is not used enough in the real world. It is understandable that one pays more attention to what happens under their own roof, rather than their neighbor’s, but that does not provide a sufficient reason to completely ignore a conflict occurring in another’s society. As stated in the article, our developed countries know these moralities by heart, yet we still continue to disregard them when it comes to helping others because we insist on elevating self