just my experience
i can only imagine what most people might feel when they can only take ignorance as bliss. not that it is a bad thing at all - it's just being completely oblivious. and it is okay. it's easy to sympathize with 3rd world countries, it's easy to even make fun of them (unfortuanately) but if you think about it...america is the youngest country. if the rest of the world wanted to become just like america is...they can be. look at japan. but places like india, cuba, and my country - the philippines...they are more into preserving their culture and their roots.
when im with people, even friends, and they start pretending to be asian or hindu or if they make fun of any kind of aspect of a country or a person from that country (like having an accent), i know that it is a joke but 1/2 of me feels bad and even angry. i even feel like it's almost racist, even though it was supposed to be a 10 second joke. but, i dunno...i dont really think anyone really will ever understand how passionate i am about issues like these...so i'll just stop now.
i was watching the science of how the tsunami was formed and i looked at a map and realized thailand saved my life. i dont know if anyone of you will ever really look at a map, but since the tsunami hit somalia, the philippines should have def. been hit if thailand had never existed. i could have died that day.
..and realizing that i just need to find ways how to right wrongs. how to tell people who 'hate maryland' or any other part of the nation/or even the nation as a whole that they have absolutely no idea how lucky they are. and that's the reason why im pretty passionate about always trying to be respectly to people and thats the reason why i have all of these long sermonic lj entries. so it really isnt to bore you. i hope everyone out there reads my ljs, but not only that, i hope that everyone who reads my lj's understand where i am coming from. but i've kind of lost faith in all of that. and thats all because of my opening statement - more than likely...Peoples ignorance can in someway be their complete and oblivious bliss.
goodlord, i hope everyone was able to see that. but than again...not everyone was where i was the day the tsunami killed 150,000. i just...i wanna know that people can understand. not to feel bad...but just to know that they're alive.
when im with people, even friends, and they start pretending to be asian or hindu or if they make fun of any kind of aspect of a country or a person from that country (like having an accent), i know that it is a joke but 1/2 of me feels bad and even angry. i even feel like it's almost racist, even though it was supposed to be a 10 second joke. but, i dunno...i dont really think anyone really will ever understand how passionate i am about issues like these...so i'll just stop now.
i was watching the science of how the tsunami was formed and i looked at a map and realized thailand saved my life. i dont know if anyone of you will ever really look at a map, but since the tsunami hit somalia, the philippines should have def. been hit if thailand had never existed. i could have died that day.
..and realizing that i just need to find ways how to right wrongs. how to tell people who 'hate maryland' or any other part of the nation/or even the nation as a whole that they have absolutely no idea how lucky they are. and that's the reason why im pretty passionate about always trying to be respectly to people and thats the reason why i have all of these long sermonic lj entries. so it really isnt to bore you. i hope everyone out there reads my ljs, but not only that, i hope that everyone who reads my lj's understand where i am coming from. but i've kind of lost faith in all of that. and thats all because of my opening statement - more than likely...Peoples ignorance can in someway be their complete and oblivious bliss.
goodlord, i hope everyone was able to see that. but than again...not everyone was where i was the day the tsunami killed 150,000. i just...i wanna know that people can understand. not to feel bad...but just to know that they're alive.