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[jadey_mcshadey]

Somewhere in the region of 1200 people died as a result of Hurricane Katrina.

40000 (yes, that says fourty thousand) people died, with more bodies being recovered, in an earthquake in Pakistan this week and there was not one word about it on my friends page.

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Where's the Etsy store? Where are the people offering % of sales to victims? If it's

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[buckylea]

me and tim were talking about that last night. i'm not anti-america but it's very noticeable isn't it?

[jadey_mcshadey]

It's not just America, it's us too and it's a disgrace. So many children died (not that it's worse than adults, but you know) and it hasn't even created a ripple. I can't even conceive of fourty thousand people and when you consider the poverty and the infrastructure in the country, it's just unbelievable. I cried when I saw on the news last night about a school that was destroyed.

[buckylea]

oh i only mentioned america because the examples you used were both america. but yeah, we're definitely into the whole apathy thing as a nation.
though now that i think about it, i did see on the news that the govt has pledged $5million... i think that was the figure. and there were numbers for Red Cross and WorldVision donations. so it hasn't completely gone without attention in Australia.

[jadey_mcshadey]

I know what you mean. I'm just comparing it to Katrina because she was HUGE on my friends page, everyone was talking about it, saying what they were doing, what they were donating. I don't know if you saw it, but someone organised this thing where crafters donated items for a Katrina appeal and they raised thousands, but no one at all has mentioned the earthquake.

I'm sure that people have donated and stuff, I just think it's interesting that it's not been mentioned once on my friends list. I mean, loads of people have that biblical thing of donating in secret but all of the people that were so vocal about Katrina are notably silent now.

I just read it as people not caring about things that don't directly affect them.

[filmnikita]

I know Bush has pledged a large amount to Pakistan, but as far as grass roots fundraising... well, I think America is still trying to recover from Katrina. We donated after the tsunami, but we've just had our own disaster and there are still thousands misplaced and fucked, cities destroyed, industry affected. So perhaps there are average Joe's donating to Red Cross for Pakistan, but I think we are still trying to fix our own problems.

[onyxmoon]

I heard about the school and that made me extremely sad. I rarely mention big stuff like that in my LJ (I don't think I even mentioned Katrina) because I usually discuss it at school and especially in my political science class ~ so I'm typically talked-out when I sit down to type up an LJ entry. Once my school gives info about donating clothes, etc, I usually hop to it.
But yeah when I heard the news (slightly belated, but any news I hear is often belated) people were asking me, "Asia? I thought Pakistan was in the middle east! Where is Pakistan? Why are they saying India?"
I had to explain that "middle east" was not a continent unto itself ~.~"

[hit_the_gas]

I actually didn't know anything about it - such is the rampant confusion of an afternoon shifter. (I didn't even know there were more bombings in Bali until the Monday after it happened).

[jadey_mcshadey]

I'm usually the same way. I don't watch tv so I get most of my news from the internet or the paper when I bother to read it.

[kat_penguino]

I seriously didn't even know about the earthquake until I read your post just now. If I actually sold things on my site I would donate money.

[jadey_mcshadey]

This post certainly wasn't directed at you, it was more about people in the communities being notably quiet. Plus, I was ill and cranky.