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[earthcurrent]

The U.S. is a society built on personal materialism and the acquisition of personal comfort. In most developing countries, wherein most of the population are usually living at subsistence level, the focus is not so much on the individual, but rather the communal good. Certainly there are variances, but I question if the troubles in NOLA have

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[trythil]

I wonder, though, whether criminals in Southeast Asia were evacuated in the same haphazard way.

[mistycaldwell]

Although I don't believe it was quite as rosy as Mr. Chinthaka recalls (due to the caste system) I made a comment similar to this earlier to my significant other. In a way it surprises me, but in a more realistic way, it doesn't. I am not going to go into why.

[kthulhu]

It seems like a matter of economics, to me. The tsunami took out a lot of stuff coming in and going back out. There may not have been much to loot (or find, really) outside of damaged, unusable goods. How many Wal-Marts, jewelry shops, pawn shops, and gun stores are there along the Pacific and Indian Ocean coasts, anyhow