Originally Posted by
Phileas Fogg
Well don't think for one minute that the Filipinos are going to be holding remembrance services or indeed giving one hoot for any rescuers in weeks, months or years from now.
Just Goggle for the lootings of Gaisano and/or Robinsons in Tacloban, many have probably perished whilst their relatives and friends have pre-occupied themselves stealing from shops.
There are numerous collections going on hereabouts, some may make it to the stricken whilst others will make it as far as someones back pocket, I was only discussing with my Filipina partner yesterday that had we been stricken by the typhoon, and indeed we had a narrow escape, would these people be doing anything for me and we agreed that the answer would be "no" purely based on my (white) skin colour.
Racism survives and prospers well here in the Philippines and if D.C. thinks that in the future he might receive a similar welcome to the he received in Libya then he's got another thing coming!!!
So your response to a humanitarian disaster is:
1. Will they hold rememberance day services for HM Forces.
2. Would they help me.
Thankfully the majority of folk in the UK, including those that govern and ultimately decide how deploy our wealth and resources to help fellow humans in need, live by a different credo than you.