今天教学楼门口摆了一个募捐箱，让我们给印度洋海啸灾区捐钱，我很严肃地说?凭什么呀？?
我不愿为那个野蛮的民族表现出一点点的人道主义，他们不配
我又想起99年，印尼华人在印尼遭受的虐待，多少华人在印尼被打死，然后暴尸街头，多少华人在印尼被强奸，华人的商店被抢劫，以尼政府对这些暴行给予的是默许！
这世界上怎么还有这么不要脸的民族，居然还好意思接受中国的援助！恶心至极！
中国人也真有钱，我们的西部还没开发，我们还有两千万贫困人口没有解决温饱问题，我们还没为自己国家捐钱，为什么要去管别人家的事情？
新闻里有个老太太，含着眼泪说：?我们自己家要是有个亲人离开我们，我们该多难受，更何况这十几万人。?
如此高的觉悟。
我又想到我们国家的福利院，养老院，还有那些拿政府救济金，只有钱吃饭，没有钱看病，受病魔折磨的老人和残疾人，还有的，依旧是那两千万吃不饱肚子的中国人！
我们的觉悟哪去了？面对我们同一种族，流着同一脉血的同胞，我们的觉悟哪去了？
看到那些募捐活动，我越来越觉得可笑，我们是不是把钱财塞到敌人的腰包，为敌人擦干鲜血，等着他们再拿起刺刀？
(It's okay if you can't read Chinese) This is from Zoe's blog where she expressed her scornful attitude towards the
Tsunami catastrophe happened in South Asia. Zoe was one of my best friends in China, and is still very close to me, we went to the same middle school together in Beijing - she wrote that in our school there is a box set up for the donations to help the people and the countries affected by the disaster and she thought that it is rather ridiculous because around year 1998 and 1999, Chinese people in Indonesia were outrageously killed, raped, humiliated; their houses were burned, possessions were sabotaged, even the corpse were just left out on the streets. This humiliating
enormity out of racial discrimination is never to be forgotten but now, the natural disastrous occurrence happened in Indonesia and there're so many compassionate people in China trying to help and some of them are crying with heart-felt tears saying how sorrowful they are and how bad they feel with the people at the affected areas - while China itself needs donations from its own people considering how many people are in hunger and are homeless...
I so sympathize with her. No intentional biased opinions, but Chinese people are a little too benevolently kind (gentle, warm-hearted, whatever word you wanna use) sometimes; I mean, you never see Chinese troops invading other countries, it's always China who's being invaded (by the Eight Power Allied Force, Japan, etc...)
; Chinese people don't usually discriminate against other races to the point they start killing them, but they are always the ones being targeted (the famous -rather, infamous - holocaust of Nanjing by the Japanese, the Indonesians, etc..); and now when Chinese people themselves are starving to hunger, they are trying to help others. Of course, "benevolent", "kind", are complimentary words, but words like "cowardly","recreant" also imply the same idea. Sometimes Chinese people are just so pathetically cravenhearted - it is understandable that under the Confucius teaching, people are supposed to be nice to each other and try to help as much as they can; but at least we should have our own pride and a clear mind of what self-respect is, as well as whom we should honour and how to honour them.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying we should just let the people who lost their families, their homes, their whole world starve to death; I do express my deep condolences to the individuals who, as mentioned above, are the victims of such unfortunate event. However, they should just stop being such babies and stop sitting on their butts pleading for help. Recall the
Tangshan earthquake which was as horrendous as the tsunami that happened in 1976 in China, 242,419 people died alone; and combined the five major affected countries' death statistics, how many people died in the tsunami? Now maybe around 180,000? And who kindly helped the Chinese people? No one. Who cried for the Chinese people other than themselves? No one. Who pleaded for donations internationally? No one. Who supplied clothing, $$, equipments? No one. (due to the isolation advocated by the States and other European countries who held disparate political stance again the Chinese communism, and for their own benefit to not to recognize the new P.R.China) Chinese people stood on themselves, self-dependently survived this natural disaster which appears to be much worse than the tsunami in terms of the death toll. Just because the affected countries are places where major Western tourists go, so it is deemed as "probably
the most horrible natural catastrophe that had ever happened to mankind" (I didn't make this up, I've heard people say that) ? What a paradox. To not to confuse you, I am just saying that yes, they deserve the help, but there is a limit - now it just seems like it's everything we all talk about, everything news media reports. It is unfortunate that it happened, and my thoughts are with them (again, the
individuals, not the race as a whole); but it did happen and so adapt to it and live it, start working on rebuilding your homes and stop making yourselves sound so hopeless and helpless.
There, you see, I'm mean sometimes. But I dunno, half of the time I'm confused myself - but I suppose having an opinion is better than not having one. I'm pretty sure there're many counter arguments to my points mentioned, and I'm also pretty sure that my opinions are biased. So be it, 'cuz I'm quite sure the counter arguments are biased too, more or less. I just had to let it out, so I can selfishly feel better. =)